The history of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science originated in 1947, when the Department of Psychology and Logic was organized, and then in 1949 the philosophical and economic faculties opened. The organizer of the Faculty of Philosophy was a graduate of the Institute of the Red Professorship Associate Professor N.P. Dardykin.

In 1951 the philosophical and economic faculties were merged into the philosophical and economic faculty, which was headed by Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor F.A. Zherebyatyev.

The Faculty of Philosophy and Economics was functioning until 1954 and was closed due to the fact that the prerogative of preparing philosophical personnel was given only to leading universities: Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev State Universities.

The graduates of the Faculty of Philosophy (1954 and 1955) became a generation of professional philosophers of the Kazakh school; it was their efforts in promoting the actual problems of philosophical knowledge.

Among the first graduates of the faculty are Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Philosophy Zh.M. Abdildin, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, A.Kh. Kasimdzhanov, Academicians of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, doctors of economic sciences Ya.A. Aubakirov, K.A. Sagadiev, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor M.S. Azhenov, professor S.T. Temirbekov, as well as G.A. Yugay, Z.A. Mukashev, M.S. Burabaev, Yu.G. Petrash, G.B. Khan, A.I. Ikenov, V.G. Yakovlev, A.A. Aimbetov, V.G. Bryanov, A.D. Azhibaeva, I.S. Khoroshilova and others.

The Faculty of Philosophy and Economics was reopened only in 1968. In 1971-1972, the faculty had the departments of philosophy of humanitarian faculties, philosophy of natural faculties, history of philosophy and logic, ethics, aesthetics and scientific atheism. In subsequent years, new departments were organized: psychology, political science, sociology.

In 1991, the faculty was divided into the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Economics and Sociology. In 1997, the Department of Sociology became part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science.

Over the years, the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science was headed by professors, doctors of philosophical sciences Segizbaev O.A., Kasimzhanov A.Kh., Azhenov M.S., Kasabekov A.K., Doctor of Psychology, Professor Loginova N.A. The deans of the faculty were Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Burkhanov K.N. (Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan) and Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan G. Yesim (Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan). 2007 to 2010 the faculty was headed by Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor Shaukenova Z.K. 2010 to 2011 Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Kulsarieva A.T. 2011 to 2021 the faculty was headed by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Masalimova A.R. Currently, the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science is Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor Meirbayev B.B.

For more than half a century, the faculty has experienced periods of prosperity, restructuring, and difficulties, but the team invariably coped with the latter, grew, matured and reached new stages of its development: strengthened, capable of fulfilling new, even more complex and important requirements of reality. 

The staff of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science has a fairly high creative potential, responsibility, dedication to their profession and their university.