KIMEP University
university in Kazakhstan
KIMEP University, formerly Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Forecasting, is a private university founded in 1992 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
History
KIMEP was founded in 1992 under the instructions of then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev and major investor Madi Temirkhan. Its campus in south-central Almaty occupies the premises of the former Higher Party School of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. It was among the first private institutions of higher education founded in the former Soviet Union. Nazarbayev appointed Chan-Young Bang, his former economic advisor, as the institute's first executive director.
The first MBA and MA in Economics programs were launched in 1992 and the MPA program began enrolling students in 1993. The first class, consisting of 81 MBA and MA students, graduated from KIMEP in 1994.
In 1998 the International Executive Center was created with the help of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 1999 KIMEP introduced its first four-year bachelor programs in Business Administration and Social Sciences. 424 students enrolled in the undergraduate program.
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