The Department of Land Resources and Cadastre, established at the Faculty of Water, Land and Forest Resources in October 2009 by merging two departments "Land Management" and "Cadastre" and is the youngest in the structure of the University.

Currently, the duties of the head of the department are performed by a senior lecturer, Dr. PhD Gaukhar Serikbaeva.

The creation of the department is due to the increasing demand for specialists in the field of land resources management, real estate cadastre, land management, rational and efficient land use.

The main directions of the department's activity are conducting scientific research and teaching disciplines in the field of land cadastre, maintenance of the unified real estate cadastre, land valuation, regulation of land relations on the basis of digitalization, valuation of real estate, as well as forecasting, planning and management of land resources.

The department conducts training in the following educational programs:

Bachelor's degree:

6B07307 - "Land Management"

6B07308 - "Cadastre".

Master's degree:

7M07308 - "Land Management"

7M07309 - "Cadastre".

7М07310 - "Land Management"

Doctoral studies:

8D07308 - "Land management".

8D07309 - "Cadastre".

Educational programs are implemented according to state educational standards, providing a combination of the advantages of a research university and modern educational technologies.

Training is conducted in classrooms and computer classes equipped with modern equipment with specialized software, and on training grounds of practice bases.

Along with the training of students within the framework of higher education, the department also implements professional retraining and advanced training programs in the areas of cadastre and land management, GIS-technologies.

The combination of fundamental training of students in the field of natural-science, economic, informational and managerial-legal disciplines and acquired skills of practical activity is a guarantee of successful career in state organizations, private companies, research activities.

The teaching staff of the department consists of 20 units, cand.agri.sci., professor - 1, doctor of tech.science, professor - 1, doctor of economics, professor-1, candidate of tech.science, associate professor-1, candidate of tech.science, professor - 1, PhD, associate professor-2, PhD senior lecturers-2, PhD assistant -1, senior lecturers - 6, assistant - 4, senior laboratory assistant - 1, laboratory assistant -1.

The department carries out international cooperation with the following organizations:

• State University of Land Management (Moscow, Russia);

• Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania);

• Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Warsaw, Poland);

• Konya University (Konya, Turkey);

• Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, PRC);

• Latvian University of Life Sciences and Technology (Riga, Latvia);

• Leibniz Institute of Agrarian Development in Transition Economies (Halle, Germany).

The department closely cooperates with the following organizations:

• Research Institute "AlmatyGenPlan" LLP;

• Department of Land Relations in Almaty and regions;

• "State Corporation" "Government for Citizens" in Almaty and regions;

• RSE on PHV "State Institute of Agricultural Aerial Photographic and Geodesic Surveys" (GISKHAGI);

• State Institution "Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations of Almaty".