The Department of History is considered one of the first departments that began its work together with the establishment of the University. At various times, the department was called the Department of “History of Kazakhstan”, “General History”, “Archeology and Ethnology”, and “History of the Turkic States”. The department takes a leading place in the region in the training of historians. The scientific potential of the department is 85%.
The professorial-teaching staff of the department actively participates in scientific and theoretical conferences, and also contributes annually to international, republican scientific and practical conferences. The department has signed memoranda of cooperation with educational, research bases for internships and internships of students, with such foreign universities as Akdeniz (Antalya), Hadzhettepe (Ankara), Haji Bayram Veli (Ankara), Mugla Sytki Kochman (Mugla) and the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.
The department trains specialists in 2 educational programs bachelor's degree, 1 master’s and 1 doctoral studies.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, the total number of full-time professorial-teaching staff (who have entered into employment contracts) employed in the block of individual disciplines of the curricula of educational programs is 25, including 2 doctors of sciences, 13 candidates of sciences, 6 Ph.D. doctors, 4 masters. The Department of History trains specialists in the areas of the educational program 6B01615-History, 6B02231-History, 7M02210-History, and 8D01604-History.