The Faculty of Philology is one of the oldest and largest faculties of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, which annually trains over 500 students who receive fundamental knowledge in the field of philology.

The Faculty graduates qualified bachelors, masters and PhD doctors in the fields of Turkic Studies, Pedagogical Education, Philology, Linguistics, Literature, Translation and Translation Studies. The two-degree education of undergraduates and doctoral students in the areas of Pedagogical Education (RUDN), Philology (RUDN) and Linguistics (MGIMO, NUUz) is being implemented.

The departments’ professors, doctors and candidates of sciences are actively engaged in scientific activities, have completed internships in leading universities of the country and abroad. The Faculty runs numerous projects and clubs, such as Russian World Center, Translation Center, Center of Russian Language and Culture, Laboratory "Kazakh language: social and psycholinguistic experimental training", Laboratory of Sociolinguistics, practice and Theory of Translation, Scientific and Methodological Center "Linguoarna", Center for the Study of Kazakh Folklore and Literature named after Zhambyl and many others.

The Faculty fruitfully cooperates with leading universities and scientific institutes abroad. The partner universities are the following: University of Granada (Spain, Granada), Gazi University (Turkey, Ankara), University of Debrecen (Hungary, Debrecen), Ankara University (Turkey, Ankara), University of Wisconsin (USA, Madison), Waco University (Japan, Tokyo), Minzu University of China, Brown University (USA, Island), Ca' Foscari University (Italy, Venice), University of Warsaw (Poland, Warsaw), Tilburg University (Netherlands, Tilburg), Kaunas University named after Vytautas the Great (Lithuania, Kaunas), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria, Vienna), J. Liebig University (Germany, Giessen), Istanbul University (Turkey, Istanbul), Szeged University (Hungary, Szeged), University of South Central Nations (China, Wuhan).

MAJORS OF THE FACULTY

Bachelor's degree

6B02209 – Turkic Studies

6B02303 – Foreign Philology (Western languages)

6B02304 – Translation business (Western languages)

6B02305 – Kazakh Philology

6B02307 – Russian Philology

6B02312 – Russian as a foreign language

6B02306 – Literary studies

6B02313 – Applied Kazakh Linguistics

Master's degree

7M01701 – Kazakh language and literature

7M01702 – Russian language and literature

7M01703 – Russian language and Literature (double degree) (RUDN)

7M01704 – Foreign language: two foreign languages

7M01704 – Foreign language: two foreign languages

7M01705 – Foreign language: two foreign languages (double degree)

7M02303 – Translation Studies (Western languages)

7M02316 – Simultaneous translation (Western languages)

7M02307 – Linguistics

7M02320 – Linguistics

7M02309 – Literary Studies

7M02321 – Literary Studies

7M02312 – Foreign Philology (Western languages)

7M02313 – Kazakh Philology

7M02323 – Applied Kazakh Linguistics

7M02319 – Kazakh Philology

7M02324 – Turkic Philology

7M02314 – Russian Philology

7M02315 – Russian Philology (RUDN)

7M02216 – Turkic Studies

PhD doctorate

8D01701 – Kazakh language and literature

8D01704 – Russian language and literature

8D01705 – Foreign language: two foreign languages

8D02302 – Translation business (Western languages)

8D02303 – Linguistics

8D02309 – Linguistics (Gylym ordasy)

8D02304 – Literary Studies

8D01703 – Russian Literature (RUDN)

8D02310 – Innovative Literary Studies (Gylym ordasy)

8D02306 – Foreign Philology (Western languages)

8D02307 – Kazakh Philology

8D02308 – Russian Philology

8D02311 – Philology (Gylym ordasy)

8D02208 – Turkic Studies