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Guide to Higher Education in Europe

(Version 2.0)
About this Guide

Generally speaking, this guide is meant for those people who want to pursue Higher Education (Masters and/or PhD) in Europe.
Individuals who want to pursue education at other levels (e.g., Bachelors or Diploma) or even in some other country can also benefit from various sections of this guide.

The contents of this guide are generalized and people from any country or any background (Engineering Sciences, IT & computer-related, MBA & Business related, Medical, Law, Arts, Social sciences & Humanities etc) can benefit from it.

• A lot of effort has been put into preparing this guide; I hope you benefit from it.
• Well, Yes this is a fat guide : (nearly 60 pages), that’s because it has got almost all the information and tips that one would require for studies and admission. If you read and follow it carefully and carry out the procedure sensibly, then you would definitely get admission wherever you want to.

• This guide can be freely distributed as long as all the original contents are intact, and nothing has been modified or added.
• Pass this guide to all your friends and anyone else you know who can benefit from it.

I wish all of you success and happiness in your lives and request you to pray for the same for me.
This is version 2.0 of this guide, for updates, new versions and other guides, visit:

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Contents:
My Introduction
3 Contributing Financially 3 How to Contact Me 3 The Guide a. When to go for Masters? 4 b. System of Education in Europe 4 c. Major European Countries 5 d. The Admission Cycle 6 e. Admission Process 6 f. Required Documents 7 g. Educational Requirements 9 1. Degrees Required 9 2. TOEFL/IELTS/GRE/GMAT 9 (Details & Preparation) h. Useful points to be kept in mind for these Tests 22 i. Finding & Selecting Universities 23 j. List of Top-rated European Universities 25 k. How to prepare your C.V/resume 26 l. How to prepare your Statement of Purpose (SoP) 29 m. How to prepare Letters of Recommendation 34 n. Things to check for when posting applications 38 o. Waiting for the admission results 39 p. What if you don’t get admission???? 39 q. Expenses, Accommodation, Scholarships & Jobs 40 r. Living, Life-Styles & Language Problems 45 s. Study in UK (Details, Scholarships & Jobs) 48 t. Visa & Financial Requirements 51 u. Visa Interview: Tips & Possible Questions 52 v. Traveling to Europe 54 w. Things to take with you 55 x. Things to do before leaving 56 y. Links & Addresses 57 Version History 59 Disclaimer 59 Acknowledgements 59
My Introduction:

My name is Tauseef Afzal. I did my B.E. (Electrical) from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan in 2002. I secured aggregate 4th position in the university and got 84% marks. After that, I started working as Design Engineer at AERO (Advanced Engineering Research Organization), where I worked for 2 years. In 2004, I got admission in Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany in MSCE.
During the time I was preparing for admission to Masters, I did a lot of research about the European education system, their universities and living in Europe, so I decided to prepare this guide so that others can benefit from this.
If you benefit from this guide, what you should do is:-

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Pray for me, Help others and Serve your homeland in any way you can. Remember that as a nation, we are very much behind the rest of the world in Technology and Education, we should help each other, inshallah one day we would be able to achieve the heights that others are enjoying right now.
Just remember the following lines by a Pakistani professor, “I know that my place is dirty and may have many problems in it. People there try to interfere in my business; but I don’t know! I will go back there, as its mine! It made me strong and beautiful as I am now. So its weaknesses do not matter. I will support it to live long.”
You do have a responsibility that is to serve your homeland, as whatever you are right now or whatever you might become in the future, it would only be because of your homeland. So you must return the favor in any way you can.

Contributing Financially:

If you have benefited from this guide, kindly contribute for a good cause. Contribute what ever amount you can.

Make your cheques payable to:
Tauseef Afzal. Account No: 17545-0
Habib Bank Ltd, SDv Branch, Saddar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Send your cheques, money orders or cash to the following address:
Tauseef Afzal. c/o
House No. 129, Street No. 20, F-10/2, Islamabad, Pakistan.
If you want to contribute through some other means (e.g., credit card, cash etc), kindly

email me at: tauseef_afzal@hotmail.com

How to Contact Me:

You can contact me through my email address tauseef_afzal@hotmail.com If you want to contribute to this guide or would like to add some useful information or links, kindly email me, and mention it in the subject of the email.
I have discussed almost all the things in detail in this guide, so there should be no questions concerning things mentioned in this guide.