West Kazakhstan University named after Makhambet Utemisov
Некоммерческое акционерное общество "Западно-Казахстанский университет имени Махамбета Утемисова"
State university · West Kazakhstan Region
Students
7,246
From abroad
0.8%
58 students
Taught in English
0.4%
On a state grant
36.6%
4,590 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's6,930 · 95.6%
- Master's314 · 4.3%
- Doctoral2 · 0.0%
By language of instruction
- Kazakh5,762 · 79.5%
- Russian1,453 · 20.1%
- English31 · 0.4%
Graduates recorded, 2025
1,700
Graduates recorded, 2026
1,713
Teaching staff
418
18 from abroad
Fields taught (63 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
- 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
- B021Singing arts
- B027Performing Arts
- B028Choreography
- B031Fashion design
- B034History
- B037Philology
- B038Sociology
- B040Political science
- B041Psychology
- B043Library science, information processing and archival studies
- B044Management and administration
- B045Auditing and taxation
- B046Finance, economics, banking and insurance
- B047Marketing and advertizing
- B049Law
- B051Environment
- B052Earth Science
- B053Chemistry
- B057Information technologies
- B091Tourism
- B092Leisure
- B140International relations and diplomacy
Master's
- M001Pedagogy and psychology
- M003Teacher training without subject specialization
- M005Teacher training in physical education
- M006Teacher training in music
- 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
- M035Fashion, design
- M053History
- M064International relations
- M066Psychology
- M070Economics
- M071State and local government
- M072Management
- M080Biology
Doctoral
- D080Biology
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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.