West Kazakhstan University named after Makhambet Utemisov

Некоммерческое акционерное общество "Западно-Казахстанский университет имени Махамбета Утемисова"

State university · West Kazakhstan Region

Students

7,246

From abroad

0.8%

58 students

Taught in English

0.4%

On a state grant

36.6%

4,590 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's6,930 · 95.6%
Master's314 · 4.3%
Doctoral2 · 0.0%

By language of instruction

Kazakh5,762 · 79.5%
Russian1,453 · 20.1%
English31 · 0.4%

Graduates recorded, 2025

1,700

Graduates recorded, 2026

1,713

Teaching staff

418

18 from abroad

Fields taught (63 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
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
B021Singing arts
B027Performing Arts
B028Choreography
B031Fashion design
B034History
B037Philology
B038Sociology
B040Political science
B041Psychology
B043Library science, information processing and archival studies
B044Management and administration
B045Auditing and taxation
B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
B047Marketing and advertizing
B049Law
B051Environment
B052Earth Science
B053Chemistry
B057Information technologies
B091Tourism
B092Leisure
B140International relations and diplomacy

Master's

M001Pedagogy and psychology
M003Teacher training without subject specialization
M005Teacher training in physical education
M006Teacher training in music
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
M035Fashion, design
M053History
M064International relations
M066Psychology
M070Economics
M071State and local government
M072Management
M080Biology

Doctoral

D080Biology

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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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