Kokshetau University named after Sh. Ualikhanov

Некоммерческое акционерное общество "Кокшетауский университет имени Ш.Уалиханова"

State university · Akmola Region

Students

8,980

From abroad

4.7%

425 students

Taught in English

4.1%

On a state grant

46.6%

4,797 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's8,306 · 92.5%
Master's448 · 5.0%
Residency & internship144 · 1.6%
Doctoral51 · 0.6%
Specialist31 · 0.3%

By language of instruction

Kazakh5,073 · 56.5%
Russian3,540 · 39.4%
English367 · 4.1%

Graduates recorded, 2025

2,045

Graduates recorded, 2026

2,076

Teaching staff

665

9 from abroad

Fields taught (80 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
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
B019Training of social educators
B031Fashion design
B033Religion and theology
B034History
B036Translation studies
B037Philology
B041Psychology
B042Journalism and reporting studies
B044Management and administration
B045Auditing and taxation
B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
B049Law
B050Biological and related sciences
B051Environment
B053Chemistry
B054Physics
B057Information technologies
B064Mechanics and metal working
B065Transport equipment and technology
B068Food production
B071Mining and mineral extraction
B074Urban planning, construction work and civil engineering
B077Crop production
B078Animal production
B079Forestry
B086General medicine
B089Public health
B091Tourism
B094Sanitary preventive measures
B183Agroengineering
BM086Medicine

Master's

M001Pedagogy and psychology
M002Pre-school education and upbringing
M003Teacher training without subject specialization
M010Teacher training in mathematics
M011Teacher training in physics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
M012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
M013Teacher training in chemistry (Kazakh, Russian, English)
M014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
M015Teacher training in geography
M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
M019Teacher training in foreign language
M053History
M070Economics
M072Management
M074Finance, banking and insurance
M078Law
M080Biology
M082Biotechnology
M087Environmental protection technology
M090Physics
M094Information technologies
M131Crop production
M136Agricultural machinery and technologies
M144Medicine
M147Tourism
M150Sanitary measure

Doctoral

D010Teacher training in mathematics
D019Teacher training in foreign languages
D053History
D060Philology
D087Environmental protection technology
D131Crop production

Medical residency

R001Adult, children's cardiology

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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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