8D04102 - Economics
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Name of the educational program |
8D04102 Economics |
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Classification of education area |
8D04 Business, Management and Law |
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Classification of training areas |
8D041 Business and Management |
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Group of educational programs |
D070 Economics |
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Purpose |
The purpose of the educational program is high-quality training of professional personnel with attitudes and values that meet the current requirements of the local and global labor market, with in-depth skills in the use of IT in the economy, capable of solving problems in the development of the digital economy, e-business and commerce using digital resources. |
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Language of instruction |
kazakh/ russian / english |
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Volume of credits |
180 |
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Academic degree to award |
Dr. PhD "8D04102 Economics"
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Learning outcomes |
Upon completion of this program, it is expected that doctoral students will be able to: ON1 - to develop working curricula, Educational and methodical complex of disciplines in supervised disciplines and other educational and methodical materials, to supervise theses, research work of students and undergraduates, write reviews on the final qualifying work; - improve practical experience, professional qualifications, pedagogical skills; - to teach economic disciplines on the basis of a student-centered approach, effectively using information, communication and interactive technologies in order to establish a new culture of pedagogical thinking. ON2 - identify and formulate relevant scientific problems, develop a program of research and development; - to search, collect, process, analyze and systematize information on the research topic; - acquire practical research skills; - conduct economic expertise of scientific, scientific and technical projects with the provision of a reasoned expert opinion; - substantiate and express their own ideas, the main provisions of the research topic in publications in domestic and foreign publications and reports at international conferences and seminars. ON3 - to interpret general scientific and special methods in the study of phenomena and laws of the economic sphere; - to carry out research of the phenomena, regularities of economy as a whole, financial and economic activity of the enterprises, firms, research organizations, using General scientific and special methods; - perform economic research, demonstrating the ability to generalize, analyze, perceive information, setting goals and choosing ways to achieve it. ON4 - to classify modern methods and approaches of macroeconomic research; - to justify the use of mathematical models for the forecast of the dynamics of Kazakhstan's economy (growth rates, GDP, inflation, unemployment, exchange rate, etc.), the international economy; - identify the causes of crisis phenomena at the level of the national economy, on a global scale; - develop models, criteria, indicators for assessing the quality of human capital; - identify priorities and prospects for the development of training of qualified personnel in the context of globalization in the Republic of Kazakhstan. ON5 - to explain the reasons for the stable dynamic equilibrium model of economic growth; - classify and apply economic growth models; - substantiate the role and importance of public policy to maintain the dynamic balance of the national economy as a whole and its important sectors; - to analyze and evaluate the methods of classification of industries and industries by the level of science intensity used in the world practice; - evaluate and apply modern concepts of innovation development and economic growth models. ON6 - to substantiate the factors of long-term economic growth in various dimensions: economic, environmental, demographic, political, social; - explain the impact of factors that have recently come into the focus of researchers: culture, income and wealth inequality, armed conflict, ethnic heterogeneity, the quality of the state; - to demonstrate the knowledge of methodological, theoretical foundations of the theory of sustainable development of countries with different political economic structure. ON7 - analyze the effectiveness of the current state of enterprises, industries and complexes of the country with the use of modern methods of analysis, processing and transmission of information in the field of statistics and econometric modeling; - to apply statistical and econometric methods of analysis for the development and preparation required in professional activities policies, development plans, improvement of management, explanation of the relationship of economic phenomena. ON8 - explain the formulation and formulation of approaches to solving the problem of risk assessment in the management of business structures; - to substantiate the methodology of business processes development in industry, enterprises, financial institutions, taking into account financial, investment, currency and other risks; - to analyze the domestic and foreign experience of risk management of economic entities in their own research. ON9 - demonstrate skills in organizing and presenting statistics; - to classify the modern methods of the restoration of dependencies; - to substantiate the importance of models and methods of statistical data processing for use in their economic research in a priori statistical uncertainty inherent in real statistical experiments; - to analyze statistical hypotheses for use in their own economic research. ON10 - to substantiate the factors of economic growth and the role of the state in its provision; - classify the main stages, types and models of economic growth; - analyze and evaluate the modernization of specific countries and regions; - to analyze the features and problems of Kazakhstan's economy (industry, agriculture, financial sector, etc.) and to justify the prospects of economic growth in Kazakhstan, increasing their export potential, predicting the situation of the world market. ON11 - to demonstrate knowledge of the history, features and forecasts of researchers to prove their competence in a specialized field of Economics; - operate with a large amount of information collected from various sources; - to substantiate and develop a qualified expert opinion on various aspects of economic activity, using modern research methods; - summarize the results of the examination in protocols and other documents. ON12 - to communicate in the creative team, to have a systematic thinking, the ability to train, self-development, making non-standard decisions in a particular situation; - to cooperate within interdisciplinary teams (ability to communicate with specialists from other fields); - to insist on your own point of view, to convince opponents; - demonstrate leadership skills; - speak foreign languages and metalanguage writing skills and build a scientific text for the development of doctoral students of a foreign language communicative competency, necessary for solving communicative problems in communication situations in the academic environment. |
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For applicants |
Welcome.kaznu.kz https://welcome.kaznu.kz/ru/education_programs/doctorate/speciality/1607 |
Academic activities
Academic activities under the educational program are regulated by the Academic Policy of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and implemented within the framework of existing regulatory documents and methodological recommendations in the field of higher education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The implementation of the EP "8D04102 - Economics" is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the state mandatory standard of postgraduate education, the rules for organizing the educational process on credit technology of training, qualification requirements for licensing educational activities.
Within the framework of the educational program 8D04102- "Economics", the use of credit technology is provided, which makes it possible to successfully implement the principles of the Bologna process. The educational program of the doctoral program is developed according to a modular system, using the ECTS credit system in order to focus on the competencies of graduates as the final result of educational activities.
The emphasis of the program is on basic scientific and pedagogical training aimed at the formation of universal and professional competencies of graduates. The program consists of a mandatory component and an optional component, assumes fundamental educational, methodological and research training. The educational program 8D04102 - Economics is carried out jointly with the Institute of Economics of the KN of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the process of developing a modular structuring of the educational program, the content of the program itself, the Catalog of disciplines and educational and methodological complex of the discipline is updated taking into account the requirements of the labor market and employers, as well as modern trends in economic development.
Educational and methodological documentation within the framework of the implementation of EP 8D04102 – Economics are undergoing internal and external expertise. Systematic monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the quality assurance policy is carried out with the participation of students, staff and other stakeholders on the basis of systematic collection, analysis and management of information in order to improve the content of the EP by online questionnaires.
The implementation of the EP "8D04102 - Economy" is provided with free access to international information networks, electronic databases, library collections, computer technologies, educational and methodological and scientific literature. EP "8D04102 - Economics" is provided with authorized access to scientific electronic databases provided in open access - through the university's website (www.kaznu.kz), reference and search databases "Thomson Reuters", Scopus, Elsevier, Springer.
The educational program "8D04102 - Economics" is aimed at training highly qualified, competitive in the domestic and international labor market specialists who meet the modern demands of science, education, management and production; with comprehensive knowledge in the field of economics and related disciplines; capable of independently creatively planning and carrying out original fundamental and applied research, synthesizing and integrating innovative knowledge to solve scientific and industrial problems in the economy and related fields, contributing to scientific and technological progress, socio-economic and cultural development of society.
Scientific activity
The training program is based on a set of disciplines and research work of a doctoral student. Doctoral students are given the opportunity to attend additional courses within the framework of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which allow them to expand the scientific and methodological training of doctoral students. The Center for Economic Research holds special scientific and methodological seminars for doctoral students with individual speeches and presentations of doctoral students on their dissertations, which allow improving the quality and consistency of their research. The scientific and methodological seminars will be attended by leading professors of the Faculty of Economics, as well as invited experts from leading government and analytical organizations, research institutes, and business structures. A number of disciplines of the program are taught in English, including by invited foreign professors from leading universities of the world.
The teaching staff of the EP is represented by highly qualified specialists in the field of macroeconomic analysis, economic research methodologies, sustainable economic development, green economy, risk assessment, statistical and econometric analysis. The high publication activity of teaching staff in highly rated publications included in the leading information bases of the world testifies to the scientific and theoretical training of teaching staff. The high H-index of the PPP according to the Web of science and Scopus database is 5, the number of citations is more than 80. Teachers participate in the implementation of republican programs and research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 90% of the teaching staff involved in the implementation of EP 8D04102- "Economics" are managers of scientific projects, or performers of these studies.
To date, the teaching staff of the department is implementing the following research projects:
1) a project within the framework of grant financing of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Creative industries: methodological aspects of classification and quantitative measurements in the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2020-2023). Scientific adviser: PhD, ass. professor Zhuparova A.S.
2) a project within the framework of grant financing of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan "The independence of the central bank and the achievement of the inflation target" (2021-2022). Scientific adviser: Doctor of Economics, Professor Mukhamediyev B.M.
3) a project within the framework of grant financing of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Private capital market in Kazakhstan, prospects for its development" (2021-2022). Scientific adviser: PhD, Art. teacher Rakhmatullayeva D.Zh.
International activity
The educational program provides a high level of general cultural and professional competencies of doctoral students, their competitiveness in the labor market, provides them with the opportunity to study at leading foreign universities under the academic mobility program.
Foreign professors are actively involved in the educational process of implementing the EP "8D04102 – Economics".
International cooperation is underway with the following universities, which are among the TOP 500 universities in the world: University of Padua (IT) Department of Historical, Geographical and Antiquity Sciences; La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy); Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland); Oxford “Environment Europa” (Great Britain); The University of Memphis (USA); The University of Kansas Lawrence (USA); the consultancy company of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW); University of Ecology and Management (Poland); Management and Science University (Malaysia); University of Finance and Administration (Чехия); Bialystok University of Technology (Poland)
The Department of Economics is constantly actively working to expand the geography of attracting foreign scientific consultants for doctoral dissertations and academic mobility of students
Quality assurance (Accreditation, rating, work with employers)
The educational program of the doctoral program "8D04102 - Economics" is accredited by the Kazakhstan Society of Engineering Education (KAZSEE) until 2026. Until 2020 , it was accredited by the international agency FIBAA
According to the results of 2021, the educational program "8D04102 - Economy" ranks 4th in the NAAR rating.
The Department of Economics has a wide geography of practice bases in the context of cities and regions of Kazakhstan, as well as abroad for foreign students. These are mainly institutions and organizations of the state and quasi-public sectors (district departments of economics and finance, state revenue departments, business departments, treasury departments, etc.), small and large enterprises and private sector firms, commercial banks, joint ventures and branches of foreign companies on the territory of the republic. The main bases of practices in the implementation of the EP "8D04102 - Economics": the Department of Economics of the HSE KazNU named after al-Farabi; the Research Institute "Gylym Ordasy", the Research Center "SANJ", the Autonomous Cluster Fund "Park of Innovative Technologies", the Scientific and Technological Park of KazNU named after al-Farabi.
To date, work is underway to conclude a Memorandum of Cooperation between the Higher School of Economics and Business and the Department of Digitalization of the city of Almaty. The memorandum will allow doctoral students to undergo internships and professional practices on the basis of this institution and promote the employment of future graduates.