Uniting Successful Graduates

13:00, May 16, 2014

Honorable graduates of UrFU from Kazakhstan establish their own organization

The representative office of UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association will be established in Kazakhstan. The Constituent Assembly, which will opened by a graduate of Mecganical Faculty of UPI, now the chairman of the National Security Comittee of Kazakhstan, Nurtai Abykayev, will be held at 16:00 on May 20 in Astana at the Kazakh National Academy of Science (Prospekt Respubliki, 24).

"Partnership is a guarantee of success of the university and its alumni, is sure UFU rector Viktor Koksharov. - Ural Federal University provides quality education and creates a special space of friendly business relations. Kazakhstan can be proud of several generations of UPI and USU graduates, which implement the most ambitious projects aimed to develop the country."

At the moment the number of students from Kazakhstan at UrFU is 155, there are 25 agreements between UrFU and Kazakh universities. Over the past two years, nearly 300 students from Kazakhstan were trained at UrFU during the semester on the programs of SCO University and academic exchange.

UrFU develops partnership with one of the leading universities of the republic, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. At the moment the university works in the establishing of the double degree programs in collaboration the partner, as a result the graduates of both universities will receive two diplomas, diploma of Urals Federal University and diploma of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

In March 2013 and January 2014 the talented school students from Kazakhstan had a unique opportunity to "test" the student life at UrFU within the frames of the "Test Drive" project. Since 2013, the talented freshmen from Kazakhstan, who got high score at the Unified State Exam, receive a higher scholarship.