Karaganda State Technical University, having a highly qualified scientific and pedagogical staff, powerful intellectual and material resources, aims to be a leader in the training of well-rounded professionals in engineering and technology-based innovation development of education and science in close connection with the production. KSTU is one of the most prestigious, dynamic and innovation-oriended University in Kazakhstan which trained more than 70,000 technical specialists. It was founded in 1953 as the Mining Institute. The University is especially proud of the fact that the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev got the basics of engineering education here.