Ektu

D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University (Kazakh: ; Russian: - ) is located in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. Founded in 1958 as Ust-Kamenogorskij stroitelno-dorozhnyj institut, UKSDI (literally: Ust-Kamenogorsk Road Construction Institute), the university is named after the first rector Serikbayev Daulet Mirkasymovich, a famous public figure and social activist who ensured the status of a leading science and technology university. According to the Republican Ranking Agency, the university is in the second place among technical universities of Kazakhstan. As of May 2019, the university consists of three schools, six faculties, military sub-department, and Higher IT College. As of 2018, the total number of students enrolled is over six thousand. The D. Serikbayev EKTU offers eighty one educational programs on bachelor, master&s;s, and doctorate levels, in addition to twenty experimental innovative programs. In the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation University, there are dual-degree programs in IT, economics, management, instrument engineering and geodesy. The D. Serikbayev EKTU has sixty three industrial partnerships in such companies as Kazzinc, Ulba Metallurgical Plant, Azia Avto, Vnitsvetmet, and 1C-Rating. In addition to the Center of Advanced Development VERITAS, which develops new types of products for major enterprises of the East Kazakhstan region,