Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages

Акционерное общество "Казахский университет международных отношений и мировых языков имени Абылай хана"

Joint-stock university (corporatised) · Almaty

Students

5,917

From abroad

11.6%

685 students

Taught in English

0.0%

On a state grant

15.6%

4,993 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's5,650 · 95.5%
  • Master's173 · 2.9%
  • Doctoral94 · 1.6%

By language of instruction

  • Kazakh3,798 · 64.2%
  • Russian2,119 · 35.8%

Graduates recorded, 2025

1,454

Graduates recorded, 2026

1,860

Teaching staff

538

14 from abroad

Fields taught (23 programme groups)

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

Bachelor's

  • B018Teacher training in foreign language
  • B036Translation studies
  • B042Journalism and reporting studies
  • B044Management and administration
  • B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
  • B049Law
  • B091Tourism 
  • B093Restaurant business and hotel management
  • B135Oriental studies
  • B140International relations and diplomacy

Master's

  • M019Teacher training in foreign language
  • M055Oriental studies
  • M056Translation studies, simultaneous interpretation
  • M059Foreign philology
  • M064International relations
  • M067Journalism and reportorial major
  • M147Tourism
  • M149Restaurant business and hotel industry

Doctoral

  • D019Teacher training in foreign languages
  • D056Translation studies, simultaneous interpretation
  • D059Foreign philology
  • D064International relations
  • D065Regional studies

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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.