Abstract
The article reveals the history of formation, operational experience and methodology of candidate selection for the scholarships of international educational program “Bolashak” and its impact on the image of the Republic of Kazakhstan. International scholarship “Bolashak” was established in 1993 by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and granted 9532 scholarships from 1994 to 2013. Through the program “Bolashak” young people including ones from the regions as well as socially vulnerable population groups have the ability to get education of high quality abroad.