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SDU University

Other name	SDU
Type	Private
Established	17 December 1996; 28 years ago (1996-12-17)
Rector	Alimzhan Igenbayev
Location	Kaskelen, Karasay District, Almaty , Kazakhstan
Website	www.sdu.edu.kz

SDU University is an international and private university in Kaskelen, Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is named after Süleyman Demirel, the former prime minister and president of Turkey.

The university was established in 1996, by the initiatives of the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the former president of Turkey, Süleyman Demirel.

As of November 2024,^[2] SDU offers 61 educational programs, including: - 29 undergraduate programs, - 24 master's programs, - 8 doctoral programs.

The university has a trilingual education system (English Medium Instruction based), according to which 70% of educational programs are taught in English and 30% are available in English, Kazakh or Russian. Training is conducted according to the ECTS system (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The university boasts 8,500 students, including students from Central Asia, China, Russia, Mongolia, Indonesia. The university collaborates with 70 universities globally, under the Erasmus program and other academic mobility and student's exchange programs^[3]

https://sdu.edu.kz/language/en/business-school/

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https://sdu.edu.kz/language/en/center-of-multidisciplinary-eduation/

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