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University named after Zhumabek Akhmetuly Tashenov

Акционерное общество "Университет имени Жумабека Ахметулы Ташенева"

Private · Shymkent

Students

17,691

From abroad

0.6%

98 students

Taught in English

0.4%

On a state grant

2.5%

17,244 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's16,642 · 94.1%
  • Master's1,049 · 5.9%

By language of instruction

  • Kazakh16,894 · 95.5%
  • Russian733 · 4.1%
  • English64 · 0.4%

Graduates recorded, 2025

7,587

Graduates recorded, 2026

4,329

Teaching staff

516

33 from abroad

Fields taught (33 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
  • 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
  • B021Singing arts
  • B031Fashion design
  • B043Library science, information processing and archival studies
  • B044Management and administration
  • B045Auditing and taxation
  • B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
  • B049Law
  • B050Biological and related sciences
  • B057Information technologies

Master's

  • M001Pedagogy and psychology
  • M003Teacher training without subject specialization
  • M016Teacher training in history
  • M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
  • M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
  • M019Teacher training in foreign language
  • M070Economics
  • M071State and local government

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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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