The Republic of Karakalpakstan Supreme Council was renamed as the Karakalpak State University in Berdaq by Resolution No. 274 on January 25, 1992. In 1990, based on the faculties of the Karakalpak State University, which had been a higher education institution in the republic, separate institutions were established under the names of the Nukus State Pedagogical Institute named after Ajiniyaz, the Nukus Branch of the Tashkent State Institute of Information Technologies, the Nukus Branch of the Tashkent Agrarian University, and the Nukus Branch of the Tashkent Pediatric Institute.