South Kazakhstan Medical Academy

Акционерное общество «Южно-Казахстанская медицинская академия»

Joint-stock university (corporatised) · academy · Shymkent

Students

6,031

From abroad

21.0%

1,266 students

Taught in English

20.8%

On a state grant

19.7%

4,840 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's5,101 · 84.6%
Residency & internship843 · 14.0%
Master's47 · 0.8%
Doctoral40 · 0.7%

By language of instruction

Kazakh3,680 · 61.0%
English1,252 · 20.8%
Russian1,099 · 18.2%

Graduates recorded, 2025

928

Graduates recorded, 2026

1,225

Teaching staff

477

7 from abroad

Fields taught (44 programme groups)

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

Bachelor's

B072Pharmaceutical production technology
B084Nursing
B085Pharmacy
B086General medicine
B087Dentistry
B088Pediatrics
B089Public health
BM086Medicine
BM087Dentistry
BM088Pediatrics
BM089Preventive medicine

Master's

M140Public Health
M141Nursing
M142Pharmacy
M144Medicine

Doctoral

D139Public health
D140Pharmacy
D141Medicine

Medical residency

R001Adult, children's cardiology
R002Adult, children's rheumatology
R003Allergology and immunology for adults, children
R004Adult, children's gastroenterology
R007Adult, children's pulmonology
R008Endocrinology for adults, children
R009Nephrology for adults, children
R011Infectious diseases for adults, children
R014Radiology
R015Radiation oncology
R017Anesthesiology and resuscitation for adults, children
R020Neurosurgery for adults, children
R023Pediatric surgery
R024Adult oncology
R025Traumatology-orthopedics for adults and children
R026Urology and andrology for adults, children
R028Otorhinolaryngology for adults, children
R030Pediatrics
R031Neonatology
R032Obstetrics and gynecology for adults, children
R036General surgery
R037Adult, children's neurology
R038Family medicine
R039Therapy
R040Physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults, children
R042Clinical pharmacology

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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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