Toraighyrov University

Toraighyrov University is a public university in Pavlodar, a city on the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, and one of the largest higher-education institutions in the country.托莱吉罗夫大学是哈萨克斯坦东北部额尔齐斯河畔巴甫洛达尔市的一所公立大学，也是该国规模最大的高等教育机构之一。

It was founded in 1960 as the Pavlodar Industrial Institute, was reorganised in 1996 as Pavlodar State University named after Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov, and took its present name in July 2020.该校1960年以巴甫洛达尔工业学院之名创立，1996年改组为以苏丹马赫穆特·托莱吉罗夫命名的巴甫洛达尔国立大学，2020年7月改为现名。

It enrols about 10,000 students across eight faculties and appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, while entering the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking as a Reporter institution, and it is particularly associated with engineering, energy and agricultural education in the Irtysh region.该校八个学部共有约1万名学生，在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列1401+并列区间，并以Reporter身份进入2027年泰晤士高等教育排名，在额尔齐斯地区尤其以工程、能源与农业教育著称。

History

• On 20 September 1960 the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union issued the decree that created the Pavlodar Industrial Institute, part of a nationwide expansion of engineering education in the Kazakh SSR, one of several industrial institutes created during the post-war industrialisation drive.1960年9月20日，苏联部长会议颁布法令，决定成立巴甫洛达尔工业学院，这是战后工业化进程中在哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国创建的若干工业学院之一。
• The institute opened on 1 December 1960, only ten weeks after the decree, with its first classes held in temporary premises while permanent buildings were still being organised.学院在法令颁布仅十周后的1960年12月1日开学，首批课程在临时校舍进行，永久建筑尚在筹建之中。
• It was initially housed in two buildings and ten single-storey barracks of the former 24th military school, a physical inheritance that shaped the campus for its first decades.学院最初设在原第24军事学校的2栋建筑与10座单层营房中，这一物质条件影响了其最初几十年的校园形态。
• Teaching began with three faculties, machine building, civil engineering and electric power, and an intake of 400 students that reflected the industrial needs of the Pavlodar region.建校之初设机械制造、建筑工程与电力三个系，首批招收400名学生，呼应巴甫洛达尔地区的工业需求。
• Only 16 teachers delivered the first courses, and just one of them held the rank of docent, a measure of how thin the academic staff was in 1960.首批课程仅由16名教师承担，其中只有1人拥有副教授职称，足见1960年师资之薄弱。
• Those three founding faculties mapped directly onto the region's economy, which combined machine-building plants, construction trusts and the power stations of the Irtysh industrial corridor.这三个创始系科直接对应地区经济结构，涵盖机械制造厂、建筑托拉斯与额尔齐斯工业走廊的发电站。
• In May 1996 the institute was transformed into Pavlodar State University named after Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov, the Kazakh poet and writer born in the region in 1893.1996年5月，学院升格为以苏丹马赫穆特·托莱吉罗夫命名的巴甫洛达尔国立大学，这位哈萨克诗人兼作家1893年出生于该地区。
• Elevation to university status in 1996 was accompanied by a widening of the curriculum beyond engineering into economics, law, the humanities and teacher education, fields that now occupy four of the eight faculties.1996年升格为大学的同时，课程也从工程扩展至经济、法律、人文与师范教育，这些领域如今占据八个学部中的四个。
• Two years later, in 1998, the university introduced master's and postgraduate programmes and added a school-lyceum and a college to create a continuous education pathway. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had already made the institute a Kazakhstani institution, and Kazakhstan's accession to the Bologna Process in 2010 consolidated the bachelor's and master's structure introduced in 1998.两年后的1998年，学校开设硕士与研究生课程，并增设附属中学与学院，形成贯通式教育路径；1991年苏联解体已使学院成为哈萨克斯坦的院校，2010年哈萨克斯坦加入博洛尼亚进程，则巩固了1998年引入的学士与硕士两级结构。
• In 2003 nine busts of outstanding scholars and enlighteners from Pavlodar Region were installed on pedestals in the square in front of the main building, forming the Alley of Busts.2003年，主楼前广场竖立起9尊巴甫洛达尔州杰出学者与启蒙者半身像，形成「半身像林荫道」。
• The university's programmes received international accreditation from Germany's ACQUIN agency in 2011 and from the Russian AKKORK agency in 2012, signalling a turn toward external quality review.2011年，该校课程获得德国ACQUIN认证机构国际认证，2012年又通过俄罗斯AKKORK机构的认证，显示其转向外部质量评估。
• In 2014 the Expert RA agency included the university among the best higher-education institutions of the Commonwealth of Independent States and assigned it rating class D.2014年，Expert RA机构将该校列入独立国家联合体最佳高校名单，并给予D级评级。
• A 500-place student dormitory on Ak. Shokin Street opened in October 2015, easing a housing shortage that had accompanied the growth of the student body, and remains one of the newest buildings on campus.2015年10月，位于绍金院士街的可容纳500名学生的宿舍启用，缓解了学生规模扩大带来的住宿紧张。
• Between 1960 and 2020 the institute grew from two borrowed buildings into a campus of seven academic buildings, laboratories and a scientific library holding about 900,000 volumes.1960至2020年间，学校从两栋借用建筑发展为拥有7栋教学楼、实验室与藏书约90万册的学术图书馆的校园。
• In July 2020 the institution was renamed Toraighyrov University, dropping the Soviet-era "state university" formula and adopting the shorter name used in international rankings and on its English-language website.2020年7月，学校更名为托莱吉罗夫大学，弃用苏联时期的「国立大学」表述，并在英文网站与国际排名中采用这一简称。
• The renaming coincided with its reorganisation as a non-profit joint-stock company, the legal form adopted by many Kazakh universities in the same period, under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.此次更名与学校改组为非营利股份公司同步进行，这也是同期许多哈萨克斯坦大学采用的法律形式，学校隶属科学与高等教育部。
• In the QS World University Rankings the university rose from the 1001+ band in 2021 to 1201+ in 2022 and then to the 1201-1400 band in the 2023 to 2025 editions.在QS世界大学排名中，该校从2021年的1001+区间升至2022年的1201+，并在2023至2025年各版中进入1201-1400区间。
• That progression continued into the 2026 and 2027 editions, when the university was placed in the 1401+ band alongside other Kazakh institutions in the global table.这一进程延续至2026与2027年版，学校进入1401+区间，与其他哈萨克斯坦高校一同出现在全球榜单中。
• In 2025 the university marked its 65th anniversary, counting from the 1960 opening of the Pavlodar Industrial Institute, with ceremonies attended by regional and national officials.2025年，学校迎来建校65周年，以1960年巴甫洛达尔工业学院开学为起点，举行了有州与国家官员出席的纪念活动。
• Since the early 2020s the university has promoted AI-SANA, an artificial-intelligence programme that includes an AI reception, AI document management and a NeuroNews service.自2020年代初起，学校力推AI-SANA人工智能计划，包含AI接待、AI公文管理与NeuroNews服务。
• Since 1960 its historical trajectory has run from a Soviet industrial institute, through a regional state university, to a multipurpose university competing in global rankings.自1960年以来，其历史轨迹由苏联工业学院，经地区国立大学，走向参与全球排名的多科性大学。

Academics

• Toraighyrov University currently operates eight faculties, in natural sciences, energetics, architecture and construction, engineering, humanities and social sciences, economics and law, agricultural sciences and computer science.托莱吉罗夫大学现设八个学部，分别为自然科学、能源、建筑与施工、工程、人文与社会科学、经济与法律、农业科学与计算机科学。
• The Faculty of Engineering teaches metallurgy, machine building, transport and materials technology, the fields closest to the institute's 1960 origins, and works with the region's metal plants and machine works.工程学部教授冶金、机械制造、运输与材料技术，这些领域最接近学院1960年的源头，并与地区金属厂和机械厂合作。
• The Faculty of Natural Sciences covers physics, mathematics, information technology, chemistry and natural sciences, while the Faculty of Computer Science handles software engineering, information systems and data technologies.自然科学学部涵盖物理、数学、信息技术、化学与自然科学，计算机科学学部则负责软件工程、信息系统与数据技术。
• A foundation faculty prepares school leavers for undergraduate study, including preparatory language and subject teaching for applicants who studied in other languages, and a Higher College within the university offers applied programmes below degree level.学校设有预科学部为中学毕业生升入本科做准备，并为以其他语言完成中学教育的申请者提供语言与学科预科课程，校内的最高学院则提供低于学位层次的应用型课程。
• The university offers 66 bachelor's programmes, 46 master's programmes and four doctoral programmes, taught in Kazakh and Russian.学校开设66个本科专业、46个硕士专业与4个博士专业，以哈萨克语和俄语授课。
• It enrols about 10,000 students in more than 63 specialities, making it the largest university in Pavlodar Region by student numbers.该校约1万名学生分布在63个以上专业，按学生人数计为巴甫洛达尔州最大的大学。
• Teaching is delivered by about 530 faculty members, including 20 professors, 40 doctors of science, 177 candidates of science and 104 docents, according to recent published figures.据学校公布的简介，教学由约530名教师承担，其中包括20名教授、40名理学博士、177名副博士与104名副教授。
• Academic work is organised through 41 departments and 13 research and practical centres, a structure that combines faculty-based teaching with applied research units, with each department attached to one of the eight faculties.学术工作通过41个教研室与13个科研实践中心组织，形成院系教学与应用研究相结合的结构，每个教研室均隶属于八个学部之一。
• The Irtysh Science and Technology Park on campus supports technology commercialisation, alongside a regional innovation and technology transfer centre.校内的「额尔齐斯」科技园支持技术商业化，并与地区创新与技术转移中心协同运作。
• A student design bureau gives engineering students project experience, and the university maintains laboratories for energy, construction materials, metallurgy and agricultural technology.学生设计局为工科学生提供项目实践，学校还拥有能源、建筑材料、冶金与农业技术实验室。
• The Beisembayev Library holds about 900,000 volumes in six reading rooms and serves as the main research library for the Pavlodar region, is named after a Kazakh scholar and has an online catalogue.贝谢姆巴耶夫图书馆藏书约90万册，设6个阅览室，是巴甫洛达尔地区的主要研究型图书馆，馆名取自一位哈萨克学者，并建有在线目录。
• The university publishes the ToU Bulletin, runs the OpenU online learning platform and operates a Continuing Education Institute and a Higher College for adult and sub-degree students.学校出版《ToU Bulletin》，运营OpenU在线学习平台，并设有继续教育研究所与高等学院，面向成人及非学位学生。
• Agricultural teaching is supported by cooperation with DEULA-Nienburg, a German agricultural training centre, and by the university's experimental farm and field stations.农业教学得到德国农业培训中心DEULA-Nienburg的合作支持，并依托学校试验农场与野外试验站。
• International cooperation includes Erasmus+ projects and a partnership with the Baltic Institute of Psychology and Management in Latvia.国际合作包括Erasmus+项目，以及与拉脱维亚波罗的海心理学与管理学院的合作。
• The university is a member of the Bologna Charter, the LAESTE student exchange association, the Siberian Open University Association and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation university alliance.学校是博洛尼亚宪章、LAESTE学生交流协会、西伯利亚开放大学协会与上海合作组织大学联盟的成员。
• A military department provides reserve officer training, a legacy of the Soviet higher-education model that few Kazakh universities have retained.学校设有军事教研室提供预备役军官培训，这是苏联高等教育模式的遗产，在哈萨克斯坦高校中已不多见。
• AI-SANA, the university's artificial-intelligence platform, combines teaching, applied projects and administrative tools such as AI-Reception and AI-Document Management.AI-SANA是该校的人工智能平台，整合教学、应用项目与AI接待、AI公文管理等行政工具。
• Research priorities include energy saving, construction, machine building, ecology, regional economics, pedagogy and sociolinguistics, reflecting the university's regional mandate.研究重点包括节能、建筑、机械制造、生态、区域经济、教育学与社会语言学，体现其服务地区的使命。
• The university's academic year follows the Kazakh credit system, and graduates receive state-recognised bachelor's, master's and PhD diplomas.学年遵循哈萨克斯坦学分制，毕业生获国家承认的学士、硕士与博士学位。

Campus

• The main campus, known as Campus A, is at 64 Lomov Street in Pavlodar, postal code 140008, close to the city centre and the Irtysh River embankment, and served by city buses from the main railway station.主校区称为A校区，位于巴甫洛达尔市洛莫夫街64号，邮编140008，靠近市中心与额尔齐斯河堤岸，主火车站有市内公交直达。
• Its coordinates, 52.27 degrees north and 76.97 degrees east, place it in the steppe zone of northeastern Kazakhstan, where winters are long and continental.校区坐标为北纬52.27度、东经76.97度，位于哈萨克斯坦东北部草原地带，冬季漫长且具大陆性气候。
• The campus comprises seven academic buildings, laboratories, the Beisembayev Library and a museum complex that documents the university's history, grouped around a central square.校园由7栋教学楼、实验室、贝谢姆巴耶夫图书馆以及记录校史的博物馆群组成，各建筑围绕中央广场布局。
• Its oldest structures are the former military-school buildings and barracks that housed the institute in 1960, later adapted into classrooms and offices.校园最古老的建筑是1960年接收的原军事学校校舍与营房，后来被改造成教室与办公室。
• The Alley of Busts, installed in 2003 in front of the main building, commemorates nine scholars, writers and enlighteners from Pavlodar Region.2003年建于主楼前的「半身像林荫道」，纪念9位来自巴甫洛达尔州的学者、作家与启蒙者。
• A 500-bed dormitory opened in October 2015 on Ak. Shokin Street, supplementing older halls of residence for students from other regions of Kazakhstan.2015年10月在绍金院士街启用的500床位宿舍，补充了供哈萨克斯坦其他地区学生居住的旧宿舍。
• Student facilities include a philharmonic hall, a medical centre, sports halls and an esports space, all within walking distance of the academic buildings.学生设施包括爱乐厅、医疗中心、体育馆与电子竞技空间，均位于教学楼步行范围内。
• The campus sits in the city rather than on an isolated suburban site, so students use Pavlodar's public transport, markets and cultural institutions daily.校园位于城市之中而非孤立郊区，学生日常使用巴甫洛达尔的公共交通、市场与文化机构。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, Toraighyrov University is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of the global table, a band shared by 102 institutions worldwide.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，托莱吉罗夫大学位列1401+并列区间，即全球榜单末端的开放区间，该区间由102所高校共享。
• The university's own website displayed a place in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2026 before the 2027 edition was published.在2027年版发布之前，该校官网曾展示其在2026年QS世界大学排名中处于1401+区间。
• It entered the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 as a Reporter institution, meaning it submitted data and was listed without receiving a numerical rank.该校以Reporter身份进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，即提交数据并上榜但未获具体名次。
• Toraighyrov did not appear in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities list and was not included in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.托莱吉罗夫大学未进入2026-2027年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学榜单，也未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• Its QS trajectory moved from 1001+ in 2021 to 1201+ in 2022, 1201-1400 in 2023-2025 and 1401+ in 2026-2027 as the ranking expanded.其QS位次从2021年的1001+移至2022年的1201+、2023至2025年的1201-1400，并随榜单扩容在2026至2027年进入1401+。
• With eight faculties and 41 departments, it is the broadest university in Pavlodar Region, covering engineering, teacher training, law, economics, agriculture and computer science.凭借八个学部与41个教研室，该校是巴甫洛达尔州学科最齐全的大学，覆盖工程、师范、法律、经济、农业与计算机科学。
• The university holds a QS Stars rating, a supplementary assessment of teaching, employability, internationalisation, facilities and innovation rather than a position in the world table.学校持有QS星级评级，这是对教学、就业力、国际化、设施与创新的补充评估，而非世界榜单中的位次。
• In 2014 the Expert RA agency rated it class D among universities of the Commonwealth of Independent States, denoting an acceptable level of graduate preparation.2014年，Expert RA机构将其评为独立国家联合体高校D级，表示毕业生培养达到可接受水平。
• Programme accreditation by ACQUIN in 2011 and AKKORK in 2012 gave its degrees external recognition in Germany and Russia respectively.2011年ACQUIN与2012年AKKORK的课程认证，使其学位分别在德国与俄罗斯获得外部认可。
• As the leading university of Pavlodar Region, it supplies engineers, teachers, lawyers, economists and agricultural specialists to the region's industry and public sector.作为巴甫洛达尔州的领头高校，该校为地区工业与公共部门输送工程师、教师、律师、经济学家与农业专家。

Student life

• The university's motto is "Knowledge is power", a short formula that appears in its promotional materials and frames its emphasis on practical, regional development, and its Kazakh wording is "Білім — қуат көзі".该校校训为「知识就是力量」，这一简短表述出现在其宣传材料中，并统领其服务地区发展的务实取向，哈萨克语原文为「Білім — қуат көзі」。
• In 2025 the campus celebrated the university's 65th anniversary with concerts, exhibitions and reunions that brought alumni back from across Kazakhstan during the September academic year opening.2025年，校园通过音乐会、展览与校友返校活动庆祝建校65周年，校友在九月学年开启之际从哈萨克斯坦各地返回。
• The student philharmonic is one of the university's distinctive cultural institutions, organising concerts and performances by student musicians.学生爱乐乐团是该校独具特色的文化机构，组织学生音乐家的音乐会与演出。
• Esports has an organised space on campus, and university teams compete in Kazakh student leagues alongside traditional sports such as wrestling, football and volleyball.电子竞技在校园拥有专门空间，校队在哈萨克学生联赛中与传统项目如摔跤、足球、排球一同参赛。
• The medical centre and sports halls support daily student life, while the dormitories house several hundred students, including those from outside Pavlodar Region.医疗中心与体育馆支撑日常学生生活，宿舍则容纳数百名学生，其中包括来自巴甫洛达尔州以外的学生。
• The museum complex and the Alley of Busts function as informal teaching spaces where students encounter the region's literary and academic figures.博物馆群与半身像林荫道充当非正式教学空间，学生在此接触本地区的文学与学术人物。
• Student activism has deep roots here: the dissident Arman Kani, an alumnus, founded the underground youth group Zhas Ulan in 1969-1970.学生运动在此根基深厚：校友、异见者阿尔曼·卡尼于1969至1970年创立地下青年组织「青年一代」。
• AI-SANA projects give students hands-on work in artificial intelligence, from reception chatbots to document-management tools used by the university administration.AI-SANA项目让学生在人工智能领域获得实操经验，从接待聊天机器人到校方使用的公文管理工具。
• The student design bureau and the Irtysh Science and Technology Park let engineering students join applied projects with regional firms before graduation, an unusual arrangement for a regional university.学生设计局与「额尔齐斯」科技园让工科学生在毕业前参与地区企业的应用项目，这在地区大学中并不常见。

Notable people

• Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov (1893-1920), the Kazakh poet and writer whose name the university bears, is commemorated as a national literary figure rather than as its founder.苏丹马赫穆特·托莱吉罗夫（1893-1920）是该校冠名所本的哈萨克诗人与作家，被纪念为民族文学人物，而非创校人。
• Daniyal Akhmetov, a graduate, served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2003 to 2007, then as Minister of Defence from 2007 to 2009 and akim of East Kazakhstan Region from 2014 to 2023, and holds a doctorate in economics.校友达尼亚尔·艾哈迈托夫于2003至2007年任哈萨克斯坦总理，2007至2009年任国防部长，2014至2023年任东哈萨克斯坦州州长，并拥有经济学博士学位。
• Timur Suleimenov, another alumnus born in Pavlodar in 1978, was Minister of National Economy from 2016 to 2019 and became chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan in 2023.另一位校友帖木儿·苏莱曼诺夫于2016至2019年任国民经济部长，2023年出任哈萨克斯坦国家银行行长，1978年生于巴甫洛达尔。
• Asain Baikhanov, an alumnus, has been akim of Pavlodar Region since 2022, placing a graduate at the head of the region that hosts the university.校友阿萨因·拜哈诺夫自2022年起任巴甫洛达尔州州长，使该校毕业生主政大学所在的州。
• Arman Kani (1954-2022), poet, journalist and dissident, founded the underground youth organisation Zhas Ulan as a student, was named an Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan in 2013 and died in Pavlodar in 2022.阿尔曼·卡尼（1954-2022）是诗人、记者与异见者，学生时代创立地下青年组织「青年一代」，2013年获授哈萨克斯坦功勋人士称号，2022年在巴甫洛达尔去世。
• Roman Valiev, a triple jumper, represented Kazakhstan at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and held the national record in his event.三级跳远运动员罗曼·瓦利耶夫代表哈萨克斯坦参加2004、2008、2012与2016年四届奥运会，并保持该项目的全国纪录。
• Sergey Podolsky, who graduated from the Pavlodar Industrial Institute in 1985 as a mechanical engineer, became head of Guryevsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.谢尔盖·波多尔斯基1985年从巴甫洛达尔工业学院机械工程专业毕业，后任俄罗斯加里宁格勒州古里耶夫斯基区区长。
• Khasar Khabybekov, an alumnus, became akim of Pavlodar city in September 2023, and Yerzhan Imanzaipov held the same post in 2022-2023.校友哈萨尔·哈贝尔别科夫于2023年9月出任巴甫洛达尔市市长，叶尔詹·伊曼扎伊波夫则于2022至2023年担任该职。
• Yerlan Aymukashev served as akim of Ust-Kamenogorsk from 2016 to 2017, and Nurlan Nabiev was akim of Aksu from 1999 to 2003 and of Ekibastuz from 2007 to 2010.叶尔兰·艾穆卡舍夫于2016至2017年任乌斯季卡缅诺戈尔斯克市长，努尔兰·纳比耶夫于1999至2003年任阿克苏市长、2007至2010年任埃基巴斯图兹市长。
• Meiram Begentayev, a lawyer and mechanical engineer by training, sat in the Mazhilis, the lower house of Kazakhstan's parliament, from 2012 and holds a doctorate in economics.梅拉姆·别根塔耶夫受过法学与机械工程训练，自2012年起任哈萨克斯坦议会下院马吉利斯议员，并拥有经济学博士学位。
• Vitaly Vikhlyanov, a midfielder, played professional football in Kazakhstan and later became a coach, part of the university's small but visible group of sports alumni.维塔利·维赫利亚诺夫司职中场，曾在哈萨克斯坦踢职业足球，后转为教练，是该校人数不多但颇为显眼的体育校友之一。