Educational programs

6В04201 - Judicial and prosecutorial activities: bachelor's degree. The program is innovative, aimed at training bachelors in the field of judicial, prosecutorial, law enforcement activities and the provision of qualified legal assistance to strengthen the rule of law and order. In the course of training, the student will learn to apply legal norms in accordance with substantive and procedural law, legal facts and legal situations; organize and professionally participate in jurisdictional proceedings; analyze the composition of the offense by elements, qualify a socially dangerous act, determine the types and forms of guilt, obligations and responsibility; make decisions on matters of fact and law. The student will have the skill to draw up documents and carry out professional communication using the necessary argumentation, professional discourse.

The student will study such relevant disciplines as the methodology of resolving civil disputes, legal psychology, countering cybercrime, the basics of forensic medicine and psychiatry, forensic science and forensic science.

Graduates of the educational program receive a bachelor's degree in law and can work in the field of civil service, law enforcement and judicial authorities, human resources, legal departments, advocacy, forensic science.

7М04207803 – Forensic and prosecutorial activities: master’s degree. The program is innovative, aimed at training management, scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel for legal, law enforcement, universities and scientific organizations. Two directions of training are offered: profile (one year of study) and scientific and pedagogical (2 years of study). In the process of training, the undergraduate will learn how to conduct scientific research, teach, find and solve theoretical and practical problems of qualification of criminal offenses, critically examine the current legislation and the practice of its application, develop scientific proposals for improving the current law, predict trends in the further development of criminal legislation, critically analyze the current norms law, to identify patterns and causes of criminal behavior and criminal offenses, to apply in professional activities the provisions of various criminological theories of crime.

The master's student will study such topical disciplines as innovative methods of researching criminal behavior, the legal nature of a criminal offense (in English), international standards in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing (in English), criminological theories, applied issues of qualification of criminal offenses.

Graduates of specialized training receive a master's degree in law and can work in law enforcement and special government agencies, the prosecutor's office, and courts. Those who have graduated from the scientific and pedagogical direction of the magistracy can teach at the university, engage in research activities.

7М04207804 – «Combating money laundering and financing of terrorism and economic security», master's degree. The program is innovative and double-diploma: implemented jointly with the National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" (Russia). A scientific and pedagogical direction with a training period of 2 years is offered. The program is aimed at training managerial and scientific-pedagogical personnel for the field of combating illegal income and financing of terrorism. In the process of training, the undergraduate will learn how to conduct scientific research, teach; analyze national legislation from the standpoint of the possibilities for the implementation of international standards in the field of combating crime and money laundering; apply skills in working with regulatory and legal documents in the field of banking; develop a set of measures to ensure the financial security of the bank and prevent threats of committing offenses in the economic sphere; conduct financial investigations using knowledge in the field of economic security, financial security of banks; organize and control the execution of primary financial monitoring in the field of professional activity.

The master's student will study such relevant disciplines as economic security, competitive intelligence, the basics of risk management, countering transnational crime, financial investigations and international standards in the field of countering.

Graduates receive two diplomas: a master's degree in law from KarU named after E.A. Buketov and a master's degree at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute under the program "Economic Security". They can teach at university level, engage in research activities, work as financial analysts in the field of counteraction, compliance officers, security officers in the banking sector, employees of the Financial Monitoring Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, anti-corruption service and economic investigation service. They can also teach at university, and engage in research activities.

8D04201 - «Jurisprudence», doctoral studies. The program is aimed at training highly qualified personnel for the scientific and pedagogical academic environment. During the training, the doctoral student will conduct a scientific research; learn to teach, carry out a critical, conceptual analysis of the state of theoretical and applied problems in the field of jurisprudence; identify patterns in the legal field; put forward scientifically grounded and empirically tested hypotheses and proposals for improving legislative and law enforcement practice; carry out doctrinal analysis and interpretation of current legislation; to develop concepts and drafts of legal acts. The doctoral student will study such disciplines as academic writing, methods of scientific research, kratology (the science of power), problems of implementing criminal policy, issues of reforming the activities of executive authorities at the present stage, issues of reforming constitutional legislation (in English).

Graduates receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree and will be able to teach in universities, and work in research institutes.