By the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 943 on June 22, 2017 doctoral programmes in specialties "Philology" and "Transport, transport equipment and technology" were opened at S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University.

In addition, the university was granted a license for training academic personnel for a Master's programme in the specialty "Jurisprudence".

Thus, for today the recruitment will be carried out in six specialties of doctoral programme and forty-eight of Master's programme.

Opening of doctoral programme in Philology and Transport equipment and technology - this is primarily the result of many years of work of PSU scientific schools. Representatives of faculty members of these specialties are members of Dissertational Councils, expert groups, researchers on grants of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and state targeted programs, research advisors of Master's Degree students who always successfully defend their theses.

Master's programme in the specialty "Jurisprudence" will train the academic personnel for the institutions of the Department of Internal Affairs in the field of criminal, criminal procedure and criminal and penal law, criminology, criminalistics and operational investigations.