The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), a leading Russian university affiliated to Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has officially opened a branch at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana.
On November 1, the inaugural class of 103 students at the new MGIMO Astana campus received their student ID cards from Kazakhstan’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, Sayasat Nurbek, and MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov.
According to Torkunov, the academic programs at the Astana branch are designed to train specialists for key sectors of Kazakhstan’s economy, business, and international relations.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education reported that MGIMO Astana currently offers two undergraduate programs, World Mineral Resources and Energy Markets and Analysis and Modeling of Socioeconomic and Business Processes, as well as two master’s programs: Financial Economics and Financial Technologies and Multilateral Institutions and Management of Global Technological Development.
Artem Malgin, director of the MGIMO Astana branch, noted that undergraduate students will spend two semesters studying in Moscow, while master’s students will study there for one semester. Courses at the branch are taught by faculty from both MGIMO and the Eurasian National University.
MGIMO Astana is the university’s second international campus. Its first overseas branch, MGIMO Tashkent, opened in Uzbekistan and currently offers six undergraduate and graduate programs tailored to the local academic context and taught by MGIMO faculty.
