KSUAC after B. Beishenalieva maintains creative contacts with a number of higher educational institutions of foreign countries, including the Korean National University of Arts, Lancashire University (Britain), the Tajik Institute of Arts, the Kazakh National Conservatory named after M. Ashrafi, Uzbek State Institute of Art Studies after Khamza, Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharsky), Moscow State University of Culture, St. Petersburg State University of Culture named after A.V. N. K. Krupskoy, Russian Academy of Music after Gnesins, Kazakh State Women’s Pedagogical University, Ufa State University of Economics and Service, Turan University, Almaty, Ufa State Academy of Arts after Z. Ismagilova, Chuvash State Institute of Culture and Art, University of Arts (Tehran, Iran), Research Center «Manas» of the Association of Literary Artists of the People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang, Altai State University, Yekaterinburg State Theater Institute, Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts, University of Culture Istanbul (Republic of Turkey), Kemerovo State Institute of Culture, Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture, Kazan State Institute of Culture, East-Siberian State Institute of Culture after D. Hvorostovsky, Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D.S. Likhachev, Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after D.S. Abay”, Taraz Regional University after M. Kh. Dulaty (Kazakh Republic).
In 2017, KSUAC after B. Beishenalieva became a member of the Commonwealth of Asian Educational Institutions in the Sphere of Culture.
These contacts take a variety of forms. In an effort to deepen bilateral cooperation in the field of education, the parties cooperate in the following areas:
- There is an exchange of information and documentation between universities on the system of higher professional education in the field of culture and art, on reforms and new educational technologies, educational and methodological materials; Organization and joint holding of seminars, conferences and other events.
- Cooperation is carried out in the form of an equivalent exchange of students for a full and part-time course of study; Teaching staff for lecturing in accordance with the agreement between the parties.
- As part of the exchange of scientific and pedagogical workers for joint research of mutual interest.
Teachers of KSUAC systematically improve their professional level by participating in the work and preparation of seminars, conferences, round tables, jury, various kinds of regional reviews — competitions, as well as chairmen of the State Attestation Commissions in the universities of culture and art of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, as well as neighboring countries.