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Kazakhstan-American Free University

Товарищество с ограниченной ответственностью "Казахстанско-Американский Свободный Университет"

Private · East Kazakhstan Region

Students

4,409

From abroad

6.9%

306 students

Taught in English

5.5%

On a state grant

4.8%

4,199 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's3,880 · 88.0%
  • Master's508 · 11.5%
  • Doctoral21 · 0.5%

By language of instruction

  • Russian2,519 · 57.1%
  • Kazakh1,648 · 37.4%
  • English242 · 5.5%

Graduates recorded, 2025

1,101

Graduates recorded, 2026

1,622

Teaching staff

130

12 from abroad

Fields taught (28 programme groups)

The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.

Bachelor's

  • B003Pedagogy and primary education methodology
  • B005Teacher training in physical education
  • B016Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
  • B017Teacher training in Russian language and literature
  • B018Teacher training in foreign language
  • B036Translation studies
  • B041Psychology
  • B042Journalism and reporting studies
  • B044Management and administration
  • B045Auditing and taxation
  • B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
  • B049Law
  • B057Information technologies
  • B091Tourism 
  • B093Restaurant business and hotel management
  • B140International relations and diplomacy

Master's

  • M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
  • M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
  • M019Teacher training in foreign language
  • M056Translation studies, simultaneous interpretation
  • M064International relations
  • M066Psychology
  • M072Management
  • M074Finance, banking and insurance
  • M078Law
  • M094Information technologies

Doctoral

  • D072Management and administration
  • D078Law

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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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