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Welcome to Kazakhstan!

It is the history of the Silk Road and the meeting point of two worlds, the East and the West.

Today Kazakhstan is the leader in Central Asia. The interests of Kazakhstan are aimed at integration into the world community and strengthening the global dialogue, thus creating the platform for cooperation between Europe and Asia.

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Kazakhstan is a beautiful country with boundless steppes, unruffled lakes and high mountain ranges. It is a land of legends, rich culture and traditions. Its nature is also rich in oil and gas reserves.

Welcome to Almaty!

Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan. It is the cultural, educational, financial and economic

center of the Republic. All major universities are in this city, giving it the largest number of

students, the best educational activities and the most active students life.

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Welcome to Alma University!

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Almaty School of Managers was established in

1988, which was reorganized into International

Academy of Business (IAB) in 1996.

In May 2014 IAB has obtained the university

status and new name -

Almaty Management University.

Introduction

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Leader on the market of business education in

Kazakhstan.

The trilingual multi-level system of education: KAZ, RUS, ENG

• Bachelor – 13 programmes

• Master – 6 programmes

• МВА – 10 programmes

• DBA – 3 programmes

• PhD – 1 programme

• Executive Education –

100 programmes

Positioning

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All these years we are developing as a socially responsible

university.

There are a number of socially-friendly activities

being held in accordance with

Principles for Responsible Management Education

Our projects:

An innovative long-term project “Cultural and linguistic camp

“Ulytau”;

International summer session Business Education Teachers

Academy (BETA);

Long-term project “Support to rural teachers”;

Disabled access to premises;

Support of UN Academic Impact initiative.

Social responsibility

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Research

Alma University library

fund

14k+ books

30% of the foreign

literature

18 electronic data

bases

11 mln. information

resources

The main idea of R&D is the comparative and international

aspect; interdisciplinary nature of research and empirical

country-specific research.

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Research

Department for research 13 Research Laboratories, 3 Centres 2 Council and 2 Institutes

1. Tourism Management and Marketing in Kazakhstan 2. Improvement of Accounting and Auditing in the RK 3. Financial Market and Corporate Development 4. Challenges in the Real Sector of Economy 5. Human Capital Measurement 6. Applied Information Systems in Education 7. Laboratory of Intercultural Communication 8. Corporate Social Responsibility 9. Trending aspects of management: local and global approaches 10. Marketing research 11. Modeling Polylingual Communicative Environment 12. Methodology in Research and Development 13. Development of social capital 14. Centre of Mediation and Conflict Studies 15. Centre of Controlling in Business 16. Centre for Improving Business Environment 17. Young Scientists Council 18. Council for Science 19. Education Development Institute 20.Regional Development Institute

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Projects

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1) Research on Evaluation of the contribution of JV "Coca-Cola Almaty Bottlers" in the

development of the national economy of Kazakhstan

2) Research project on the impact of Kazakhstani integration into the Eurasian

Economic Union on the competitiveness of the agricultural sector of the economy

3) Research on Social Entrepreneurship development in Kazakhstan

4) Research on Problems and prospects of transport and logistics systems

integration of the Customs Union countries “

5) Research on Improving the competitiveness of hotel and restaurant services in

anticipation of globally significant international projects ("Expo-2017" and XXVIII

Winter World Universiade-2017): conceptual framework and mechanisms for

implementation

6) Researchers link - Workshop for young researchers

7) Knowledge Management project

8) Regular conferences, round tables and forums on entrepreneurship, business

education and management in education

9) NGO Expert Centre

Students and faculty

2800 BA students

180 MA students

600 MBA students

30 doctoral students

1500 attendees of short-term corporate programmes

243 Total teaching staff:

218 full time, of which:

o 25 Full professors;

o 85 Associate professors;

o 107 Assistant professors.

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MBA programmes:

Management (Kazakhstan) with specialization in:

• Finance • Marketing • Corporate Management • Innovation and Technology

Management

Management in Health Care (Kazakhstan)

General Management (with MSM, Netherlands)

General & Strategic Management (with RANE, Russia)

Management (with SHU, United Kingdom)

Distance MBA programme

DBA programmes

DBA programme (Kazakhstan)

Joint DBA programme with Academy of National Economy and Public Administration of the President of Russian Federation

Bachelor programmes:

Economics

Management

Valuation

Accounting & Audit

Finance

Information Systems

Law

Regional Studies

Logistics

Marketing

Restaurant & Hotel Management

Public Relations

State and Local Governance

Master programmes:

Economics

Management

Finance

Logistics

Marketing

Project Management

Programmes

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PHD programme:

Business Administration

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Executive education

Centre for Consulting and Management

Development offers more than 100 basic programmes in areas such as:

• Management

• Finance

• Leadership and personal growth

• Marketing and sales

• Logistics

• Coaching

• Business Law

CMD specializes in international corporate programmes for

top and senior managers. Which are designed and

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Corporate relations

o Oil & Gas (AGIP, KazMunaiTeniz, Helios, Pavlodar Chemical

Plant, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating b.v)

o Finance (JSC “Kaspi Bank”, KPMG, Bank Center Credit)

o Health care (GlaxoSmith Kline)

o Business (BI Group, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, JSC SkySilk)

o Industry (Air Astana, CapitalPartners, National atomic Co.)

o Education (Kazakh National Conservatory of Kurmangazy,

Kazakh national Academy of Arts, CA recruitment and consulting

agency)

o IT (Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft Kazakhstan, LG Electronics)

o Public (MFA of RK, Ministry of HealthCare of RK)

o and others.

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Board of Trustees

The institution is governed by its Board of Trustees:

o Members are representatives of business, education and science,

Kazakhstan government, recognized international association of

business education and business school

o Functions: assigns Principal, approves annual budget and reports,

designs and approves programmes of long-term development

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The Chairman of the BoT is

Mr. Armanzhan Baitasov, Chairman of the BoD of “UMG” (Forbes

KZ), Kazakhstan.

Board of Trustees The BoT consists of 14 local and 2 international members:

Prof. Virginijus Kundrotas,

President of the BMDA,

Lithuania

Prof. Tan Chin Tiong,

Senior Advisor at

SMU, Singapore

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Museum

- Unique

- Innovative

- Interactive

- User-friendly

- Infographics

- Smart House

- Animation

- QR codes

- Audio guide

- Touch screen photo- and

video-archive

- and many more!

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3 representative offices

around Kazakhstan

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Regional

representatives

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Astana

(capital,

Northern KZ)

Shymkent (Southern KZ)

Atyrau (Western Kz)

Astana

• МВА ( Master of Business Administration).

• МВА distance programme.

• DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) together with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and public Administration

• МВА Corporate Programmes in Astana:

• МВА Corporate Programme of Almaty Management University together with BI Group holding.

• Corporate EMBA Programme on «Strategic Management» for ENRC (Joint programme with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and public Administration )

• Corporate Programme «Management in health protection» together with the Ministry of Health of Republic of Kazakhstan

• МВА Joint programme of Almaty Management University with АКМ (construction company)

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Atyrau

• МВА (Master of Business Administration)

• School of Public Policy programmes (SPP)

• МВА programme: Management in public sector

• МВА programme : Management in education

• МВА programme: Management in NGO

• Distance programmes – second degree

• Open and corporate business seminars and trainings

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Shymkent

• МВА (Master of Business Administration)

• МВА (Master of Business Administration) Kazakh language track

• School of Public Policy programmes (SPP)

• МВА programme: Management in public sector

• МВА programme : Management in education

• МВА programme: Management in NGO

• Distance programmes

• Open and corporate business seminars and trainings

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• IQA (International Quality

Accreditation) by CEEMAN in 2010

• Accreditation by AMBA in 2013

• Accreditation from the Independent

Kazakhstan Agency on Quality

Assurance in Education under

Ministry of Education and

Science of the Republic of

Kazakhstan in 2014

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Accreditation

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o In 2013 EDUNIVERSAL has

awarded ALMA University with 4 out of 5 Palmes

for being “Top Business School”,

leader in business education in Central Asia (top

300 best business schools in the world)

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Rankings

o No.1 for “Management” Master programme and No.2 for

“Management” and “Marketing” Bachelor programmes in 2013 in

Ranking of educational programs of Kazakhstan universities.

o ALMA University is in the top 3 best humanities and

economic universities of Kazakhstan by

the National Ranking in 2014.

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o “The Best employer of 2011” (Senim-2011).

o “The Best Enterprise” in Ministry of Culture of RK contest “For a

contribution in the development of civil society”.

o Designer for MBA and DBA state standards chosen by Ministry of

Education and Science of RK (MES RK) in 2012.

o 32 faculty and staff members have obtained the “Bolashak”

international scholarship of the President of RK (the largest number

of scholarship holders among private HEIs).

o 2 professors were awarded as The Best Teacher-2011 and The

Best Teacher-2013 with 29 000 euro granted for research

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National standing

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o Co-founder of the Consortium of the strongest universities in

Kazakhstan, which included 8 top universities, aimed at making

recommendations to the MES RK on promoting universities autonomy and

academic freedom, research activity, modernization of higher education, in

accordance with international best practices.

o 9 students are included in the "100 Best students of Almaty" catalogue

o Awards of European Business Association of Kazakhstan (EUROBAK) for

social projects "Support for rural schools universities in the country" (2013)

and "The Republican Contest ZACHOT" (2014) in the field of corporate

social responsibility

oOnly HEI in Almaty implementing Anti-plagiarism

programme for all students assignments and faculty papers

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National standing

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o The National Quality Mark «Stainless» from National Consumers

League (2010);

o Award of Eurasian Business Forum "Topzhargan" ("Breakthrough")

recognition from the Kazakhstani employees in 2014;

o The founder and President was awarded by the Jubilee Medal "20

years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2011), and

the highest state award "Kurmet" Medal of Honour of the Republic of

Kazakhstan (2013).

oChampions Award by CEEMAN (International Association for

Management Development in Dynamic Societies) for “institutional

management” in 2014

o “Best social partner” at the «Orleu-2014» contest 2014

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Awards

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60 partner universities from 22 countries: UK, Netherlands,

Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, USA and Canada.

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International collaboration

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Our students study on double degree and exchange

programmes:

7 Bachelor programmes in: NEOMA Business School,

IESEG, Solbridge International Business School, Taylor’s

University, Geneva Business School, Management Centre

Innsbruck (MCI) and etc.;

3 MBA programmes in: Maastricht School of Management,

Sheffield Hallam University, RANE&PA;

1 DBA programme in RANE&PA.

Master students go for internships to ISM University of

Management and Economics, AUCA and etc.

International programmes

EFMD, PRME, CEEMAN, RABE, BMDA, AAPBS,

AACSB, AMBA’s, Talloires Network, UN Academic

Impact, Magna Charta, NAFSA, CAMAN, EUROBAK,

AmCham and ACFAK.

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Associations Membership

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o Successful business model of world-class

university

o Knowledge management model in the university.

o Socially responsible university.

o Excellent IT; well-developed distance education

o Innovation management in Kazakhstan.

o University-based Business Incubator & venture

fund

o Business research and management consulting

services in the Eurasian Economic Union

Leadership

within Eurasian Economic Union

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Stage I of Development in 2014-2015:

•School of Public Policy (BSc, MA, PhD);

•Business School (программы MBA, программы DBA);

•School of Accounting, Finance and Management (BSc, MA,

PhD);

•Law School (LLB, LLM, JD);

•School of Humanities and Social Sciences (BSc, MA, PhD);

•School of Education (MA, PhD);

Stage II of development in 2015-2019:

•School of Advanced Engineering and Computer Science (BSc,

MS, PhD);

•School of Art and Media Management (BSc, MA, PhD)

Development plans

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o Atrium - 2015.

o Halls of residence and hotel - 2017.

o Innovation and Research Centre - 2019.

o University campus project- 2020.

Infrastructure development

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Invitation

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