On July 1, the National Defense University named after the First President of Kazakhstan - Elbasy will celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The military school carries out education, training and qualification improvement of officers of the Armed Forces, other ministries and agencies, state and executive authorities, heads and officials of enterprises and institutions of the country's defense-industrial complex, as well as servicemen of foreign armies.
Training of specialists at the National Defense University is carried out in 10 faculties and 27 departments under educational programs after higher education. The university is equipped with highly qualified personnel with extensive experience in command and staff and educational work. It has 73 candidates of sciences, doctors and PhD.
The university actively participates in the activities of international scientific and educational associations and organizations of near and far countries. The higher educational institution is recognized among the leading educational institutions of the world and was admitted to the Oxford Academic Union, the Association of Eurasian and Asian Universities.
Military personnel from Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are being educated at NDU under the master's program. For the first time since 2019, a training course has been organized for military personnel of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. It is planned to train servicemen of the Republic of Korea and Iran under the master's program.
For a quarter of a century, the university has trained more than 2,300 military specialists of the operational-tactical and operational-strategic branches of the Armed Forces, other troops and military facilities of Kazakhstan. More than 2,500 people passed the training course.
At the National University, fundamental and applied scientific work is given considerable importance. The staff and teaching staff of the military educational institution have carried out more than 240 research works, published more than 130 monographs, more than 270 educational materials and textbooks. During the implementation of scientific projects, the Defense University received 5 patents and 22 certificates with intellectual property rights.
In addition, a unique unit of the educational institution - a military-scientific platoon - was created. Military servicemen with a scientific bent and knowledge of the digital world work here. In addition to mastering the main subjects of combat training, they also participate in scientific research in the areas of IT technologies and cyber security in the engineering and technical field.
In the field of education, the National Defense University is a modern intellectual center aimed at training the national military elite, a new generation of officers who can adequately respond to modern military challenges and threats in the world.
The higher educational institution, consistently increasing its pedagogical and scientific and technical potential, serves to strengthen the personnel composition, combat readiness and combat ability of the Armed Forces of the sovereign Kazakhstan.