Auezov South Kazakhstan State University (SKSU) is one of the oldest educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nowadays SKSU is committed to excellence in teaching and research, distance education and the active promotion of young scientists.
SKSU is located in South region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the biggest industrial, trade and cultural centres of the country.
SKSU regularly rangs among the best univesities of Kazakhstan - according to the results of national ratings, the university is in the top three universities in the country. Moreover, in 2019 the university was among the 500 best universities in the world according to QS World University Ranking.
SKSU provide a goog scientific and educational environment for 27 680 students: bachelor's - 26 680, master's - 831, doctorate - 130. 300 educational prgrams is developed by academic staff of the University and successfully implemented for bachelors, masters and doctorate students in the following fields of knowledge: Engineering, IT, History, Economics, Business, Chemistry, Bioligy, Biotechnology, Food Science, Pedagogy and many others. 9 undergraduate ang 7 graduate specialties are accredited by German agency ASIIN.
SKSU is a member of Erasmus+ program, ECTN, EURASHE, Eurasian Association, CIS Networking Universities. The University signed agreements on collaboration with mora than 160 HEIs and scientific-research institutions. Our students has an opportunity to study in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Malaysia, Spain, Russia and others countries.
SKSU provides a great opportunity for research. The university is implementing 45 research pprojects having a budget of KZT 703.726 million. Commercialization of the results of scientific and technical activities is carried out in the framework of 6 projects with the budget of KZT 342.669 million. Annually the results of these research works are published in over 150 articles in scientific journals included in Web of Science and Scopus databases. The University independently publishes 5 scientific journals.