Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan calls for foreign applicants, including persons of Kazakh nationality who are not citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan for full-time studying under Bachelor, Master and PhD educational programs.
Scholarships allocation:
1. Bachelor degree program – 490
2. Master degree program – 50
3. PhD degree program – 10
Admissions operator is Higher Education Development National Center MSHE RK.
Applicants can submit documents online from March 30 to June 30, 2023.
Before submitting documents, please read the full instructions here.
List of universities – participants of the Scholarship Program, as well as a list of specialties here (by clicking on the university, you can see the list of specialties)
Information about the Scholarship program here.
Guide for international students in Kazakhstan
Application form can be submitted in Kazakh or Russian or English.
The applicants, when filling out the application form should attach the scanned copies of the following documents:
Bachelor degree:
1) identity document;
2) a document on the previous level of education with a transcript and attachment (if available) and a notarized translation into Kazakh or Russian or English (for applicants for a bachelor’s degree – the average score of the document confirming secondary education with a grade of at least “good” );
3) motivational essay in Kazakh or Russian or English;
4) a letter of recommendation in Kazakh or Russian or English from the educational organization in which the applicant studied, or from the employer;
5) a medical certificate for study abroad, containing the conclusions of a therapist, narcologist, psychiatrist, as well as data from an X-ray (fluorographic) examination, laboratory tests, as well as a medical certificate confirming the absence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) and AIDS, issued by official health authority of the applicant’s country of residence.
6) application form;
7) letter of invitation from the Kazakhstan university (if available).
Master degree:
1) identity document;
2) a document on the previous level of education with a transcript and an appendix (if available) and a notarized translation into Kazakh or Russian or English (bachelor’s or specialist diploma with an average score of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0) GPA or its equivalent obtained in educational institutions ;
3) motivational essay in Kazakh or Russian or English;
4) 2 letters of recommendation in Kazakh or Russian or English from the educational organization in which the applicant studied, or from the employer;
5) a medical certificate for study abroad, containing the conclusions of a therapist, narcologist, psychiatrist, as well as data from an X-ray (fluorographic) examination, laboratory tests, as well as a medical certificate confirming the absence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) and AIDS, issued by official health authority of the applicant’s country of residence.
6) application form;
7) letter of invitation from the Kazakhstan university (if available).
8) an international certificate confirming knowledge of a foreign language:
English: IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System Academic) threshold score – at least 5.5;
TOEFL IBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based test), threshold score – at least 46;
TOEFL PBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-based test), threshold score – at least 453;
German: Deutsche Sprachpruefung fuer den Hochschulzugang (DSH, Niveau B2/level B2), TestDaF-Prufung (Niveau B2/level B2);
French: TFI (Test de Français International™) – not lower than B2 level in reading and listening sections), DELF (Diplome d’Etudes en Langue française) – level B2, DALF (Diplome Approfondi de Langue française) – level B2, TCF (Test de connaissance du français) – at least 50 points.
An international certificate confirming the knowledge of a foreign language by a person for whom the indicated languages are native is not required.
PhD degree:
1) identity document;
2) a document on the previous level of education with a transcript and an appendix (if available) and a notarized translation into Kazakh or Russian or English (bachelor’s or specialist diploma with an average score of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0) GPA or its equivalent obtained in educational institutions ;
3) motivational essay in Kazakh or Russian or English;
4) 2 letters of recommendation in Kazakh or Russian or English from the educational organization in which the applicant studied, or from the employer;
5) a medical certificate for study abroad, containing the conclusions of a therapist, narcologist, psychiatrist, as well as data from an X-ray (fluorographic) examination, laboratory tests, as well as a medical certificate confirming the absence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection) and AIDS, issued by official health authority of the applicant’s country of residence.
6) application form;
7) letter of invitation from the Kazakhstan university (if any);
8) an international certificate confirming knowledge of a foreign language:
English: IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System Academic) threshold score – at least 5.5;
TOEFL IBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based test), threshold score – at least 46;
TOEFL PBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-based test), threshold score – at least 453;
German: Deutsche Sprachpruefung fuer den Hochschulzugang (DSH, Niveau B2/level B2), TestDaF-Prufung (Niveau B2/level B2);
French: TFI (Test de Français International™) – not lower than B2 level in reading and listening sections), DELF (Diplome d’Etudes en Langue française) – level B2, DALF (Diplome Approfondi de Langue française) – level B2, TCF (Test de connaissance du français) – at least 50 points;
9) substantiation of the topic of the dissertation research in the language of instruction (Kazakh or Russian or English).
For more detail information:
https://enic-kazakhstan.edu.kz/en/stipendialnye-programmy/operativnaya-informaciya
