Academic calendar
for 2016 – 2017 Academic Year
| The interview with the adviser | Weekly on Fridays |
| The enrollment of students in higher education | 10 – 25 August |
| Constitution Day | August 30 |
| Registration of students and masters 1 course on discipline | August 25 – 26 |
| FALL SEMESTER | |
| The beginning of the fall semester | September 1 |
| Day of Knowledge | September 1 |
| The first boundary line control | 18 – October 22 |
| Republic Day | October 25 |
| The second boundary line control | December 6 – December 10 |
| Kurban Ait | November 17 |
| The end of the fall semester | December 15 |
| Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan | 16 – 17 December |
| Autumn exams full-time students and undergraduates | December 19 – January 7 |
| New Year | January 1-2 |
| Autumn session students correspondence courses 3.1 | December 26 – January 21 |
| courses (including exams and the final year of SJC) | |
| Total weeks of the fall semester: | theoretical training – 15 weeks |
| Autumn Session | – 3 weeks |
| winter vacation | – 2 weeks |
| SPRING SEMESTER | |
| Nativity | January 7 |
| The beginning of the spring semester | January 23 |
| The first boundary line control | March 10 – March 15 |
| International Women’s Day | March 8 |
| Nauryz | March 22 |
| The second boundary line control | April 28 – May 3 |
| Registration for the next school year, discipline | March 15 – April 10 |
| Day of Unity of the Peoples of Kazakhstan | May 1 |
| The end of the spring semester | May 5 |
| Victory Day | May 9 |
| Spring exams full-time students and undergraduates | 7-27 May |
| Spring exams 2nd year students part-time to full-term courses | May 21 – June 12 |
| Spring exams 4th year students with part-time and full-term 1, 2 courses with a reduced period of training | May 21 – June 12 |
| Spring exams students 1, 3 year part-time with full and 1,2,3 courses with accelerated training period | May 21 – June 12 |
| SAC final year full-time students and defended his master thesis | May 10 – June 30 |
| SAC final year student correspondence courses | 1-30 June |
| Professional practice | June 1 – July 30 |
| Practice for students undergoing military training | July 1 – August 30 |
| Record for the summer semester | May 25 – June 20 |
| Total weeks of the spring semester: | theoretical training – 15 weeks |