Dates and facts

Background information

The University has been training translators since 2004. The Faculty of Foreign Languages has trained more than 600 highly qualified translators. Today, the faculty is one of the major centers of the republic in control of the training of competitive translation personnel.

Students:

The demand for the program "Translation Studies" is quite high. Over the past five years, the student body has doubled. Today, 157 students are enrolled in this program. These include foreign citizens from India, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan.

Employment:

Our graduates are highly employable in the labor market. Their employment rate for several years has been 85%. Today, graduate translators work in Nur-Sultan, Almaty, and other major cities of Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, Spain, Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan.

Student exchange:

Students of the department actively engage in academic mobility programs and study at foreign partner universities: Shihezi University (China), Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (Russia), Moscow State Linguistic University (Russia), Belarusian State University (Belarus), Charles University (Czech Republic).

The department consists of experienced teachers who have completed internships in the countries of the languages taught, are holders of the republican title "Best University Teacher" (Associate Professor Shelestova T. Yu.).

Accreditation and leadership:

The program "Translation Studies" is accredited by the National Kazakhstan Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.

Over the past three years, the educational program "Translation Business" has been among the top five in the national rating of programs of the Kazakhstan Independent Agency for Quality Assurance.

Our Partners:

The department cooperates with companies interested in the employment of translators. These include schools, universities, language centers, translation agencies, manufacturing companies such as Arcelor Mittal Temirtau, and Hegelmann Transport. The permanent partners of the department are the Association of Professional Translators and Translation Companies, the Chamber of Commerce of the Karaganda region.