M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University
Акционерное общество «Университет КАЗГЮУ имени М.С. Нарикбаева»
Joint-stock university (corporatised) · Astana
Students
8,441
From abroad
2.9%
244 students
Taught in English
62.6%
On a state grant
33.1%
5,628 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's7,524 · 89.1%
- Master's843 · 10.0%
- Doctoral74 · 0.9%
By language of instruction
- English5,283 · 62.6%
- Russian1,554 · 18.4%
- Kazakh692 · 8.2%
Graduates recorded, 2025
1,010
Graduates recorded, 2026
1,489
Teaching staff
402
21 from abroad
Fields taught (23 programme groups)
The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.
Bachelor's
- B036Translation studies
- B037Philology
- B041Psychology
- B042Journalism and reporting studies
- B044Management and administration
- B045Auditing and taxation
- B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
- B047Marketing and advertizing
- B049Law
- B057Information technologies
- B091Tourism
- B140International relations and diplomacy
Master's
- M056Translation studies, simultaneous interpretation
- M059Foreign philology
- M064International relations
- M066Psychology
- M070Economics
- M072Management
- M074Finance, banking and insurance
- M078Law
Doctoral
- D070Economics
- 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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