Today a list of educational grants for the 2024-2025 academic year was published for all levels of higher education. This year, 112 thousand grants were allocated for studying at universities.
The largest number of grants was received by the group of educational programs “Engineering, manufacturing, construction industries”, their number is 19,344 grants. Further, “Pedagogical Sciences” – 13,735 grants, “Information and Communication Technologies” – 10,903 grants, “Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics” – 8,288 grants.
This year, differentiated grants with partial payment of tuition fees were introduced for the first time. 150 differentiated grants were allocated for the state educational program “Pedagogical Sciences” and “Social Sciences, Journalism and Information”.
Also, 3,903 grants have been allocated for applicants under the Serpin program. It is worth noting that the Serpin project offers education in 4 areas of training: pedagogical sciences, engineering, information technology, and agriculture. Rural youth from the southern regions of the country participate in the program. Previously, the period for working out the grant was reduced from 3 to 2 years, and the place for working out was expanded to 11 regions.
The list of grants also includes 5,000 targeted educational grants for training in leading universities for young people from densely populated, newly formed and western regions, including for applicants from Atyrau and Mangistau regions.
In total, about 79 thousand grants have been allocated for undergraduate admission in the 2024-2025 academic year.
About 13 thousand grants have been allocated for admission to master's programs, and more than 1,900 for admission to doctoral studies.
A complete list of distribution of educational grants for the 2024-2025 academic year is posted on the website of the National Testing Center of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the following links:
Bachelor's degree https://testcenter.kz/ru/press-tsentr/novosti/?ELEMENT_ID=6920
Master's degree https://testcenter.kz/ru/press-tsentr/novosti/?ELEMENT_ID=6921
Doctoral studies https://testcenter.kz/ru/press-tsentr/novosti/?ELEMENT_ID=6922
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