KemSU possesses modern research and educational laboratories and has over 20 research schools. The university's research projects have received grant support from Russian and international foundations.
The University is especially interested in organizing the internships and facilitates job placement at the leading companies and enterprises in Russia and abroad.
KemSU has the experience of training students from all over the world: within degree programs, exchange programs, courses of Russian as foreign languages and at the preparatory faculty for international applicants. Annually, it trains over 900 degree students from 14 countries (Armenia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Viet Nam) and exchange students from Belgium, Italy, France and Germany.
The University in its classical tradition offers the programs of the pre-university education of the foreign students in Russian language in the Preparatory Department (in Russian as Foreign Language) since 1991. The program is focused on developing the foreign students' skills on different aspects of Russian language and training foreign students from different countries: Guinea, India, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Laos, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Vietnam and China.