South Kazakhstan Medical Academy
Акционерное общество «Южно-Казахстанская медицинская академия»
Joint-stock university (corporatised) · academy · Shymkent
Students
6,031
From abroad
21.0%
1,266 students
Taught in English
20.8%
On a state grant
19.7%
4,840 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's5,101 · 84.6%
- Residency & internship843 · 14.0%
- Master's47 · 0.8%
- Doctoral40 · 0.7%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh3,680 · 61.0%
- English1,252 · 20.8%
- Russian1,099 · 18.2%
Graduates recorded, 2025
928
Graduates recorded, 2026
1,225
Teaching staff
477
7 from abroad
Fields taught (44 programme groups)
The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.
Bachelor's
- B072Pharmaceutical production technology
- B084Nursing
- B085Pharmacy
- B086General medicine
- B087Dentistry
- B088Pediatrics
- B089Public health
- BM086Medicine
- BM087Dentistry
- BM088Pediatrics
- BM089Preventive medicine
Master's
- M140Public Health
- M141Nursing
- M142Pharmacy
- M144Medicine
Doctoral
- D139Public health
- D140Pharmacy
- D141Medicine
Medical residency
- R001Adult, children's cardiology
- R002Adult, children's rheumatology
- R003Allergology and immunology for adults, children
- R004Adult, children's gastroenterology
- R007Adult, children's pulmonology
- R008Endocrinology for adults, children
- R009Nephrology for adults, children
- R011Infectious diseases for adults, children
- R014Radiology
- R015Radiation oncology
- R017Anesthesiology and resuscitation for adults, children
- R020Neurosurgery for adults, children
- R023Pediatric surgery
- R024Adult oncology
- R025Traumatology-orthopedics for adults and children
- R026Urology and andrology for adults, children
- R028Otorhinolaryngology for adults, children
- R030Pediatrics
- R031Neonatology
- R032Obstetrics and gynecology for adults, children
- R036General surgery
- R037Adult, children's neurology
- R038Family medicine
- R039Therapy
- R040Physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults, children
- R042Clinical pharmacology
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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.