• In Kostanay state university of A.Baytursynov educational process is conducted on internal and correspondence forms of education. On specialties of legal and economic faculties training of specialists is carried out with use of distance technology of training.
• Training is provided in the Kazakh and Russian languages. Within implementation of the program of polylingual education specialties with studying of disciplines in three languages are open: part of disciplines – in the Kazakh language, part – in Russian, part – in English. These are the specialties "Foreign Philology", "Translation Studies", "Regional studies", "Computer Facilities and Software", "Transport, Transport Equipment and Technologies".
• In university the persons having the general average (an average the general), technical and professional (initial and average professional) and the higher education are accepted.
• Reception is carried out on the budgetary basis through participation in competition on the state educational grants, and also on a contractual basis by training payment at the expense of means of the enterprises, the organizations, funds or own means of citizens.
• Training on the main educational program is carried out in an internal form where the citizens can enter only participating in uniform national testing and complex testing of applicants according to points of certificates
• The reception of citizens on the specialty "Journalism" is carried out taking into account two creative examinations.
• Reception on the reduced educational program for graduates of colleges is carried out by results of complex testing according to points of certificates of CT. Thus, transfer is carried out only on related specialties of the higher education on the Table of correspondences of specialties of the higher and postgraduate education and professions and specialties of the technical and professional, postsecondary education, the Republic of Kazakhstan approved by the Ministry of Education and Science.
• The reception of citizens on the basis of the higher education is carried out by results of interview on tuition by correspondence of economic and legal specialties and the specialties "Psychology" and "Philology (the Kazakh Language)".

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