Study Abroad / Pakistan

Study and Work in Italy

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Italian education system is quite simple but not that much worth in english speaking countries until you attain masters degree or highly talented student in bachelors.

If you are considering about studying in Italy and after that making your living here, in these days its quite impossible. Jobs are few and unemployment is sky high.

The average pay if consider by reviewing most graduates both master and bachelor degree holders is around 1700 euros. So its not enough if you planning to move out after 3 or 4 years.

Professional degrees like engineering worth a lot in every corner of the world because mostly the experience matters but not always. If you studies in Italy and acquire a job then its better to have some experience of 2 to 3 years. So if you decide to go somewhere else your studies and job experience won't be worth less.

Considering few real life stories of some international students, prosperity chances are highly increased these days. Foreign investment in the Italian territory is increasing now, local companies are being bought out by foreign companies and there will be a quite big job pool in coming future. As Italian professionals are moving, for foreigners its a great opportunity to fill the gap.

As I wrote earlier, internationalization is going high year by year to fill the gaps and attract foreign companies and foreign students.

When I first came here in Italy in year 2010, I read an open letter in a newspaper. The letter was written by a father to his son. In which he wrote about the economic situation of Italy. He also asked him to leave the country after his professional education as this country will not even provide him a single job. But now I'm seeing a change after 5 years of breakage and misery of Italian economy, its rising again. Hopefully sooner there will be no one who would like to leave for a better prospects. As he will achieve it here.

Once the economy stands on its feet, means the employment rate go below 5% as in year 2007. There will be a lot more opportunities for both foreign nationals and Italian nationals.

In this time, its still quite uncertain how things go, but if you see the ground reality you will surely see a change.

Studying in Italy, without scholarship

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Studying in Italy is not that hard, as compare to other European countries, living expenses are less. You can decide your budget initially, how much you can spend yearly to study in Italy or in your own country. If you compare the both amounts, you will see a very little difference.

Study in Italy is quite an adventure, if you don't have a scholarships then either you are going to earn that money or you will dependent on your family. Being dependent on the family is the worst part because you are more than 18 and its the time for you earn on your own. The other most basic mistakes we do is that we never make a budget and just keep spending the money. We don't look for a job, as national language is Italian. We have just little thing in mind that to get a job you must speak Italian.

For sure Italian is compulsory but if you look hard you can also find a job where only english language skills are required. With a job, your stay and your study in Italy is more easy.

Everyone can realize that the study is only possible when you have money in your pocket and you don't have to worry about the expenses and you can concentrate on your studies. If you worry that you can't manage you stay in Italy or your expenses for study in Italy can't be beard then kindly don't to Italy, because you will be wasting your time and money if you had any.

Universities Abroad

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Searching for a better course is quite difficult because seeing the course description is not enough. It got a lot better when you consult the community of those students who are already studying there or graduated from that institute. It get simple when the institute is quite near you can attend the open days, meet the professors and students.

Online searches sometimes lead to dead end and you find nothing. So you have to make specific searches what course you want to pursue. Maybe the name of the course is not as you expected but the course outline matches what you want to pursue. So your search should be thorough. If you like any Institute study its website thoroughly.

I will like to share my own experience. I searched a lot to study abroad, I found many universities but sometimes a lost interest because of the less information or missing information. I never attended to contact the institute. So its better if you have any question you should contact the admission by email or by phone.

Check thoroughly all the aspects, the course offered, future prospects, tuition fee and the living expenses. If you search deep you will find all this information. Use google translate for contents not in English, many university not provide all the information in English but their own national language. So it better to see also the non english web pages of univeristy.

With time most of the universities created all the pages in english and many still working on it.

Study in Italy: Useful links

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Italy
With the above link you can see the universities, their location the number of students and much more, Wikipedia provides lot of information regarding stats.

http://www.study-in-italy.it/
You can see the database of available courses, you can even get the piratical information. It gives you a lot of information when to apply for admissions and pre-enrollment.

http://www.bachelorsportal.eu
You can find here also the courses offered by Italian universities.
You might not find all of them, so its better to go above and see the other link

http://www.italia.it/en/home.html
You can discover Italy by visiting this website and get an overview of Italian culture.

Further more, you can check the regional websites regarding tourism which can be helpful for you when you enter Italy and you can easily manage your accommodation temprarily.

DOV for Italian Study Visa

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DOV (Declaration of Value) is an assessment of degree, where the worth of degree is evaluated according to the country education system. It is also necessary for the enrollment in the university. Italian university won't enroll you without DOV unless you are an exchange student. To proceed with DOV, you have to make request to Italian embassy, like in Islamabad and you provide all the attested original documents and their copies with Italian translation. Furthermore the documents and their copies usually 3 should be attested from Foreign ministry and the Central Board. For more clarification you can contact the respected authorities.

Study Visa Italy

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Italian study visa is easy to get but only thing required is patience. You completed your intermediate studies then you are good to apply for undergrad admission in Italy. Application for international students are open from January to March each year. The cost of study in Italy is too low as comparing to other European countries. The university fees are low. Living expenses are not much. Even you don't have a scholarship it will cost you around 4500 per annum. If you get any scholarship, like regional or from university it will more than enough in most cases.

Following are the three most simple steps to apply;

1- Apply for admission in Italian Universities
It is better to apply for more than one university, you can search many courses in english language, then search also for scholarship opportunities.

2- Apply for pre enrollment in Italian Embassy
After securing the admission you can proceed with pre enrollment. For pre enrollment you have to provide DOV (declaration of value), and your all attested educational degrees and documents. All documents should be translated in Italian language from an authorized translator.

3- Apply for study visa
For students in Pakistan, the visa process is quite easy, you just have to submit your passport, visa fee and application form. You can ask the complete list from Gery Visa dropbox. Now each major city have local centers. Italian embassy don't handle visa service as before.

This is a just short overview to apply.

University in Pakistan

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To set the parameter for best university many aspects are considered. The teaching level, student response, internationalization research and many more. If you look deep into the study culture it all based on American education system (university level study). Syllabus set for the Matric SSC and Intermediate HSSC are quite good but they don't prepare the pupil for undergrad studies. So university has to pay more attention towards their students.

If you consider GIKI, NUST, LUMS, IBA, KEMC they are the prestigious institutes of Pakistan. You can't decide which one have the best method of teaching. But if you look around, you will see many great names who studied from these institutes. If you go back a generation or two you will find Government College Lahore, Punjab University, Forman Christian College. So with time the study appetite of young Pakistani generation is increasing.

Once a single method of teaching is implemented and just single selection procedure is selected, there will be a lot more talented and patriotic professionals who will prefer to stay in their own country and serve.

Study in Italy

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Today Italy ranks among the 8 most industrialized Countries in the world. Alongside some big companies, both state-owned and private, it has developed a sound network of small and medium-sized undertakings, promoted a few scientific parks, and is incentivating basic and applied research in a great variety of fields (biology, ICT, medicine, physics, etc.).

Italy has played an important role in European higher education: it is one of the four countries that first engaged to create the so-called "European Area of Higher Education" (Sorbonne Declaration, May 1998), thus starting that type of higher education reform which, known as "Bologna Process" (Bologna Declaration, June 1999) is being implemented all over Europe.

No other Country in the world has so many art and culture treasures like Italy. More than a half of historical and artistic estates of the world is in our Country (data UNESCO).

Italy is a Country reach in history and traditions, testified by museums, cathedrals, residences, castles, archaeological sites, etc. Each place keeps important traces of the past and the natural environment surprises the visitor with mountains covered with snow and kilometers of shores all around the peninsula.

For further information about Italy and studying in Italy see the website of MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) " Study in Italy".

" Study in Italy" is a valuable information tool for students wishing to attend higher education (H.Ed.) programmes in Italy, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Undergraduate Studies in Italy

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Italy is one of the best country which offers the same rights to international students like their own national students. A lot of universities offers scholarships in undergraduate studies. One of the best aspect regarding the regional government bodies is that they also offer scholarships to students on the basis of merit and need base (only for the first year of studies).

You may not find your chosen professional studies here in Italy in English, but in coming future there will not be any field or faculty left who don't offer courses in English.

Specifically engineering disciplines, Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino which are ranked No.1 and No. 2 respectively in national rankings are offering a lot of courses in English at undergraduate studies.

The selection of course is much important and after that is surviving in this Non- English country, national language is Italian, it will be much better when u come here focus on your Italian language skills. Then there are money issues, you might not find any odd jobs here so you should achieve a scholarship. If its not available then you have to set your budget to at least 4,500 euros per anum, disregarding your luxurious way of living. Because with this money you will only survive here, you will pay your rent, pay for food and bills.

Then there is a part of reasonable resident, you pay attention towards community. Improve your language skills, and be a part of society.

Best of luck ahead if you chose to study in Italy. Any questions you can leave in comments, its all basic for those students who want to study abroad and don't have a clue that Italy also offers great opportunities.

Independent colleges & Universities in Lahore

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Independent colleges & Universities in Lahore

Institute f South Asia (ISA) - Lahore
47-Tufail Road, Lahore
N/A

Allied College Of Textile Management & Administration
105, Garden Block, New Garden Town, Kalma Chowk, Lahore
www.actma.edu.pk

Aptech
A Tipu Block New Garden Town, Lahore
www.aptechit.edu.pk

Institute Of Computer And Emerging Sciences
7-Satluj Block , Moon Market Iqbal Town Lahore
www.pic4it.com

Corvit Systems - Lahore
14-D-1, Ghalib Road, Gulberg III, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
www.corvit.com

Peak Solution
42-A Lower Mall , Near Civil Secretriate, Lahore
www.peak4solutions.com

Edge Systems International
21-L Gulberg III Main Ferozepur Road, Lahore
www.edge4it.com

Quaid-e-Azam College of Information Technology (QCIT)
95-Main Ferozpur Road (Ichra)
www.qcit.edu.pk

STEP
4-C New Muslim Town (facing Canal), Lahore, Pakistan
http://www.step.edu.pk

Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT), Lahore
Shahrahe Quaid-e-Azam Allama Iqbal Campus (Old Campus) Lahore, Pakistan.
www.pucit.edu.pk

Premier College of Business and Administration
12-Tipu Block New Garden Town, Lahore
www.premier.edu.pk

Westminister College
93-A D/1, Main Boulevard, Lahore
www.westminster-lahore.edu.pk

Quaid-e-Azam College
3-Shahrah-Aiwan-e-Tijarat Shadman Chowk,
N/A

Altus College of Commerce Science & Technology - Lahore
56 Lawerence Road Lahore
www.altus.edu.pk

Standard College of Commerce
32-B, New Muslim Town, Wahdat Road, Lahore
N/A

Global Institute
3 - Aurangzeb Block, New Garden Town, Lahore - Pakistan.
www.global.edu.pk

Leadership Colleges Network
25-Ali Block, New Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan
www.lc.edu.pk/

KIPS College - Lahore
30-A Johar Town, Lahore

College of Accountancy and Finance (CFE)
10-B, Aibak Block, New Garden Town, Lahore, Pakistan
http://www.cfe.edu.pk/

College of Accountancy and Professional Studies (CAPS)
15-Aurangzeb Block, New Garden Town, Lahore.
www.capscollege.edu.pk

Punjab Institute of Medical Studies
233 - Rewaz Garden, Lahore
N/A

National Textile and Management Sciences College
18-E Model Town, Lahore
N/A

Sofia College of Arts & Science
31,Bahawalpur Road Mozang Chunge, Lahore
N/A

Defence Degree College of Women
487-FF-Phase 4, Defence Housing Authority, Lahore
N/A

ST. Anthony College
3-Lawrence Road, Lahore
N/A

Govt. College of Technology
99-Railway Road, Lahore
N/A

The Educators College
95-B-II,M.M Alam Road Near Hussain Chock Gulberg, Lahore
www.educators.edu.pk

Cosmin Education Services
44-F Gulberg Centre,Gulberg III, Lahore
N/A

Lahore Grammer College (Only For Girls)
173-Shadman II Canal Bank, Lahore
N/A

Unique College
106-A Muslim Town Main Wahdat Road. Lahore
N/A

Sharif Trust Institute Of Information Tecnology
Raiwind Road, Lahore
N/A

Wise College for Girls
48-Main Gulberg, Lahore
N/A

Oriental College Of Arts
11 Fazlia Colony,Shahjamal Ferozepur Road, Lahore
www.oriental.edu.pk

College of Tourism & Multimedia Computing
4-J Near Firdus Market Ali Zeb Road Gulberg III Lahore

Pakistan Institute of Management, Lahore
Management House, 70-B/2, Gulberg III, Lahore 54600
www.pim.com.pk

Pakistan College of Law
46 Tipu Block, New Garden Town, Lahore
http://www.pcl.edu.pk/

Lahore School of Information Technology
5/68 Usman Block New Garden Town,
N/A

National Textile College & Management Institute
53-D, New Muslim Town, Opp. Punjab Unversity Gate No. 2, Nr. Sheikh Zaid Hospital, Lahore
N/A

Scholars College of Computer Science
Shahrah-e-Awan-e-Tijarat, Shadman Chowk, Lahore
N/A

Petroman Institute of Management Sciences
57-Shadman Market, Lahore
N/A

National Institute of Languages http://www.ilmkidunya.com/colleges/college_list.aspx?city_id=8&pageNo1=4
2nd Floor, Farid Plaza, Muslim Town Mor Lahore
N/A

Skills Institute of Information Technology
29-Queens Road, Lahore
N/A

Hailey College of Commerce
Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Punjab University, Lahore.
http://www.hcc.edu.pk

Hailey College of Banking and Finance
Opposite University Ground, 1-Cust Road, Lahore, Pakistan.
http://www.puhcbf.edu.pk/

University Law College, Lahore
Quaid-e-Azam Campus Lahore.54590 Pakistan.
www.pulc.edu.pk

Lahore School of Economics
104-C-II, Gulberg III, Lahore
http://www.lahoreschoolofeconomics.edu.pk/

Government College For Women
38-47/C-II, Ghalib Road, Gulberg-III, Lahore
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Govt. Dyal Singh College
Nisbat Road, Lahore
N/A

Govt. Islamia College - Kachahri Road, Lahore
Kachahri Road, Lahore
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Queen Mary College University, Lahore
Durand Road, Lahore Pakistan

Universities in Pakistan

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Universities in Pakistan are playing a very important role in the over all development of the country. Their importance lies not only in providing degrees and thus producing quality human resources for various sectors of the economy, but also in making the youth agents of bringing about socio-economic changes in the country. However University education in Pakistan needs to be revamped for making it accessible and more relevant to the changing circumstances.

There are at present 49 General Universities in the Public sector, 36 Universities in the private sector, 8 degree awarding institutes in the private sector and 18 degree awarding institutes in the private sector. The University education in Pakistan is not accessible to a large section of the population, which is evident from the fact that during the year 2003-4, the percentage of population, between the age group 18 to 23, enrolled in a University of Pakistan was a meager 2.38% (Economic Survey of Pakistan 2004-05 data).

In order to improve the quality of University education in Pakistan, making it accessible and relevant, the Higher Education Commission is undertaking various reforms. The Commission is also committed to making the indigenous universities of Pakistan world-class institutes.