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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