Institute of Postgraduate Education

The Institute of Postgraduate Education was established in 2017 through the merger of the Center for Postgraduate Education and the Project Training Office of the state program of industrial-innovative development.

The Institute takes its roots from the time of preparation of scientific and pedagogical staff through postgraduate and doctoral studies.

On the basis of the Kazakh Chemical Technology Institute, the postgraduate department began functioning in the 70s of the last century the preparation of doctors of sciences was conducted since 1994.

In different years, they headed the department of postgraduate and doctoral studies, Dujsebaev ND, Berdalieva GA, Suleimenov US, IsataevaZ.Zh. KazTEK, and in the future and SKSU named after M. Auezov was the Regional Center for the organization of consultations and passing the examinations of the candidate minimum in Kazakh and foreign languages, history and philosophy of science. Passing the candidate examinations were obligatory for awarding the scientific degree of Candidate of Science.

Preparation of masters at the university began in 1996 in 5 technological specialties, and since 1998 already in 42 specialties of the scientific and pedagogical direction. The first graduation was held in 1998.

In 2004, the Center for Postgraduate Training was organized on the basis of the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Doctoral Studies (IsataevaZ.Zh.) and the Department of Magistracy (Alekseeva NV), led by IsataevaZ.Zh. (2004-2006),Baibolov K.S.(2006-2009), Sipabek K.S. (2009-2010),Sembiev O.Z. (2010), IztaevZh.D.(2010-2011),Bazhirov T.S. (2011-2012),Medetbekova R.A. (2012-2013), AjtureevM.Zh.(2013-2015), Baizhanova S.B. (2015-2017).

The Institute of Postgraduate Education was headed by Baizhanova S.B. (2017-2018), Ybyraiym A.O. (2018-2020). Currently the head of the Institute is Konarbayeva Z. K.

In 2008, the PhD program for 9 scientific specialties was launched.

Since 2009, trainingis carried out on joint master’s educational programs of the Commonwealth of Independent States Networking University in the areas of philology, economics and law, with the issuance of two diplomas. The purpose of creating the CIS Network University is the development and implementation of the Erasmus Mundus program analogue within the framework of the common (general) educational space of the CIS member states.

Also, two-diploma education programs are being implemented with the University of Applied Sciences of Hamburg (Germany) in the areas of energy and food production, USHOS (University of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization).

After the accession of Kazakhstan to the Bologna Declaration in March 2010, the preparation of candidates and doctors of science was discontinued, a full transition to a three-level model for the training of bachelor-master’s specialists – Doctor PhD.

The goal of postgraduate education is to create, based on the integration of education and science, an effective system of training scientific, scientific and pedagogical personnel of a new formation, capable of solving issues of improving society, economy, production, science and the development of new technologies.

Master’s Degree SKSU named after M. Auezov implements educational and professional programs of post-graduate education, providing training for specialists who meet modern demands of the labor market. Preparation of undergraduates in the University is carried out in 24 specialties in two areas: profile with a standard term of study of 1-1.5 years and scientific and pedagogical – 2 years.

From 2021, admission to the MBA and EMBA programs will be carried out.

Since 2015, the University has been implementing educational programs within the State Program for Industrial and Innovative Development of the State program of industrial-innovative development in the specialties 6М072000 - Chemical technology of inorganic substances, 6М072800 - Technology of processing industries, 6М075300 - Chemical technology of refractory nonmetallic and silicate materials. During the implementation of this program in SKSU named after M. Auezov about 420 masters were issued for priority sectors of the economy, such as chemical industry, food production and construction materials production. Currently, within the framework of the State program of industrial-innovative development the training is also being conducted for related specialties: 6M070100 - Biotechnology, 6M070200 - Automation and management, 6M070300 - Information systems, 6M070800 - Oil and gas business, 6M070900 - Metallurgy, 6M071200 - Machine building, 6M071800 - Power engineering, 6M072100 - Chemical technology of organic substances, 6M072600 - Technology and design of light industry products, 6M072900 - Construction, 6M073000 - Manufacture of building materials, products and structures, 6M073900 - Petrochemicals.

Doctoral PhD is aimed at training with the award of a Ph.D. or a doctor by profile. Currently, the university has licenses for educational activities in 13 specialties of doctoral studies. Over the past 10 years, 4000 Masters and more than 50 PhD doctors have been trained.

There are 6 dissertational councils for defending doctoral dissertations at the University:

-in the direction of “Chemical technology”: 6D072000 – Chemical technology of inorganic substances and 6D072100 – Chemical technology of organic substances;

-6D073100 – Life safety and environmental protection;

-6D070100 – Biotechnology;

-6D010900 –Mathematics;

-6D012000–Professional training;

-6D072400 – Technological machines and equipment (on branches)

For today, 29 specialties of magistracy and doctoral studies in the South Kazakh Technical University named after M. Auezov showed the best results in the republic and entered the top three according to the version of The Independent Agency for Accreditation Rating, The Independent Kazakh Agency for Education Quality Assurance in Education, which testifies to the high quality of training of scientific personnel.