Scientific directions of activity of faculty of oriental studies include a wide spectrum of questions of linguistics and literary criticism, history and modern lines of economic and political development of the Arabian countries, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Korea, Japan. Interests of researchers mention actual problems of the countries of the East in comparison to similar aspects of Kazakhstan.

The Department professors are the permanent participants of university, republican and international scientific and methodic conferences, symposiums and seminars. 

Financial maintenance НИР of faculty basically is carried out at the expense of grants of various foreign funds of the countries of the East, and also grants MoES at individual level. Stable financing SRW neither from the state budget.

    The traditional university student's scientific conference spent in April, gives the chance to students to approve the first scientific experience. Our students - active participants and frequently winners of the interuniversity and international language Olympic Games spent by embassies of the countries of the East, on purpose to reveal owners of grants on foreign language training.

Research work of students is one of most effective remedies of improvement of quality of preparation and education of experts with the higher education, capable creatively to apply in practical activities of achievement of scientific and technical innovations. Attraction to research work of students allows to use also their creative potential for the decision of the actual problems standing in practice and before high school.

Communication with the scientific organisations of the ministries and departments - performance of joint programs, introduction of results scientific research activities iis carried out by constant information interchange under available scientific programs, the projects which are carried out by the scientific organisations, the ministries and departments.