In the international Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2021, al-Farabi Kazakh National University rose to the 165th position right after the British University of Exeter and ahead of the American Rochester University and Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University. This fact can be regarded as a significant success for the al-Farabi Kazakh National University as one of the leading university in Kazakhstan, but in another authoritative rating – the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 – the university is incomparably lower – In the 1000+ group, together with the Gumilyov Eurasian National University and Satbaev University.