International Taraz University named after Sherkhan Murtaza
Учреждение "Международный Таразский университет имени Шерхана Муртазы"
Private · Jambyl Region
Students
14,575
From abroad
0.9%
136 students
Taught in English
0.0%
On a state grant
2.9%
14,151 paying
Figures are the live counts on the Ministry's higher-education platform (ЕПВО) when we last retrieved them. “State-funded” is students on a state educational grant; the rest pay tuition. “Foreign” is students without Kazakh citizenship. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
By level
- Bachelor's12,086 · 82.9%
- Master's2,166 · 14.9%
- Specialist323 · 2.2%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh13,488 · 92.5%
- Russian1,085 · 7.4%
- English2 · 0.0%
Graduates recorded, 2025
4,064
Graduates recorded, 2026
5,363
Teaching staff
407
6 from abroad
Fields taught (46 programme groups)
The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.
Bachelor's
- B001Pedagogy and psychology
- B002Pre-school education and upbringing
- B003Pedagogy and primary education methodology
- B004Teacher training in basic military training
- B005Teacher training in physical education
- B007Teacher training in artistic production and technical drawing
- B009Teacher training in mathematics
- B010Teacher training in physics
- B011Teacher training in informatics
- B012Teacher training in chemistry
- B013Teacher training in biology
- B014Teacher training in geography
- B015Teacher training in humanitarian subjects
- B016Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- B017Teacher training in Russian language and literature
- B018Teacher training in foreign language
- B044Management and administration
- B045Auditing and taxation
- B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
- B049Law
- B050Biological and related sciences
- B053Chemistry
- B054Physics
- B055Mathematics and statistics
- B057Information technologies
- B076Standardization, certification and metrology (by industries)
- B077Crop production
- B079Forestry
- B080Fisheries
- B083Veterinary
Master's
- M001Pedagogy and psychology
- M005Teacher training in physical education
- M007Teacher training in arts, graphics and design
- M010Teacher training in mathematics
- M012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- M019Teacher training in foreign language
- M053History
- M070Economics
- M071State and local government
- M072Management
- M074Finance, banking and insurance
- M078Law
- M090Physics
- M130Standardization, certification and metrology (by industry)
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Source: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan — Unified Higher Education Platform (ЕПВО), epvo.kz, public statistics. English institution names cleaned by CollegeMatcher.
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