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Key Features
The Eurasian Studies program at Nazarbayev University is the first interdisciplinary, English-medium doctoral program in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Central Asia. It is designed according to the highest international standards and taught by highly-qualified faculty, but at the same time is adapted to the educational, social and intellectual environment of Kazakhstan and the wider region.
Students have the space, time and flexibility they need to write a doctoral thesis that makes an original contribution to the field. Funding opportunities for research abroad and co-supervision by NU and non-NU experts enables our students to develop a truly international profile.
We train students to become versatile and internationally competitive scholars on the Eurasian region. Graduates from this doctoral program share a range of qualities and abilities, as well as field-specific skills that make them both “interdisciplinary” and “flexible.” Truly interdisciplinary research demonstrates a solid grounding in one discipline and sufficiently deep training in one or more others, which enables the scholar to build real bridges between various disciplines. Graduates of this program combine strong disciplinary and interdisciplinary training with a first-hand knowledge of the region, a command of the primary and secondary sources consistent with world-class scholarship on this region of the world, knowledge of requisite research languages and excellent academic English
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Courses include:
- Eurasia
- Critical Issues in Eurasian Studies
- Proseminar in Eurasian Humanities OR Proseminar in Eurasian Social Sciences
- Dissertation Research
- Discipline 1 Elective
- Advanced Academic Writing
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Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
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English requirements
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General requirements
- an undergraduate degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) and master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, to be determined by the Admissions Committee (Admission Committee is in charge to decide what discipline is relevant or not);
- a competitive CGPA in applicant’s Master’s (or equivalent) degree. If applicant has more than one Master’s or another terminal degree, then they should submit the most relevant document;
- the required level of English proficiency;
- strong reading, analytical, and mathematical skills (as appropriate to the focus of the applicant’s research) as demonstrated by GRE test (recommended);
- high motivation and strong interest in the Program as outlined in a personal statement;
- strong reading, analytical and mathematical skills as demonstrated by GRE test (optional).
- written research proposal;
- a curriculum vitae
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