Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University (hereafter Akhmet Yassawi University) was established in 1991 due to personal initiative of the Head of State, N.A. Nazarbayev and based on the Intergovernmental Agreement between Kazakhstan and Turkey nations to train modern highly qualified specialists from Turkic-speaking countries, within the spiritual center of the Turkic world – Turkestan city, and it became the first university receiving the status of an international institution of higher education.

Akhmet Yassawi University is one of the leading multi-disciplinary universities in Kazakhstan. The university is annually placed in the top ten of the national university rankings (6th place in 2018), as an innovative university that implements modern educational and scientific policies, based on the desire for continuous professional growth and personal development.

The university is one of the international category universities with title: “full university”, including medical and dental faculty. The multi-level educational system of the Akhmet Yassawi University includes: higher undergraduate and postgraduate education (bachelor degrees, master degrees, residency, internship and doctoral studies).

Admission to University is carried out on Kazakhstan state educational grants, on a contractual basis and Turkish educational grants (quotas). Students are trained in 155 majors.

The university has 10 faculties, including the Graduate School of Governance and Economics, a vocational college, 6 research institutes, and a specialized dissertation council for doctoral dissertations, more than 10000 students, interns, undergraduates, residents and doctoral students are trained at the university. T

he university has a unique for Kazakhstan corporate governance system. In accordance with the Charter approved by the Governments of Kazakhstan and Turkey, the Supreme Governing Body is the Intergovernmental Board of Trustees (Ankara), providing general university management on the parity basis and consists of ten members. Five members, including the President/Rector, are appointed by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the other five by the Government of Turkey. Financing is made from the republican budget of Kazakhstan and from the budget of the Republic of Turkey.

Akhmet Yassawi University is the first university in the Turkic world where a dialogue of cultures and inter-ethnic tolerant education of young people from more than 19 countries of the world takes place, and in the context of modern globalization it has important ideological significance as an educational center spiritually uniting the Turkic-speaking world.

In May 2007, the University signed a Memorandum of Accession to the Bologna Declaration and in September 2010 signed the Great Charter of Universities, which is the basis of the Bologna Declaration.

Educational activities are carried out across 76 bachelor degree, 46 master programmes, 15 PhD, 9 residencies and 6 internships in natural, humanitarian, economic, legal, social, medical, technical sciences, education, business, services and art.

In 2018-2019 academic year, the university has 74 doctors, 292 candidates of science, 84 PhD doctors, 5% are foreign tutors from Turkey and other countries. Teaching is provided in Kazakh, Turkish, Russian and English languages.

There are links to the social media accounts of Akhmet Yassawi University:

Official website - www.ayu.edu.kz/en

Facebook account - https://m.facebook.com/yasawimedia/

Instagram account – https://www.instagram.com/yasawi.university/

Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCvqZGEXIsYcK8uzYs1xvJ3A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Yasawi_Univ