West Kazakhstan Marat Ospanov Medical University
Некоммерческое акционерное общество "Западно-Казахстанский медицинский университет имени Марата Оспанова"
State university · Aktobe Region
Students
8,058
From abroad
13.8%
1,112 students
Taught in English
13.6%
On a state grant
30.2%
5,627 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's6,025 · 74.8%
- Residency & internship1,854 · 23.0%
- Master's97 · 1.2%
- Doctoral82 · 1.0%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh5,323 · 66.1%
- Russian1,640 · 20.4%
- English1,095 · 13.6%
Graduates recorded, 2025
1,408
Graduates recorded, 2026
1,901
Teaching staff
793
1 from abroad
Fields taught (62 programme groups)
The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.
Bachelor's
- B084Nursing
- B085Pharmacy
- B086General medicine
- B087Dentistry
- B089Public health
- BM086Medicine
- BM087Dentistry
- BM088Pediatrics
- BM089Preventive medicine
Master's
- M139Healthcare management
- M140Public Health
- M141Nursing
- M142Pharmacy
- M143Biomedicine
- M144Medicine
- M145Preventive medicine
Doctoral
- D139Public health
- D141Medicine
- D151Nursing science
Medical residency
- R001Adult, children's cardiology
- R002Adult, children's rheumatology
- R003Allergology and immunology for adults, children
- R004Adult, children's gastroenterology
- R005Adult hematology
- R006Children's oncology and hematology
- R007Adult, children's pulmonology
- R008Endocrinology for adults, children
- R009Nephrology for adults, children
- R011Infectious diseases for adults, children
- R012Dermatovenereology for adults, children
- R013Psychiatry for adults and children
- R014Radiology
- R017Anesthesiology and resuscitation for adults, children
- R018Adult, children's cardiac surgery
- R020Neurosurgery for adults, children
- R021Maxillofacial surgery for adults, children
- R022Plastic surgery for adults, children
- R023Pediatric surgery
- R024Adult oncology
- R025Traumatology-orthopedics for adults and children
- R026Urology and andrology for adults, children
- R027Ophthalmology for adults, children
- R028Otorhinolaryngology for adults, children
- R030Pediatrics
- R031Neonatology
- R032Obstetrics and gynecology for adults, children
- R033Medical genetics
- R034Forensic-medical expertise
- R036General surgery
- R037Adult, children's neurology
- R038Family medicine
- R039Therapy
- R040Physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults, children
- R041Emergency medicine for adults, children
- R042Clinical pharmacology
- R044Surgical dentistry
- R045Orthopedic dentistry
- R046Pediatric dentistry
- R047Orthodontics
- R048Clinical laboratory diagnostics
- R050Pathological anatomy
- R051Phthisiology (adult, children's)
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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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