The Department of Political Science and Sociology was founded in 1995. It provides bachelor's and master's degrees and trains specialists in the field of political science and sociology. Students of the department have the opportunity to study along two trajectories: "Political Science","Sociology".

Political science students study such academic disciplines as "Political Power", "Policy of countering terrorism and extremism", "National Security of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Domestic and Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "World Politics and International Relations", "Political Technologies", "Elitism", "Image in Politics", "Political Conflictology", "Geopolitics", etc.

Students of sociology study such academic disciplines as "Management Sociology", "Image Theory", "Methods of conducting sociological research", "Sociology of Entrepreneurship", "Internet Sociology", "Ethnosociology", "Family Sociology", etc.

Students of the department have access to the world's information resources, databases of periodicals and scientific literature.

All second-year students have internships in state bodies – akimats, maslikhats, departments and ministries, as well as pass pedagogical practice, interning in secondary specialized educational institutions of the city and region.

Graduates of the department can work in government agencies, engage in expert and analytical activities, and teach.

The department actively conducts research in several research areas: "Kazakhstan's model of transformation: socio-political context", "Sociology of gender and family", "Sociology of Science, political aspects of the formation of intellectual elites".