10 ESSENTIAL STEPS TO GRAB A STUDY PLACE IN EUROPE

You need to do lots of home work before applying  any country to get study place. We advice you should do your initial research about universities and visa before at least a year in advance for untroubled settle in Europe.  The below steps will guide you to grab study places.
  1. Choose your study destination
  2. Find your favorite study program in each Universities
  3. Check the admission requirement and deadline for application
  4. Check the scholarships availability for your selected program
  5. Prepare your Excel sheet( Master organizer)
  6. Prepare your admission documents and apply before deadline
  7. Apply scholarship
  8. Choose your University
  9.  Accommodation
  10. Visa and Permits

Choose your study destination

There are 28 countries in EU region. However, Erasmus + program provide study exchange  facility all EU counties and 5 non-EU countries. In your initial research you need to find country according to your goals. You may consider, living condition, facility(Health care, Internet), salary scale, living cost, and multicultural society.
     


Find your favorite study program in each Universities
In this step, you need to use search engine to find out your dream study program. This step will be time consuming. Therefore, I mention several websites you can use to locate your study program.However information about below sites are not reliable. Therefore when you found study program go to the official website of the university and find info relevant to your study program. 
  1. Master portal 
  2. DAAD- Germany Universities 
  3. Study EU
Check the admission requirement and deadline for application

When you interested about study program curriculum, Then you need to check admission  requirement and , when the application period begins and end. If you have question regarding application process you can contact respective admission coordinator to clarify your issue.

Check the scholarships availability for your selected program

Recently, most of EU universities have demanded tuition fee from international students. If you have financial irregularities and your have excellent academic background then you apply scholarships. There 3 types of scholarships you may be able to applied.  
  1. University funded scholarships
  2. Government funded scholarships
  3. Third party ( world bank, UN, NGOs,) funded scholarships 


There may be 3 types of scholarships according to the funding amount 
  1. Full scholarships (  Full tuition fee waiver + living stipend )
  2.  Full tuition fee waiver
  3. 50% tuition fee waiver
You need to collect all the information relevant to scholarships. 

Prepare your Excel sheet( Master organizer)

You need to prepare Excel sheet for store all the information relevant to your study programs and scholarships. You will never miss any thing if you have strong master organizer. I advice to name 

Prepare your admission documents and apply before deadline
Application requirements. documents, differ from university to university. However if you have Master Organizer your have clear intention about required documents. usually you need below documents.We advise you to prepare your documents before the start application period to submit successful application .  
  1. Certified Copies of Degree Certificate and Transcript
  2. IELTS/ TOEFL 
  3. Passport
  4. CV
  5. Motivation Letter
  6. Recommendation Letters
After preliminary evaluation  you might have to face interview. Therefore After application you should prepare for face interview. 
Apply scholarship 
Usually government and third party scholarships require separate application for their scholarships. And Sweden Universities also request separate application for their tuition free scholarships. Usually university scholarships no need separate application for scholarship.  You need to focus required documents and prepare before application deadline.   

Choose your University

You will receive admission results after 1-2 months of your master application. we advice you o apply more than one University. Due to that, You will have higher opportunity to receive study place. If you have more than one study place you can choose best study place. However application results of different universities  will release on different dates. Then you have to be more mindful and intelligent to select best study place because you need more than 2 months to bring resident permit. We advise you to find out immigration procedure of respected country to get idea about time duration.      

Accommodation
You should apply university dormitory or private accommodation before commence your degree. So that, Contact your university to get more information.
Visa and Permit 
Day after accept study place you should find out immigration procedure and prepare documents as soon as possible.  This steps is time consuming. You will find more information on respective embassy website.                                                                                                                                 

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