The Master's program of the Business School "Financial Analysis" is the only program in Kazakhstan and Central Asia officially recognized by the CFA Institute, USA. The training program is designed so that master's students receive the knowledge necessary to pass the CFA exam. The university also provides grants to its best students to pass the CFA exam.

The program intends to prepare graduates for jobs in growing priority sectors in Kazakhstan, including multiple manufacturing sectors, such as machinery, energy, chemistry, electronics, and innovation. Graduates of the program will have advanced research skills that would enable them to explore important questions in intelligent systems and make significant ongoing contributions in technologically diverse and dynamic economic environments, both in Kazakhstan and abroad.

The content of "Jurisprudence" are courses "Methodology of legal analysis," "problems of qualification of crimes against property," "Theory and practice of civil and civil procedure legislation," "Current state and trends of administrative law of the Republic of Kazakhstan," "Features of pre-trial investigation," "Problems of public administration and public service in the Republic of Kazakhstan at the present stage," etc.

The program's purpose is to train and retrain professionally qualified nursing specialists in demand in the labor market of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The purpose of the educational program is to train competitive specialists in the education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the fundamental knowledge to implement pedagogical activities in the field of biology teaching.

The content of the educational program at the doctoral speciality 8D04103 «State and local management" constitute such disciplines as "Public administration economic security of Kazakhstan," "Globalization and its impact on the main economic processes," "The theory of social management" and others.

Qualifications and positions are determined under the Qualification Reference Book of the Positions of Managers, Specialists, and Other Employees by the approved order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan: Pharmacist-technologist; Process engineer; Lecturer; junior researcher; Director of operations.

The Master’s program in Food Biotechnology combines a Master’s program at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and Master’s program at ISA Lille, France. It creates opportunities to gain more international knowledge and experience in food science, bioprocesses, and technologies of food manufacture.

Life Sciences is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area of sciences that aligns with priority science and technology needs for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Ph.D. program can be compared in scope and structure to available programs in internationally leading academic institutions. The Ph.D. in Life Sciences will provide excellent instruction in core and elective subjects and will train modern high-quality life science experts which are in high demand for both existing as well as anticipated industries in Kazakhstan. The program’s research focus in combination with pedagogical training that is in compliance with the Graduate Programs Framework of Nazarbayev University (NU) has the potential to attract regional and international students to the program.

The BEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering program follows the outcome-based teaching and learning approach.  Given the special emphasis of the Nazarbayev University to be a leader in the Education within Kazakhstan and to be respected internationally, the program will focus on skill development that enables our graduates to compete internationally in the job market, research, and to be entrepreneurs who lead change in the local contexts. The program positions itself as the leading ECE program in Kazakhstan, by integrating inquiry, research, and projects in solving relevant problems facing society today. The students in the program get exposed to the research activities in any of the four research groups in the department: (1) Circuits and Systems, (2) Communications and Signal Processing, (3) Power Systems, and (4) Computer Engineering.

The program is the first undergraduate Robotics and Mechatronics degree program in Kazakhstan. It is also one of the first Robotics and Mechatronics programs in the world. The program will educate young engineers for working with the latest intelligent robotics and mechatronics systems in different industries, creating local robotics and mechatronics companies and preparing them for graduate work.

The institute of arts, culture, and sport of the Abay Kazakh National pedagogical university is a successor of Abay Kazakh Pedagogical Institute, which was the first and until recently only specialized educational institution in the field of professional art education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The institute conducts training of artists, musicians, choreographers, designers, and teachers of physical education.

The Ph.D. program in Physics in the School of Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at Nazarbayev University (NU) is designed to provide advanced skills and a knowledge base at an expert level for individuals planning a career in academia, industry, and research settings in Kazakhstan and abroad. The program focuses on the enhancement of knowledge by advanced courses and development of research skills at a high level.

Kazakhstan ranks among the top 20 countries in reserves and supply of most minerals in the world and is the world’s leading producer of uranium, and has the world’s largest reserves of chromium. The BSc Mining Engineering program is designed to focus on training the mining engineer of the future, and to produce mining engineers who will extract the country’s vast mineral resources safely, economically and environmentally responsibly.

Nazarbayev University School of Medicine (NUSOM) was established to improve the quality of medical education in the Republic of Kazakhstan and to contribute to the transformation of the health care system required to meet the challenges of the health care reform of the country. It will offer the Republic’s first U.S.-style curriculum, taught in English by a diverse faculty of clinicians and biomedical scientists recruited from around the globe.