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M.Utemisov West Kazakhstan University is one of the oldest universities in the country, the first higher education institution in Western Kazakhstan. It was founded in 1932 . The university is today an institute of economy and management, culture and art institute, faculties: natural-mathematical, pedagogical, philological, history and law, college, the analytical centre, the centre of information technology, scientific library, the publishing centre and mass-media, test laboratory of ecology and biogeochemistry, educational-linguistic laboratory and other subdivisions of scientific, educational and production directions. There are 23 chairs preparing personnel on 50 specialities of a bachelor degree, 24 magistracies, four specialities of doctoral studies PhD are opened. Today in WKSU over 5,5 thousand students, and post-graduate students are trained . Educational activity of WKSU is carried out according to the state licence № 0026241 series АB. In WKSU there are some research centres : Regional resource centre NAO after Y.Altynsarin; the centre of development of languages; the Center of regional problems of economy; the cultural heritage Center; the Center of problems of ecology and wildlife management. In WKSU the base computer and office equipments are formed. There are 760 computers of new generation in the computer park. In educational process interactive boards, graph projector and video projector are used. 600 computers are connected to a corporate network with Internet connection. Official Web-site of WKSU: www.wksu.kz. The university Intranet-site (http://inside.wksu.kz) is developed, allowing conducting operative office-work, corporate e-mail (mail.wksu.kz), and providing communication between internal and external subscribers. The library fund makes more than 1 million units of storage. The scientific library of university has ten reading rooms. The West Kazakhstan state university after M.Utemisov on the balance has 8 educational buildings, 1 hostel for students, 2 typical gyms, 3 adapted gyms, 2 open athletic fields, an agrobiological research station. The given employments of graduates which reach 70 % as a whole on university testify to quality of education and steady position of WKSU at a labour market. Also questioning of employers for the purpose of identification of readiness of graduates is widely used. So, very high, high and sufficient levels of readiness of graduates of WKSU are considered by overwhelming majority of the interrogated employers.