7M04103 Economy (PFUR)

Name of EP

7M04103 Economy (PFUR)

The field of education

7M04 Business, Management and Law

Direction of training

7M041 Business and Management

Group of educational programs

М070 Economy

goal

The purpose of the educational program "Economics (International Trade)" is to train professional teaching staff in the field of economics who have the abilities of a whole examination and methodological literacy, which are necessary for solving abstract and practical economic problems as well as in theoretical and analytical fields of work. The program is focused on the development of a highly qualified person of an expert who can:

- to understand and explain the methods of analytical activity;

- to take part in the preparation and organization of events of the company's commercial, investment, production policy in the field of foreign trade and global business;

- to create, implement and amend the methods of analytical activity, the ability to properly understand various socio-financial, socio-political and exorbitant situations;

- to investigate and summarize the statistical sample according to the main macroeconomic indicators in order to create a linear model and trend;

- to make a forecast of the situation of the country and/or region, to evaluate the investigated model of increase according to the hypotheses (H1 and H0) of reliability and unreliability of statistical data in order to achieve adequacy in the model.

The program was invented on the basis of the competence model of expert training, which guarantees the necessity of the labor market and the conditions of employers. This model assumes a representation of the core competencies of graduates, the degree of their preparedness and readiness to perform certain special functions.

Language of education

Russian, Kazakh

credit hours

120

Academic degree awarded

Master's Degree

Learning outcomes

  1. to argue strategies for providing economic security to companies, institutions; to assess the nature of cyclicity as well as the general form of economic dynamics and the system of "maturation" of economic decline; to compare statistical and economic documentation in order to implement studies of strategic and timely projects of organizations to establish competitive advantages;
  2. create suitable trends of the company's investment work, diversify it, in order to model economic results; evaluate key trends in the formation of the international and state economy and investigate the results of the administrative conclusions adopted, take part in the organization and conduct of the company's commercial, investment, production policy in the field of foreign trade and international business;
  3. to study statistical and economic documentation to explain the changes in the economy in a complete or a single area, using an economic and mathematical model; to evaluate the investment work of the company using static and dynamic methods of evaluating investments to adopt effective strategies and increase competitiveness;
    calculate economic indicators that determine the work of subjects on the basis of standard methods and a functioning regulatory framework;

5. To investigate, classify and apply various lists of data sources in order to perform financial and economic calculations, without the help of others to use methods of paper processing, accumulation of data in synthetic and analytical accounting registers, to create statistical, tax and financial statements; to apply methods of evaluation and modeling of economic indicators that determine the position and formation of the economic concepts under consideration;

6. To summarize and skeptically evaluate the results acquired by Russian and foreign scientists, to detect and study important academic difficulties, to argue the abstract and factual importance of the chosen problem of academic study; to compare and compare the created monitoring modifications according to the financial increase of the state or the sale of the company's product in order to establish ways to improve;

7. to argue on the basis of consideration the strategy of action of economic entities in different sectors of the internal and external markets at long-term, medium-term and short-term stages; to apply unified abstract models to the tasks of a certain plan; to use models for the purpose of scenario modeling of the formation of the economies of the metropolis and the district and the execution of empirical estimates based on the present data;

8. to distinguish the multifunctional and possible properties of economic resources and conditions, required actions of economic activity; to investigate the dynamics of economic characteristics and adapt them to the current state of the economy and the effectiveness of the introduction of the latest technical and technological processes; to illustrate the skills of activity with informative resources, educational and reference literature according to national and economic security;

9. classify the rapid economic information required to make the right administrative conclusions both on the household, as well as on companies to counter threats and dangers; reveal the similarities and differences of investments in small companies and in company shares; select tempting investments during financing; evaluate the work of attracting investments to form a company;

10. use technologies for preparing initial information to perform econometric analysis, apply modern industrial resources and informative technological processes to solve analytical and research problems; select instrument resources for processing economic information in accordance with the established problem, study the results of calculations and argue the acquired conclusions;

11. to apply various measures in actual work according to the stimulation of attracting investments and to establish an indicator of investment attractiveness; to use various combinations to explain the course of contracting, to compare various institutional structures; to explain political and economic difficulties when considering certain situations and macroeconomic trends, to present methods of their resolution and evaluate the results; to investigate and argue the economic policy of the country.

12. apply the knowledge of the economic security of the company, explore the conditions of economic existence; argue your own point of view on improving the economic capital of an economic entity in oral and written configurations in Kazakh, Russian and foreign languages in order to solve the problems of professional work; manage a team in the field of commerce, capturing social, confessional differences and the historical heritage of the country..

For applicants

https://welcome.kaznu.kz/ru/education_programs/magistracy/speciality/1805

 

   Academic activity

The academic activity of the EP is carried out:

- within the framework of existing regulatory documents and methodological recommendations in the field of higher education in the field of economic sciences,

- as a result of the implementation of regulatory documents regulating the educational and methodological process at the university;

- generalization and dissemination of new normative legal acts concerning methodological work;

- current and prospective planning of the educational and methodological work of the university; coordination of the educational and methodological complex of the discipline (UMKD) of the department for compliance with regulatory legal acts, the working curriculum and the educational program;

-  monitoring the provision of the educational process with teaching materials, documenting the results;

- development of teaching materials; development and implementation of the working curriculum.

Master's degree programs are developed based on the study of the experience of highly rated foreign universities and research centers that implement accredited master's degree programs. 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 OP by online questionnaires.

 

Scientific activity

The training program is based on a set of disciplines and research work of a master's student. Undergraduates are given the opportunity to attend additional courses within the framework of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which allow expanding the scientific and methodological training of undergraduates. The Center for Economic Research holds special scientific and methodological seminars for undergraduates with individual speeches and presentations of undergraduates 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.

Scientific directions of the Department of Economics:

- Conducting a comprehensive analysis of factors characterizing regional competitiveness features;

- research of the features of the creative industry;

- development of a system of effective organizational and economic management methods;

- development of an economic and mathematical model for financing high-tech industries;

- forecasting of socio-economic indicators of the Republic of Kazakhstan, etc.

Over the past 5 years, the Department has implemented 6 projects funded by the SC of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

- a branch of the department was established on the basis of the Institute of Economics of the SC MES RK;

 

International activities

According to the curriculum, students in the master's program must complete a 10-day scientific internship on the topic of research at various foreign universities. The curriculum provides 3 credits for this.

Agreements on scientific cooperation and double-degree education have been concluded between Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in the specialty "Economics»:

- PFUR, Moscow, Russia;

- Novosibirsk University, Russia;

- Ural Federal University, Russia;

- South Ural State University, Russia;

- La Sapienza University, Italy;

- University of Management and Ecology in Warsaw, Poland;

- University of Padua, Italy.

 

Teachers of the educational program undergo internships, educational courses abroad to exchange experience, gain new competencies, and improve educational skills.

 

Quality assurance (Accreditation, rating, work with employers)

International accreditation, national accreditation

The Master's degree program "7M04102 - Economics" is accredited by the Kazakhstan Society of Engineering Education (KAZSEE) until 2026.

Educational programs occupy the first places according to the assessment of the Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA), also have good positions in the NAAR rating.

Employers are:

  • ·         «Ғылым Ордасы» by the Institute of Economics of the KN MES RK;
  • ·         «SANGE» Research Center;
  • ·         Autonomous Cluster Fund «Park of Innovative Technologies»

 

Training of personnel in the field of Economics is carried out for the following areas of professional activity:

Educational (teachers of economic disciplines at the university, in the system of special and additional professional education).

Scientific (analysis, forecast for the development of enterprises, organizations, systems, territorial-production units of the economy generally; risk management; assessment and development of a qualified, unbiased expert opinion on various aspects of economic activities, etc.). 

The government (the macroeconomic Outlook for the pace of economic growth, GDP, inflation, unemployment, exchange rate forecast, etc.).

Financial (National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, commercial banks, insurance companies, etc. - assessment of financial stability using economic and mathematical methods, etc.).

Industry.Agriculture (AIC).

     The main structural units of their employment are economic, financial, production, economic and analytical services of enterprises (firms) and research organizations that they can successfully lead, as well as scientific and pedagogical activities.