Department of Commodity Science, Commodity Expertise and Restaurant Business

Specializations

PROFILE: CUSTOMS EXPERTISE (54191)

The main and crucial task of graduates in this profile is to control and inspect the quality of export and import goods as they pass through customs borders.

Graduates occupy positions such as expert, quality control inspector, and, in the future, managers in the following structures:

• The State Customs Service, its regional and border units;
• Enterprises, firms, and companies producing goods for export;
• Logistic centers where goods for export are stored;
• Foreign trade institutions;
• Joint Kyrgyzstani-foreign companies, firms, and enterprises;
• Border commodity terminals conducting customs control over export and import trade;
• Testing and research laboratories for export and import goods;
• Intergovernmental customs institutions of the Eurasian Economic Union in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia.

Your expert work at the customs border will elevate the country's export-import activities to a higher level!

PROFILE: RESTAURANT BUSINESS AND SERVICE (7225)

This profile prepares managers and organizers for the restaurant business and service sector. They occupy well-paid and managerial positions in restaurants, cafes, modern canteens, bars, fast food enterprises, as well as in airline catering services, restaurant services on trains, cruise ships, hotels, guest houses, tourist and entertainment centers, sanatoriums, and recreation houses.

Students in this field:

• Study the composition, properties, qualities, and origins of food raw materials, food products, and ready-made dishes;
• Develop recipes, composition, and cooking technologies for various dishes and drinks;
• Create special, delicacy restaurant products and menus based on them;
• Learn and spread methods of preparing dishes from the peoples of Kyrgyzstan and the world;
• Master the rules and procedures of restaurant service and dining culture;
• Develop business plans for banquet halls, celebration salons, catering centers, and kitchens for dish preparation.

Students also conduct interesting and engaging internships at restaurants in the health resorts and tourist centers of Issyk-Kul and Turkey.

The profession of a restaurateur is modern, promising, and always in demand!

PROFILE: COMMODITY SCIENCE AND PRODUCT EXPERTISE (54169)

A commodity expert is a high-level specialist with a bachelor's degree who ensures and controls the quality and safety of products, goods, and services at all stages of their movement: from fields and farms to stores and consumers' tables.

Commodity experts work in the following positions:

• Expert controlling the quality of products and goods in production, trade, and public catering enterprises;
• Quality manager at manufacturing enterprises, trade firms, and companies;
• Commercial director for product quality, goods, and trade services;
• Organizer, manager of exhibitions and fairs for consumer goods;
• Head or senior specialist of laboratories for the research or testing of raw materials, products, and goods;
• Specialist in product standardization and certification;
• Senior specialist in trade centers, markets, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and potentially their managers or owners;
• Senior specialist in product manufacturing at industrial enterprises, large farms, international trade and economic institutions, and logistic centers;
• Employee of Kyrgyzstan’s trade and economic representations in foreign countries.

Those who desire a high-quality life become commodity experts!

K.A. Alymbekov Head Department, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor	D.M. Tursunalieva Ph.D., Associate Professor	B.K. Dzhurupova Ph.D., professor	G.M. Dzhamankulova PhD, Associate Professor	Z.A. Ivakova PhD, Associate Professor
Sh.I. Boronchiev Ph.D., Associate Professor	A.M. Satybaldieva Ph.D., Associate Professor	O.A. Donchenko Senior Lecturer	A.K. Ishkeeva Senior Lecturer	L.P. Kozlova Senior Lecturer
B.K. Niyazalieva Senior Lecturer	F.A. Turdieva Senior Lecturer	G.D. Aitkeeva Senior Lecturer	B.B. Osmonova Senior Lecturer	B.S. Zhekshenova Methodist engineer