About Us
In 1930, the Kazakh Agricultural Institute (KazAI) was founded in Alma-Ata. Initially, the institute had 2 faculties (grain and industrial crops), 11 departments, where 131 students studied, and 42 teachers worked. The first graduation took place in 1933 where 78 people received higher education (including 20 Kazakhs), of whom 51 are agronomists and 27 are fruit growers.
During World War II, about 30 teachers went to the front. During these years, scientists evacuated to Alma-Ata worked at the institute: AI Dushechkin, AA Vasilenko and others. From 1930 to 1950, the institute trained 17 graduates of specialists: 1549 people. Many of them became prominent party and state leaders, heads of farms. In 1950, six faculties began to function within the institute and a five-year term of study was introduced.[4] By 1970, 11,284 students studied at the Kazakh Agricultural Institute, including 4,247 in the full-time department. The teaching staff included 511 people. Personnel training was carried out in 15 specialties. In 1971, Kazakh Agricultural Institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. From 1985 to 1995, the institute had already 12 faculties.
In 1981–1982, over 10 thousand students studied at the institute, 541 teachers worked, including 2 corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, corresponding member of the VASKhNIL, 21 professors and doctors of sciences, 222 associate professors and candidates of sciences.
Faculties
- Faculty of Agrobiology and Phytosanitary
- Faculty of Technology and Bioresources
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of forestry, land resources and horticulture
- Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering, Land Reclamation and Business
- Faculty of Engineering
