The International University of Kyrgyzstan is a university in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The university was established by decree of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, on March 11, 1993, and by the enactment of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, № 113, on March 16, 1993. The founders of the International University of Kyrgyzstan are the Government of Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, and San Francisco State University (USA). The International University of Kyrgyzstan is a state university with the status of International Higher Education and has a direct relationship to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. By the decree of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on December 30, 1998, and the enactment of the Kyrgyz Republic Government, the International University was given the status of autonomous self-management.

In 2017, the university was transformed into the Academic consortium “International University of Kyrgyzstan” – a corporate group, which includes a number of educational, scientific, and industrial institutions of various levels. Currently, the university has created an organizational structure based on the European American structure of universities, assuming the autonomy of structural units and aimed at active activities in the field of education and science. The current model of the “International University of Kyrgyzstan” is a holding structure that meets modern challenges as much as possible, in which educational, scientific, and industrial institutions strengthen each other’s potential and work together to continuously improve quality. As an international university, the IUK academic consortium is active internationally, introducing innovative methods of education and scientific research, developing trends in the globalization of education, expanding cooperation with universities and organizations from different countries.