Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education – Rating (IQAA-Ranking) presented the results of the rating of educational programs.

President of the country Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, speaking at the third meeting of the National Council of Public Trust, May 27, 2020, stressed the need to develop competition between universities. One of the tools for the development of competition is the conduct of ratings of universities and their educational programs, which have gained popularity both in Kazakhstan and abroad.

This year, universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan presented data on more than 800 educational programs in undergraduate and graduate programs.

This year, it differs from previous studies, where the multidimensional rating included ten different sub-ratings: consisting of 6 indicators (indicator 1 – diversity of student population; indicator 2 – student learning outcomes; indicator 3 – academic staff; indicator 4 – research and development innovative work; indicator 5 – international cooperation; indicator 6 – information support), additional indicator 7 is included – results of employment of graduates.

In addition to reputational assessments by experts and employers this year, additional indicators are included, these are the assessments of students who are studying at that moment in the university and the assessments of graduates, therefore, three new parameters are added to this study.

A survey of experts, employers, students and graduates was conducted by questioning by e-mail, responses were received from more than 500 employers, 3,000 students and 2,000 graduates.

The level of preparedness of graduates of Kazakhstani universities was carried out by interviewing representatives of employers (national companies, large, medium and small businesses, associations), as well as central state and local executive bodies.

The Karaganda State Industrial University in the ranking of educational programs of universities in Kazakhstan – 2020 in the undergraduate programs took the following positions:

6B072 Metallurgy – the 1^st place

6B072 Technology of processing materials by pressure – the 1^st place

6B071 Engineering – the 1^st place

6B071 Automation and control – the 2^nd place

6B071 Technological machines and equipment (by industry) – the 2^nd place

6B071 Materials science and technology of new materials – the 2^nd place

6B073 Construction – the 2^nd place

6B071 Power industry – the 3^rd place

Rating of educational programs of a magistracy:

7M071 Engineering – the 1^st place

7M071 Materials science and technology of new materials – the 2^nd place

7M072 Metallurgy – the 2^nd place

OP 7M071 Chemical technology of organic substances advanced two positions ahead, taking the 5^th place this year.