哈薩克斯坦國立大學: 哈萨克斯坦的国立大学

Kazakhstan. Named after the Eastern philosopher and scholar al-Farabi, it is one of the country's largest universities. 

KazNU is the oldest classical university of the Republic established by a Decree of the Kazakh Regional Committee (KRC) office dated November 13, 1933. One year after Kazakhstan's 1990 declaration of independence, the name was changed to Al-Farabi Kazakh State University. According to the QS World University Rankings KazNU takes 207th place in the rating of the best universities of the world.

In 2001, the government classified it as a "national" university. More than 20,000 students, post-graduates and PhD students study at KazNU, and there are more than 2500 faculty members working at KazNU, including 400 doctors of science, professors and more than 800 candidates of science and associate professors. Like other universities founded under the Soviet system, it is highly centralized.^{[需要解释]}

In 2021, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was named as one of the Top 500 Universities in the World.

Campus

The university has its own campus, so-called "Kazgugrad", on land between Timiryazev Street, Al-Farabi Avenue, the "Yessentai" ("Vesnovka") river, and the Botanical Garden. The main building (GUK) is 15 stories tall and hosts the university administration as well as the History, Economics, Law, Philology and Journalism departments.

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University has the largest campus in Kazakhstan with an area of 100 hectares, in one of the most beautiful areas of Almaty. The education infrastructure of the campus consists of 13 education buildings with a total area of 165,000 m² and scientific laboratories with a total area of 18,940 m².

There are seventeen dormitories on campus and four more departments: Philosophy and Political Science, Oriental Studies, Preparatory and International Relations in the second, smaller campus located at the intersection of Karasay Batyr - Masanchi streets.

The departments of Physics, Mechanics-Mathematics, and Chemistry were formerly in the second campus; in 2011 they moved to newly constructed buildings on the first.

History

January 15, 1934, is the day of the official opening of Kazakh State University, which was established at the basis of the Pedagogical Institute by the decree of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars of USSR and VKPb Kazakh regional committee. On December 2 of the same year KazSU was named after the famous Soviet party and state leader S.M. Kirov.

In January 1934, the first entrance exams at the faculties of Biology, Physics and Mathematics were held; in September they were held at the Faculty of Chemistry. In 1937, the first Faculty of Humanities – the Faculty of Foreign Languages was established; a year later, the Faculty of Philology. In May 1941, as a result of joining with the University of the Kazakh Communist Institute of Journalism, the Faculty of Journalism was established.

After the severe years of war, new faculties began to open. In August 1947, the Faculty of Geography was established and, in 1949, the faculties of Philosophy and Economics. As a result of the joining with the Alma-Ata Institute of Law in 1955, the Faculty of Law was established.

During the same period, a strong scientific educational and methodological base emerged at the university. By the mid-1980s there were 98 departments, 43 scientific research laboratories and 9 scientific research groups at KazSU. The faculty staff consisted of 1180 people; among the faculty staff there were 30 academicians and AS KazSSR correspondent members, more than 100 doctors, professors, more than 600 science candidates, lecturers. Human resources were trained on 21 specialties and 74 specializations.

Faculties

• Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
• Faculty of Physics and Technologies
• Faculty of Informational Technology （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
• Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences
• Faculty of History, Archeology and Ethnology
• Faculty of Philology and World Languages
• Faculty of Journalism
• Faculty of International Relations
• Oriental Studies Faculty
• Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science
• High School of Economics and Business （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• Law Faculty
• Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students
• Higher School of Medicine

Research Institutes

The university also has research institutes:

• Institute of State and Law
• Research Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (RI of ETF)
• Research Institute of New Chemical Technologies and Materials (RI of NCTM)
• Center of Physical and Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis (CPCMA)
• Research Institute of Biology and Biotechnology (RI of BB)
• Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
• Confucius Institute
• Science and Technology Park (Technopark)
• National Open Nanotechnology Laboratory (NONL)

Rankings

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全球排名
《QS》世界排名	165

In 2009, the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was included in the list of the best higher institutions in the world according to the prestigious Times University ranking. It entered the list of 600 best universities out of a total of 16,000 participants. At the time of entering the rating, more than 20 thousand students from various countries of the near and far abroad studied at the university.

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was ranked 18th among countries of the emerging Europe and central Asia region in QS EECA University Rankings of 2020 and 207th worldwide according to the QS World University Rankings in 2020.

Partner universities

• Dongguk University, Republic of Korea
• Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
• Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
• Soongsil University, Republic of Korea
• Catholic University of Daegu, Republic of Korea
• Ching Yun University, Taiwan
• Open International University for Complementary Medicines

Notable alumni

• Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Murat Aitkhozhin, President of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
• Yerik Asanbayev, former Vice-President of Kazakhstan
• Kanat Auyesbay, Kazakh newsreader
• Oralkhan Bokeev, Kazakh writer
• Gulzhana Karagusova, Kazakhstan's Minister of Social Justice
• Abish Kekilbayev, Chairman of the Republic of Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet, and Secretary of State of Kazakhstan
• Aigul Kemelbayeva, Kazakh writer
• German Kim, head of the Department of Korean Studies and one of the leading internationally recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram
• Michał Łabenda, Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mongolia and Egypt
• Mukhtar Magauin, Kazakh writer and publicist
• Fuat Mansurov, Kazakh mathematician and conductor
• Gulzhan Moldazhanova, Kazakh businesswoman
• Maksut Narikbaev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan
• Oleg Novachuk, Kazakh businessman, currently Chief Executive of Kazakhmys
• Abdizhamil Nurpeisov, Kazakh poet and writer
• Gulnara Sarsenova, Kazakh film producer
• Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstan's former Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Olzhas Suleimenov, former Speaker of Kazakhstan's parliament and poet
• Yessengaly Raushanov, Kazakh writer and poet.
• Igor Rogov, head of the Constitutional Council
• Tauman Torekhanov, Kazakh journalist, editor and writer
• Zhanseit Tuimebayev, Kazakhstan's former Minister of Education and former ambassador to Russia
• Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Education

参见

• Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology