University named after Zhumabek Akhmetuly Tashenov
Акционерное общество "Университет имени Жумабека Ахметулы Ташенева"
Private · Shymkent
Students
17,691
From abroad
0.6%
98 students
Taught in English
0.4%
On a state grant
2.5%
17,244 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's16,642 · 94.1%
- Master's1,049 · 5.9%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh16,894 · 95.5%
- Russian733 · 4.1%
- English64 · 0.4%
Graduates recorded, 2025
7,587
Graduates recorded, 2026
4,329
Teaching staff
516
33 from abroad
Fields taught (33 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
- B005Teacher training in physical education
- B006Teacher training in music
- B007Teacher training in artistic production and technical drawing
- 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
- B021Singing arts
- B031Fashion design
- B043Library science, information processing and archival studies
- B044Management and administration
- B045Auditing and taxation
- B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
- B049Law
- B050Biological and related sciences
- B057Information technologies
Master's
- M001Pedagogy and psychology
- M003Teacher training without subject specialization
- M016Teacher training in history
- M017Teacher training in Kazakh language and literature
- M018Teacher training in Russian language and literature
- M019Teacher training in foreign language
- M070Economics
- M071State and local government
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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.