Admission rules to bachelor degree of KAU

1. Ka­zakh-Ame­rican Uni­ver­si­ty (KAU) car­ri­es out pre­para­ti­on of ba­chelors on the fol­lo­wing spe­ci­al­ti­es.
050202-In­terna­ti­onal re­lati­ons
050207-Trans­la­ti­onal pro­fici­en­cy
050301-Ju­risp­ru­den­ce
050504- Jo­ur­na­lism
050506-Eco­nomy
050508-Ac­co­un­ting and audi­ting
050509-Fi­nan­cing
050704 –Com­pu­ter en­gi­ne­ering and soft­wa­re
050719-Ra­dio en­gi­ne­ering, elect­ro­nic and te­lecom­mu­nica­ti­ons
050902-To­urism

2. Ad­missi­on to uni­ver­si­ty is car­ri­ed out by the me­ans of sta­te bud­get fi­nan­cing, ac­commo­dated of the sta­te or­der on per­sonnel tra­ining (sta­te edu­cati­onal grants) al­so pa­yment of tra­ining at the ex­pense of ci­tizen’s own funds and re­so­ur­ces.
3. Ad­missi­on to the uni­ver­si­ty is car­ri­ed out by the app­li­cati­ons of the ci­tizen com­pe­titi­ve ba­sis in ac­cordan­ce with the cer­ti­fica­te sco­res, gi­ven out on the re­sults of uni­te na­ti­onal tests (UNT) or comp­lex tes­ting con­ducted ac­cording to the tech­no­logy, wor­ked put by Na­ti­onal cen­ter of sta­te stan­dards of edu­cati­on and tes­ting of Mi­nis­ter of Edu­cati­on and Sci­en­ce of Re­pub­lic of Ka­zakh­stan. Stu­dents pass spe­ci­al and cre­ati­ve exams for tho­se spe­ci­ali­zati­ons which de­mand spe­ci­al or cre­ati­ve pre­para­ti­on.
Unit na­ti­onal tes­ting is con­ducted for scho­ol- le­avers of se­con­da­ry edu­cati­on eve­ry year.
4. Comp­lex tes­ting is con­ducted for pri­or scho­ol- le­avers, stu­dents of ini­ti­al and se­con­da­ry edu­cati­on, scho­ol- le­avers of se­con­da­ry scho­ol, tra­ining on the li­ne of in­terna­ti­onal exc­han­ge of pu­pils ab­ro­ad wit­ho­ut ta­king part in UNT, scho­ol – le­avers from scho­ols which tra­in in Uz­bek, Uigur, Tad­jik lan­gu­ages wit­ho­ut ta­king part in UNT, scho­ol –le­avers of mu­sical scho­ols, par­ti­cipants of in­terna­ti­onal Olym­pi­ad on scho­ol sub­jects of cur­rent year, and fo­re­ign ci­tizens, gra­du­ated edu­cati­onal ins­ti­tuti­on ab­ro­ad.
5.Ad­missi­on to the uni­ver­si­ty of the ci­tizen who gra­du­ated from se­con­da­ry pro­fes­si­onal, high ba­sic edu­cati­on on the al­li­ed spe­ci­al­ty by bri­ef cur­ri­culum on pa­id ba­sis re­ali­zed by Ad­missi­on Bo­ard of uni­ver­si­ty af­ter pas­sing the ent­ran­ce exams in the form of in­tervi­ew. In­di­cated ca­tego­ry of ci­tizens en­te­ring to the spe­ci­al­ty 050504, pass two cre­ati­ve exams (ex­cept tho­se gra­du­ates with al­li­ed spe­ci­al­ti­es).
6. Do­cuments in fo­re­ign lan­gu­ages must ha­ve no­tori­ety af­firma­ti­on.
7. Do­cuments ob­ta­ined by the ab­ro­ad or­ga­niza­ti­ons must be nost­ri­fica­ted in es­tabli­shed or­der.
8. App­li­cati­ons to the cre­ati­ve exams ta­ke pla­ce from 20 Ju­ne till 1 Ju­ly. Qu­an­ti­ty of exams is 2.
Cre­ati­ve exams are con­ducted from 2 to 7 of Ju­ly. By en­te­ring to cre­ati­ve spe­ci­al­ty ad­missi­on of en­roll­ment is ac­comp­li­shed in the lo­cati­on of Uni­ver­si­ty. Ma­ximum qu­an­ti­ty of sco­res along one cre­ati­ve exam is 25. Ent­rants, who ha­ve ta­ken less than 10 sco­res along cre­ati­ve exam or who ha­ven’t be­en at exam, to cre­ati­ve exam for en­te­ring they don’t ad­mit to pre­sent spe­ci­al­ty. Re­take of cre­ati­ve exam isn’t per­mitted. Exa­mina­ti­on work and exa­mina­ti­on pa­per of ent­rants, who ha­ve al­re­ady ta­ken do­cuments, it won’t be gi­ven to uni­ver­si­ty ent­rants and it is li­ab­le to dest­ruc­ti­on.
9. For par­ti­cipa­ti­on in comp­lex tes­ting the ci­tizen sub­mits to the ad­missi­on bo­ard of uni­ver­si­ty the app­li­cati­on on the form of the es­tabli­shed samp­le, the cer­ti­fica­te or the dip­lo­ma abo­ut the gra­du­ation of an ini­ti­al pro­fes­si­onal or tech­ni­cal pro­fes­si­onal edu­cati­onal ins­ti­tuti­on (ori­ginal), the do­cument con­firming the right of pri­ori­ty, the re­ce­ipt on pa­yment for car­ry­ing out of tes­ting, a co­py of the re­ce­ipt on pa­yment of the re­gist­ra­ti­on pa­yment, two pho­tos in the si­ze 3x4 (ac­ting on a spe­ci­al­ty 050504–3 pho­tos), and al­so a co­py of the do­cument with a pho­to, cer­ti­fy­ing the per­son.
10. App­li­cati­on de­ad­li­ne is from 20th of Ju­ne till 9th of Ju­ly. The comp­lex test is held from 17th till 23d of Ju­ly.
11. App­li­cants who co­me to comp­lex tes­ting must show his iden­ti­fy card (pass­port) and per­missi­on to the exa­mina­ti­on.
12. UNT and Comp­lex tes­ting is held ac­cording to the wish of the app­li­cant in Ka­zakh or Rus­si­an in vo­lume of aca­demic prog­ram of se­con­da­ry edu­cati­on:
- for spe­ci­al­ti­es 050504- His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Ka­zakh/ Rus­si­an;
- for spe­ci­al­ti­es 050506, 050508, 050509, 050902 — His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Ka­zakh/ Rus­si­an, Math, Ge­og­raphy;
- for spe­ci­al­ty 050301 – His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Ka­zakh/Rus­si­an Math, World his­to­ry;
- for spe­ci­al­ti­es 050202, 050207 – His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Ka­zakh/Rus­si­an Math, Fo­re­ign lan­gu­age;
- for spe­ci­al­ty 050606 – His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Ka­zakh/Rus­si­an Math, Che­mist­ry;
- for spe­ci­al­ti­es 050704, 050719 –His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan Ka­zakh/Rus­si­an, Math, Phy­sics.
13. The who­le num­ber of tasks in each sub­ject is 25. Right ans­wer of each task is eva­lu­ated as one sco­re.
14. 2 ast­ro­nomic ho­urs 30 min are gi­ven to comp­lex tes­ting. Re­take is not al­lo­wed
15. Co­des of right ans­wers are gi­ven af­ter fi­nis­hing the scan­ning of ans­wer pa­pers, which is held af­ter tes­ting.
16. Pro­ces­sing of the re­sults of comp­lex tes­ting is held in the hig­her scho­ol whe­re comp­lex tes­ting has be­en held.
17. The re­sults of comp­lex tes­ting for re­ce­iving cer­ti­fica­te are exis­ted by sta­te com­missi­on on the day of its pas­sing.
18. Ac­cording to the re­sults of comp­lex tes­ting for eve­ry par­ti­cipant is writ­ten out cer­ti­fica­te of es­tabli­shed samp­le which is gi­ven by sta­te com­missi­on wit­hin 3 da­ys af­ter tes­ting.
19. Ci­tizen who do­esn’t ag­ree with the re­sults of tes­ting has the right to the ap­pe­al.
App­li­cati­on for ap­pe­al is han­ded in the Se­lec­ti­on Bo­ard, con­firmed by the cha­ir­man of sta­te com­missi­on, till 13 0’clock the next day af­ter the an­no­un­ce­ment of the re­sult of tes­ting and is con­si­dered by se­lec­ti­on bo­ard wit­hin day.
For ta­king part in com­pe­titi­on it is ne­ces­sa­ry to ta­ke less than 50 sco­res, inc­lu­ding not less than 7 sco­res along the pro­file sub­jects (not less than 10 sco­res along each cre­ati­ve exam) but along ot­her sub­jects – not less than 3 sco­res
20. En­roll­ment in num­ber of stu­dents is car­ri­ed out by Ad­missi­on bo­ard of uni­ver­si­ty from August 10 till August 25.
In Ad­missi­on Bo­ard of uni­ver­si­ty ci­tizens to the app­li­cati­on for ad­missi­on app­ly the do­cument on the se­con­da­ry edu­cati­on. Ini­ti­al pro­fes­si­onal, tech­ni­cal pro­fes­si­onal or high ba­sic ori­ginal, 6 pho­tos 3*4, a co­py of the re­ce­ipt on pa­yment of a re­gist­ra­ti­on pa­yment, me­dical in­forma­ti­on, form 086-y, sta­te cer­ti­fica­te.
21. For pa­id edu­cati­on gra­du­ating stu­dents of or­ga­niza­ti­on of ge­neral se­con­da­ry edu­cati­on are en­te­red the cur­rent year, who ha­ve pas­sed UNT and par­ti­cipants of comp­lex test, who ha­ve ta­ken the re­sult from test less than 50 sco­res from the fol­lo­wing sub­jects: Ka­zakh, Rus­si­an, His­to­ry of Ka­zakh­stan, Mat­he­matics and cho­osing sub­ject, inc­lu­ding less than 7 sco­res along pro­file sub­ject (less than 10 sco­res along each cre­ati­ve exam), but along ot­her sub­ject – less than 3 sco­res.
En­roll­ment is pro­vided se­para­tely along spe­ci­al­ti­es and lan­gu­age de­part­ments.
En­roll­ment to spe­ci­al­ti­es for whom es­tabli­shed cre­ati­ve exams are con­ducted with sco­res along the­se exams.
22. For ent­rants ha­ving high sco­res in cer­ti­fica­tes on re­sults of UNT or comp­lex tes­ting, and al­so for ent­rants from ne­edy fa­mili­es com­pe­titi­on on edu­cati­onal grants " Scho­lars­hips” is car­ri­ed out in uni­ver­si­ty.
The ow­ners of grant ha­ving re­sults of the first exa­mina­ti­onal term marks on­ly ex­cellent, will con­ti­nue tra­ining un­der grant ac­cording to re­gula­ti­ons abo­ut the or­der of award of the spe­ci­al grant of aca­demy ‘Scho­lars­hip’, ot­herwi­se tra­inees pay for tra­ining in full from the first term of the first co­ur­se.


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