Shymkent University
Частное учреждение "Шымкентский Университет"
Private · Shymkent
Students
8,017
From abroad
0.1%
5 students
Taught in English
0.0%
On a state grant
0.0%
7,973 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's6,650 · 82.9%
- Master's1,367 · 17.1%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh7,997 · 99.8%
- Russian17 · 0.2%
- English3 · 0.0%
Graduates recorded, 2025
4,208
Graduates recorded, 2026
3,705
Teaching staff
275
2 from abroad
Fields taught (31 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
- B003Pedagogy and primary education methodology
- B005Teacher training in physical education
- B006Teacher training in music
- 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
- B038Sociology
- B044Management and administration
- B045Auditing and taxation
- B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
- B049Law
- B050Biological and related sciences
- B057Information technologies
Master's
- M001Pedagogy and psychology
- M010Teacher training in mathematics
- M012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M013Teacher training in chemistry (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- M019Teacher training in foreign language
- M072Management
- M073Audit and taxation
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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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