The DGov is a 4 - 5 year professional doctoral programme. It provides public policy-makers and public sector managers with advanced knowledge and high-level critical skills that their professional lives demand.

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.