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Karaganda State Technical University is one of the leading technical higher schools in Kazakhstan. It is quite large but not very old.
It was founded in 1953 as a Mining institute. Yunus Nurmukhamedov, an assistant professor of the Moscow Mining Institute, became its first rector. First there were only 2 specialties at the Institute: mining mineral deposits and mining electromechanical engineering. The students body amounted to 209 and the teaching staff was 26.
In 1955 the Institute was headed by Abylkas Saginov, a young scientist, a Master of technical sciences. The development of industry in Central Kazakhstan demanded more highly qualified specialists. A. Saginov greatly contributed to the development of the Mining Institute. There appeared 26 new specialties. And in 1958 the Mining Institute was reorganized into a Polytechnic one. Serious attention was paid to training the personnel and the most talented students were sent to central higher educational establishments of the USSR. As a result some scientific schools appeared at the Institute. In 1969 the Institute was the first in Kazakhstan to begin training specialists in creating software products.
For the success achieved in training specialists for our national economy the Institute was awarded an Order of Labour Red Banner in 1976. A.Saginov headed the Institute more than thirty years. He became an academician, a Hero of Socialist Labour.
In 1994 G.G.Piven, a professor, a Doctor of technical sciences, an academician, was appointed rector of the Institute. A program of developing the Institute was created, and soon the Institute turned into a center of education and science. There appeared a technical lyceum for schoolchildren with educational requirements of first seven years of schooling, a boarding-school “Murager” for talented children, a college of information technologies and business to train specialists having a secondary vocational education, a faculty of shortened period of study for college-leavers, a faculty of urgently required professions for getting a second higher education.
Karaganda State Technical University
In 1996 the Polytechnic Institute got a new status and was renamed into Karaganda State Technical University.
Nowadays the University has 12 faculties. It trains specialists in more than 50 specialties. It has post-graduate courses in 14 specialties. More than 10,000 students, are currently enrolled, mostly full time students. There are about 700 teachers among which are 50 doctors of sciences, professors, 42 academicians and corresponding members.
It has the largest scientific technical library containing more than 1.6 mln. volumes of educational, scientific, reference, and fiction books by home and foreign authors. It has wide connections with information centers of the country.
KarSTU is a school for displaying creative abilities of young people. There are students’ scientific societies, debate sections, a club of merry and ingenious people (KVN), amateur groups, students’ building groups, etc.
The University has a powerful sports complex including 5 sports grounds, 7 specialized sports halls for going in for popular kinds of sport. Regional and republic matches in 15 kinds of sport are held here.
The University has a fine sports-health base “Polytechnic” in Karkaralinsk. Every year more than 1,000 students and teachers have a good rest there. The students have the practical work in geology and geodesy there as well.
Now there are about 1,400 computers in the University united in the local network. The University has its own channel in the Internet, its own site, a laboratory of sputnik digital television. It has a center of distance education. All these are at the disposal of both the teachers and the students of the University.
The University keeps in close touch with higher educational institutions, scientific centers and industrial enterprises of Kazakhstan, other republics of the CIS and foreign countries to improve the teaching process and to meet the up-to-date requirements of production. In 2004 the University was the first among the higher educational establishments of Kazakhstan to get an international certificate for developing a quality management system. In 2005 the University was awarded a gold medal “For high quality in business practice” (Switzerland).
The Faculties of the University:
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The Mining Faculty |
Горный факультет |
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The Faculty of Power Engineering, Communication and Automation |
Факультет электроэнергетики, связи и автоматизации |
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The Machine -Building Faculty |
Машиностроительный факультет |
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The Road-Transport Faculty |
Транспортно-дорожный факультет |
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Специальности |
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The Civil Engineering Faculty |
Инженерно-строительный факультет |
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The Faculty of Economy and Management |
Факультет экономики и менеджмента |
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The Faculty of Information Technologies |
Факультет информационных технологий |
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Correspondence-and-Distance Faculty |
Факультет заочно-дистанционного обучения |
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The Preparatory Faculty |
Факультет довузовской подготовки |
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The Faculty of Shortened Term of Studying |
Факультет сокращенного срока обучения |