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Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University

Location

Campus 7, Turkestan Kazakhstan

Ranking

# 781-790QS World University Rankings

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34Undergraduate programs

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72Postgraduate programs

International

1133International students

About Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University

Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (hereafter Akhmet Yassawi University) was established in 1991 due to personal initiative of the Head of State, N.A. Nazarbayev and based on the Intergovernmental Agreement between Kazakhstan and Turkey nations to train modern highly qualified specialists from Turkic-speaking countries, within the spiritual center of the Turkic world – Turkestan city, and it became the first university receiving the status of an international institution of higher education.


Akhmet Yassawi University is one of the leading multi-disciplinary universities in Kazakhstan. The university is annually placed in the top ten of the national university rankings (6th place in 2018), as an innovative university that implements modern educational and scientific policies, based on the desire for continuous professional growth and personal development.

The university is one of the international category universities with title: “full university”, including medical and dental faculty. The multi-level educational system of the Akhmet Yassawi University includes: higher undergraduate and postgraduate education (bachelor degrees, master degrees, residency, internship and doctoral studies).

Admission to University is carried out on Kazakhstan state educational grants, on a contractual basis and Turkish educational grants (quotas). Students are trained in 155 majors.

The university has 10 faculties, including the Graduate School of Governance and Economics, a vocational college, 6 research institutes, and a specialized dissertation council for doctoral dissertations, more than 10000 students, interns, undergraduates, residents and doctoral students are trained at the university. T

he university has a unique for Kazakhstan corporate governance system. In accordance with the Charter approved by the Governments of Kazakhstan and Turkey, the Supreme Governing Body is the Intergovernmental Board of Trustees (Ankara), providing general university management on the parity basis and consists of ten members. Five members, including the President/Rector, are appointed by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the other five by the Government of Turkey. Financing is made from the republican budget of Kazakhstan and from the budget of the Republic of Turkey.

Akhmet Yassawi University is the first university in the Turkic world where a dialogue of cultures and inter-ethnic tolerant education of young people from more than 19 countries of the world takes place, and in the context of modern globalization it has important ideological significance as an educational center spiritually uniting the Turkic-speaking world.

In May 2007, the University signed a Memorandum of Accession to the Bologna Declaration and in September 2010 signed the Great Charter of Universities, which is the basis of the Bologna Declaration.

Educational activities are carried out across 76 bachelor degree, 46 master programmes, 15 PhD, 9 residencies and 6 internships in natural, humanitarian, economic, legal, social, medical, technical sciences, education, business, services and art.

In 2018-2019 academic year, the university has 74 doctors, 292 candidates of science, 84 PhD doctors, 5% are foreign tutors from Turkey and other countries. Teaching is provided in Kazakh, Turkish, Russian and English languages.

There are links to the social media accounts of Akhmet Yassawi University:

Official website - www.ayu.edu.kz/en

Facebook account - https://m.facebook.com/yasawimedia/

Instagram account – https://www.instagram.com/yasawi.university/

Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCvqZGEXIsYcK8uzYs1xvJ3A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Yasawi_Univ

About Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University

Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (hereafter Akhmet Yassawi University) was established in 1991 due to personal initiative of the Head of State, N.A. Nazarbayev and based on the Intergovernmental Agreement between Kazakhstan and Turkey nations to train modern highly qualified specialists from Turkic-speaking countries, within the spiritual center of the Turkic world – Turkestan city, and it became the first university receiving the status of an international institution of higher education.


Akhmet Yassawi University is one of the leading multi-disciplinary universities in Kazakhstan. The university is annually placed in the top ten of the national university rankings (6th place in 2018), as an innovative university that implements modern educational and scientific policies, based on the desire for continuous professional growth and personal development.

The university is one of the international category universities with title: “full university”, including medical and dental faculty. The multi-level educational system of the Akhmet Yassawi University includes: higher undergraduate and postgraduate education (bachelor degrees, master degrees, residency, internship and doctoral studies).

Admission to University is carried out on Kazakhstan state educational grants, on a contractual basis and Turkish educational grants (quotas). Students are trained in 155 majors.

The university has 10 faculties, including the Graduate School of Governance and Economics, a vocational college, 6 research institutes, and a specialized dissertation council for doctoral dissertations, more than 10000 students, interns, undergraduates, residents and doctoral students are trained at the university. T

he university has a unique for Kazakhstan corporate governance system. In accordance with the Charter approved by the Governments of Kazakhstan and Turkey, the Supreme Governing Body is the Intergovernmental Board of Trustees (Ankara), providing general university management on the parity basis and consists of ten members. Five members, including the President/Rector, are appointed by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the other five by the Government of Turkey. Financing is made from the republican budget of Kazakhstan and from the budget of the Republic of Turkey.

Akhmet Yassawi University is the first university in the Turkic world where a dialogue of cultures and inter-ethnic tolerant education of young people from more than 19 countries of the world takes place, and in the context of modern globalization it has important ideological significance as an educational center spiritually uniting the Turkic-speaking world.

In May 2007, the University signed a Memorandum of Accession to the Bologna Declaration and in September 2010 signed the Great Charter of Universities, which is the basis of the Bologna Declaration.

Educational activities are carried out across 76 bachelor degree, 46 master programmes, 15 PhD, 9 residencies and 6 internships in natural, humanitarian, economic, legal, social, medical, technical sciences, education, business, services and art.

In 2018-2019 academic year, the university has 74 doctors, 292 candidates of science, 84 PhD doctors, 5% are foreign tutors from Turkey and other countries. Teaching is provided in Kazakh, Turkish, Russian and English languages.

There are links to the social media accounts of Akhmet Yassawi University:

Official website - www.ayu.edu.kz/en

Facebook account - https://m.facebook.com/yasawimedia/

Instagram account – https://www.instagram.com/yasawi.university/

Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCvqZGEXIsYcK8uzYs1xvJ3A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Yasawi_Univ

Available programs

The university trains future specialists in 76 educational programs and develops curricula for study courses with duration of two, three, four years and five years.

The 4-year undergraduate program is consisted of 46 disciplines in total, 11 of which are general educational disciplines, 24 are core and 11 are majors.

The 5-year undergraduate program is consisted of 55 disciplines in total, 11 of which are general educational disciplines, 29 are core and 15 are majors.

The 3-year undergraduate program for applicants of technical and vocational education consists of 37 disciplines. Including, 10 general educational disciplines, 20 core and 7 majors.

Regarding 2-year studies the total number of disciplines is 22, with 14 core and 8 majors.

The University considers applications for admission for the undergraduate programs from citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other foreign citizens: who have received secondary, post-secondary, technical, vocational or higher education.

The annual tuition fees for international students are between 450,000 and 850,000 KZT (undergraduate programs).

On the basis of intergovernmental agreements, quotas have been allocated to foreign citizens, which are granted on the basis of educational grants.

Foreign citizens submit their hard copies of documents to the university selection committee or register the application online through the university website: http://admission.ayu.edu.kz/#

Khodja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (hereinafter Akhmet Yassawi University) provides training for postgraduate education programs that include the following level of education: master’s degrees, residency, doctoral studies. Training under these programs is carried out across 7 faculties of Akhmet Yassawi University, the Graduate School of Governance and Economics (hereinafter Graduate School) and the Medical Institute of Postgraduate Education (hereinafter - IIEP) with total of 78 educational programs (hereinafter referred to as EP) that have been registered in the EP catalog of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including: masters’ programs - 55, residencies - 9, doctoral studies - 14.

Master’s and doctoral programs are run in the faculties of: Philology; Engineering; Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Artificial Sciences, Medicine and the Graduate School in Turkestan city with a duration of 2 years in the scientific and pedagogical direction and the terms of study are 1 (one) year and 1.5 (one and a half) years in the specialized direction. The total number of students in the Akhmet Yassawi University within the postgraduate education programs is 731, including 470 (222 of which are the student of distance learning program KAZTEP) of master’s program, 186 are in the residency and 76 at the doctorate level.

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Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University is one of the top public universities in Turkestan, Kazakhstan. It is ranked #781-790 in QS World University Rankings 2024.

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