SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS BGA’s global network reached 250 members with the addition of Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business in May. Tim Banerjee Dhoul presents some key information about a fledgling institution that has ambitions akin to the rapidly growing city it calls home
HISTORY Nazarbayev University (NU) was established in 2010 by Nursultan
Nazarbayev, who served as Kazakhstan’s first president between 1991 (following the nation’s declaration of independence) and 2019. The university comprises seven schools, of which three specialise in postgraduate education, including NU GSB. In May, the school became the 250th institution to join BGA’s global network. COURSES NU GSB currently offers four degree programmes, delivered fully in English: a flagship full-time MBA, an executive MBA (EMBA), an MSc in finance and a PhD in business administration. While the full-time MBA is a 16-month, on‑campus programme, the school’s EMBA is delivered on weekends over 21 months. Both offer a two-week experience at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in the US. The MSc in finance offers a three-week London excursion and a two-week internship with the National Bank of Kazakhstan.
LOCATION Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business (NU GSB) is based in Astana – Kazakhstan’s capital since 1997. Originally known as Akmola, the new capital became ‘Astana’ (meaning ‘capital city’ in Kazakh) in 1998. It was then renamed ‘Nur-Sultan’ in honour of the country’s long‑ruling president in 2019, before reverting to Astana last year. Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country by land area and is said to dominate the Central Asia region economically, generating 60 per cent of its GDP.
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