Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University

The Republican State Enterprise with the right of economic management "Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter Korkyt Ata KSU) was formed on the basis of the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda Humanitarian University and the I. Zhakhayev Kyzylorda Polytechnic Institute.History of creation:

1937 - the Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute was opened on the basis of the Far Eastern Korean Pedagogical Institute;

1952 - the Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute is named after N.V. Gogol;

1992 - the N.V. Gogol Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute is named after the philosopher of the Great Steppe - Korkyt Ata;

1996 - the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute is reorganized into Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda Humanitarian University;

1998 - the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University was established by the merger of the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda Humanitarian University and the I.Zhakhayev Kyzylorda Polytechnic Institute.

2020 - the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University the restructured into a non-profit joint company "Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University".

Educational activities are organized at 5  Institutes and 25 departments. The training is implemented for over 9014 students in 66 Bachelor, 36 Master, and 13 Ph.D. educational degree programs respectively increased. In November 2022  the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda  University passed institutional accreditation (certificate № AA 0238  of December 14, 2022). 107 educational programs of the Korkyt Ata KSU including 61 bachelor's, 33 master's degrees, and 13 Ph.D. doctoral studies have passed specialized accreditation through the Independent  Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA) and  Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) . 

From March 4, 2019, the University has 7 dissertation councils for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in the following areas:

8D011-Pedagogy and Psychology (8D01101-Pedagogy and Psychology) 

8D017-Teacher training in languages and literature (8D01721-Kazakh language and literature);

8D073-Architecture and construction (8D07365-Construction; 8D07366-Production of building materials, products, and structures);

The Korkyt Ata KU is a member of the European Association of Higher Educational Institutions (EURASHE-2005), the Eurasian-Pacific University Network of high schools (EURASIAUNINET-2005), the Magna Charta Universitatum (2005), the Eurasian Association of Universities (EAU-2011), and the Association of Asian Universities (AAU-2017), Association of Economic Universities of South and East Europe and Black Sea Region (UNICA-2019). Scientific journal "Bulletin of Korkyt Ata KU", the multi-copy newspaper "Syr Tuleghi" is published at the university. According to the National rating of the Republic of Kazakhstan - 2020 of the Independent Kazakhstan Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University ranks the ninth among multidisciplinary universities in the Republic of Kazakhstan.