Abstract
The article is devoted to management of Kazakhstani University in order to find the opportunities for further deepening of digitalization by introducing general, change and project management practice. Study showed inconsistency of bureaucratic style and disparity of existed concepts with practice. Types of changes, main management problems, quality management system and digitalization processes at the university were analyzed. The basic gap in existed organizational structure of university as a barrier in meeting requirements of new reality of society and new system of relationship inside of university was identified. Issue of the current educational automation associated with digitalization, the shortcomings exposed by the pandemic were figured out. Based on investigation of domestic, foreign and original research, proposals to implement the project management methodology and creation of a change management department in IITU were made. These proposals become the conditions for integration of invaluable methodological experience accumulated by teachers and for implementation of university's mission in digital age. The novelty of the research lies in the development of proposals for the transformation of the Kazakh University in the direction of meeting the requirements of the technological revolution based on the use of project management methodology and principles of change management. As a result, the proposed structure of university based on project management methodology and the creation of a change management department were justified.