AlmaU took first place in IQAA ranking in “Management”!
Independent Kazakhstan Quality Assurance Agency for Education (IQAA) for the eighth time summed up the results of the National Ranking of the best universities of Kazakhstan in 2015, in which took part 57 universities of the country. Almaty Management University (previously IAB) took 1st place in IQAA ranking in “Marketing” (undergraduate programme) and two 3rd places in “Finance” and “Management” (undergraduate programmes)!
Ranking serve many purposes: the need to satisfy consumers of education services in accessible and understandable information about the university, stimulate competition between universities, provide to students and their parents a rational motivation for investment, help to make a choice between universities, programs, disciplines. Therefore, university ranking is necessary in the implementation of national assessment and provision of high quality of education.
Since 2008, IQAA annually publish General Ranking of Kazakhstan universities, formed on the basis of analysis of academic statistics, expert assessments and employer’s surveys.
In general, the method of calculation of general institutional ranking based on three components: 1st profile – an assessment of the quality of academic resources of the university, based on statistical indicators assigned 60% weight percent. These data provide universities. 2nd profile – expert assessment of university quality by academic community, it is 20%, 3rd profile- a sociological survey of large employers and government agencies, SME representatives – 20%. In essence, second and third profile represent the reputation of universities.
