Abstract

Kazakhstan has a crucial role in international educational migration hosting thousands of students from the neighboring nations, which makes it the biggest educational hub in Central Asia. In particular, a high proportion of inflow of students actively immigrate into the western regions of Kazakhstan. The student flow into Kazakhstan is ranked by Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, north-west of Russia, key original countries, and interconnected components of the Middle Corridor. Apart from major cities like Almaty, Astana and Shymkent, there are the other regional cities, the one referring to Aktau city of Magystau region, hosting international students owing to its geopolitical landscape.

Due to shifting politics, analyzing the contribution of Kazakhstan in the educational migration is a key question of this paper. The relevance of the study is determined by the rapid growth of inflow of youth for educational purposes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the motives of educational migration into Kazakhstan and identify the main trends of educational migration on the oblast level. In order to get more precise results, we have organized a questionnaire tending to cover more than 50 international students currently studying at Yessenov University located in Aktau city, Mangystau region.