Studying in Kazakhstan
- universities
- 4
- courses
- 72
- English-taught
- 72
- scholarships
- 1
StudyPath lists 4 universities in Kazakhstan and 72 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$5,544 a year, at AITU. 3 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-08-26.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
21 courses here, across 3 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:
Most students, including most international students, pay Nazarbayev University's full published tuition — NU does not offer a KAIST-style scholarship that covers tuition for virtually every admitted student. A merit-based 'Abai (Abay Kunanbayev) Scholarship' exists for top international candidates, recommended by each school's admissions committee, and…
“Abai Scholarship There are merit-based Abay Kunanbayev scholarships available for top international candidates, as recommended by the admissions committee of each school. This scholarship covers the tuition fee, medical insurance, and a monthly stipend.”
Nazarbayev University · read from General Information | International Admission - Nazarbayev University. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.
What it costs
Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.
What it costs to live
Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.
- Nazarbayev UniversityAstanaKZT 18,300–KZT 40,600per month
- IITUAlmatyKZT 35,000per month
How Kazakhstan compares with other countries
Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.
| Kazakhstan | Among countries | Range across countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything | ~US$5,500at AITU | 45th lowest of 64 countries | ~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong) |
| Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students | None | 7 countries have some | 931 in Germany at most |
| Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site | ~US$487at Nazarbayev University | 17th lowest of 66 countries | Free (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland) |
Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.
Universities in Kazakhstan
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.