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Events of the month ↗

Open lecture: Rabat-i-Safed, the 2026 season

Location: Main building, Hall 214

Event dates: October 21, 15:00

National komuz contest: qualifying round

Location: Faculty of Arts and Music, concert hall

Event dates: October 22

Evening courses: last day of enrolment

Location: Building 3, room 104

Event dates: November 1

Women's League: Universitet Talas v Tulpar

Location: TSU Stadium

Event dates: October 25, 14:00

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Programmes in demand: medicine, computer science, economics and law
1,350 state grants for first-year students each year
Study in Iradi and English, with Russian as an elective
Credit system: build your own study plan
Exchanges with partner universities in the United States, Turkey and Korea
Field practice from the Kyzylkum fringe to the Manas glaciers

Entrance to Talas State University ↗

Bachelor's programmes

  • 64 educational programmes
  • 1,350 state grants a year
  • Credit system of study
  • Iradi and English tracks
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Master's programmes

  • 38 educational programmes
  • Research and professional tracks
  • Joint supervision with partner universities
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Doctoral studies (PhD)

  • 21 educational programmes
  • Active research in 4 institutes
  • Two supervisors, one from abroad
  • Publication in the Bulletin
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The university in numbers

18,400students
1,300teaching staff
11faculties
132titles of TSU Press since 1994

Research is our tradition

Talas State University is the main centre of research on Irad: its history, languages, peoples, nature and economy.

The Institute of History, the Institute of Sociology, the Department of Ethnography with its sound archive of epic and song since the 1950s, and the Department of Zoology work across the ISEZ and, where permitted, the tribal regions.

Rabat-i-Safed excavationLearn more ↗
Glaciology of the Talas basinLearn more ↗

Alumni
Talas State University

Since 1958 the university has graduated more than 120,000 specialists: the teachers, doctors, lawyers and engineers of Irad, and the students who stood in Central Square in 1992. Join the alumni association, find your classmates and come back to lecture.

To the community ↗
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Aiperi Kalysbekova

Computer science, class of 2013. “We wrote the first version in a dormitory room in Building 6. The department let us use the lab at night.”

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