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Atyrau University of Oil and Gas named after Safi Utebayev

Некоммерческое акционерное общество "Атырауский университет нефти и газа имени Сафи Утебаева"

State university · Atyrau Region

Students

3,681

From abroad

1.5%

56 students

Taught in English

3.6%

On a state grant

26.2%

2,716 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's3,317 · 90.1%
  • Master's328 · 8.9%
  • Doctoral36 · 1.0%

By language of instruction

  • Kazakh2,192 · 59.5%
  • Russian1,358 · 36.9%
  • English131 · 3.6%

Graduates recorded, 2025

807

Graduates recorded, 2026

926

Teaching staff

158

4 from abroad

Fields taught (24 programme groups)

The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.

Bachelor's

  • B057Information technologies
  • B058IT security
  • B059Information and communication technologies
  • B060Chemical engineering and processes
  • B061Materials science and technologies
  • B062Electrical Engineering and Electrical Power Engineering
  • B063Electrical engineering and automation
  • B064Mechanics and metal working
  • B065Transport equipment and technology
  • B071Mining and mineral extraction
  • B074Urban planning, construction work and civil engineering
  • B094Sanitary preventive measures
  • B095Transport services 
  • B126Transport construction
  • B271Oil and gas major

Master's

  • M072Management
  • M097Chemical engineering and processes
  • M099Energy and electrical engineering
  • M100Automation and management
  • M115Oil engineering
  • M121Geology
  • M150Sanitary measure

Doctoral

  • D097Chemical engineering and processes
  • D115Oil engineering

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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.