Student Life
KIMEP currently enrolls about 3,500 students. The average age of enrolled bachelor’s degrees students was 19.5. Roughly 50% of KIMEP students come from outside Almaty. There are international students from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Spain, South Korea, India, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The KIMEP Students Association is a student-elected body to represent the interests of students to the administration of KIMEP. The KSA participates with full voting rights on all management committees, typically holding around 30 percent of seats on each committee. The KSA is also responsible for organizing and providing funding for all student clubs at KIMEP. Adlet Zhanatkanov was President of KSA in 2009-2010 and Mansur Khamitov is President of KSA in 2010-2011.
There are more than 30 student clubs at KIMEP, including the KIMEP Times, eClub (Entrepreneurship Club), Future Business Group, KIMEP Film Society, Intellectual Debate Club, Math Club, Luca Accounting Club, Zhas Kenes Charity Group, CrEAteam and KVN.
The Leadership Development Program at KIMEP invites guest lectures from the business, politics and academia in Kazakhstan and around the world to speak to students about personal development, leadership and other issues. The certificate-granting program gives students the chance to hear speakers such as Keith Gaebel, the Managing Partner of Central Asia and Caucasus at Ernst & Young, Ilya Urazakov, Kazakhstan broadcaster and businessman, Karel Holub, General Manager of NOKIA Corporation for the South CIS.
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