South Kazakhstan Pedagogical University named after Ozbekali Zhanibekov

некоммерческое акционерное общество "Южно-Казахстанский педагогический университет имени Өзбекәлі Жәнібеков"

State university · Shymkent

Students

8,429

From abroad

2.0%

170 students

Taught in English

0.0%

On a state grant

37.3%

5,278 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's7,707 · 91.4%
Master's569 · 6.8%
Doctoral153 · 1.8%

By language of instruction

Kazakh7,081 · 84.0%
Russian771 · 9.1%
English1 · 0.0%

Graduates recorded, 2025

1,936

Graduates recorded, 2026

2,286

Teaching staff

467

1 from abroad

Fields taught (56 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
B004Teacher training in basic military training
B005Teacher training in physical education
B006Teacher training in music
B007Teacher training in artistic production and technical drawing
B008Teacher training in fundamentals of law and economics
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
B020Special pedagogy
B031Fashion design
B036Translation studies
B037Philology
B050Biological and related sciences

Master's

M002Pre-school education and upbringing
M003Teacher training without subject specialization
M004Teacher training in basic military training
M005Teacher training in physical education
M006Teacher training in music
M007Teacher training in arts, graphics and design
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
M016Teacher training in history
M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
M019Teacher training in foreign language
M021Special pedagogy
M035Fashion, design

Doctoral

D003Teacher training without subject specialization
D006Teacher training in music
D007Teacher training in artistic production, graphics and design
D009Fundamentals of law and economics
D010Teacher training in mathematics
D011Teacher training in physics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
D012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
D013Teacher training in chemistry (Kazakh, Russian, English)
D014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
D015Teacher training in geography
D016Teacher training in history
D017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
D018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
D019Teacher training in foreign languages

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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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