South Kazakhstan Pedagogical University named after Ozbekali Zhanibekov
некоммерческое акционерное общество "Южно-Казахстанский педагогический университет имени Өзбекәлі Жәнібеков"
State university · Shymkent
Students
8,429
From abroad
2.0%
170 students
Taught in English
0.0%
On a state grant
37.3%
5,278 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's7,707 · 91.4%
- Master's569 · 6.8%
- Doctoral153 · 1.8%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh7,081 · 84.0%
- Russian771 · 9.1%
- English1 · 0.0%
Graduates recorded, 2025
1,936
Graduates recorded, 2026
2,286
Teaching staff
467
1 from abroad
Fields taught (56 programme groups)
The national programme groups — the Ministry's classification of educational programmes — in which the platform lists this institution.
Bachelor's
- B001Pedagogy and psychology
- B002Pre-school education and upbringing
- B003Pedagogy and primary education methodology
- B004Teacher training in basic military training
- B005Teacher training in physical education
- B006Teacher training in music
- B007Teacher training in artistic production and technical drawing
- B008Teacher training in fundamentals of law and economics
- B009Teacher training in mathematics
- B010Teacher training in physics
- B011Teacher training in informatics
- B012Teacher training in chemistry
- B013Teacher training in biology
- B014Teacher training in geography
- B015Teacher training in humanitarian subjects
- B016Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- B017Teacher training in Russian language and literature
- B018Teacher training in foreign language
- B019Training of social educators
- B020Special pedagogy
- B031Fashion design
- B036Translation studies
- B037Philology
- B050Biological and related sciences
Master's
- M002Pre-school education and upbringing
- M003Teacher training without subject specialization
- M004Teacher training in basic military training
- M005Teacher training in physical education
- M006Teacher training in music
- M007Teacher training in arts, graphics and design
- M010Teacher training in mathematics
- M011Teacher training in physics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M013Teacher training in chemistry (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- M015Teacher training in geography
- M016Teacher training in history
- M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
- M019Teacher training in foreign language
- M021Special pedagogy
- M035Fashion, design
Doctoral
- D003Teacher training without subject specialization
- D006Teacher training in music
- D007Teacher training in artistic production, graphics and design
- D009Fundamentals of law and economics
- D010Teacher training in mathematics
- D011Teacher training in physics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- D012Teacher training in informatics (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- D013Teacher training in chemistry (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- D014Teacher training in biology (Kazakh, Russian, English)
- D015Teacher training in geography
- D016Teacher training in history
- D017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- D018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
- D019Teacher training in foreign languages
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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.