Part-1


Hello Friends,

Let's Start..
The reason why most people choose Germany for education is because of its very low tuition fees, good quality of education and higher availability of student jobs as compared to other countries. There are two type of Institutes of higher education in Germany.

1. Universities ( one can do PhD or Research after doing masters from these Universities)
   
2. Universities of Applied Sciences ( Fachhochschule)  ( one can't do PhD after getting masters's degree from these universities, they are more practical oriented). 

Germany is best if you want to do Masters or PhD. For Doing Bachelors i won't Recommend as there are very few programs available in English. The best way to search your Desired program and university is to go to DAAD website. www.daad.de . DAAD is acronym of (German Academic Exchange Service). It helps foreign and German students in studying abroad.
The Direct Link to find your desired program is this one.

http://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/internationalprogrammes/
07535.en.html.

Keep in mind that before applying to any university in Germany , you will have to keep almost € 7,716 ready as will be required for the visa processing. with out that money you can't apply for visa, and remember there are very few student grants available. if you don't have that much money, no need to apply for admission.

Getting Admission.

Many German universities neither require IELTS nor GRE. but IELTS is mandatory in Visa application, without it your visa can't be processed (for English Programs). here i will talk about Electrical Power Engineering.

There are 4 Universities in Germany which offer Masters in EPE in English Language.

1. RWTH Aachen ( www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/bdz/)
   
2. TU Darmstadt (www.tu-darmstdat.de/index.en.html)
3. BTU Cottbus (www.tu-Cottbus.de)
4. TU-Munich (TU-Munich)

Aachen and Darmstdat and Munich  are in Western Germany, are very old universties, TU Darmstdat is considered as Mother of electrical Engineering and both are part of TU9 [ excellence in engineering in Germany] , Big Cities,around € 650 tuition fees for RWTH-Aachen and €500 for TU Darmstdat,can find part time jobs easily,more expensive. TU Munich is ranked as best engineering university , but it's power engineering program is some what related to mechanical and process engineering , you can say they will teach you as to what happens behind the generator, where as the other three universites teach you as to what happens after the generator. Munich is very expensive city  .where as BTU is in Eastern Germany, it is relatively new university i.e.established in 1991 after German Reunification,small city,no tuition fees,part time jobs are rare,less expensive, the city is full of nationalists.


All four Provide online Application forms. mostly english programs start in Winter Semeters. you can find the deadlines, required documents,application processing fess and all related info on both the universities respective website and on Daad Website. There is also CHE ranking system of all universties .
But Ranking Doesn't Bother Much in Germany. The Link is this one http://www.daad.de/deutschland/hochschulen/hochschulranking/06543.en.html . however it doesn't matter which university you get in, you can transfer your credit hours lately in any university you want, but the credit points may be higher if you transferring from a low ranked university.

once you get the admission letter , you can now process the visa.

PS: My advice; as soon as you get the admission, you also apply for the accommodation in that city where to be university is situated, usually studetenwerk deals with the accomodation .(university has nothing to do with studentenwerk). it is a students body, you can find the web page of the required studentenwerk of your desired city by goggling studentenwerk following the name of the city. do it at least 3 months prior to commencing the studies.

German Student Visa Process.

Before getting the admission letter, one thing that you can do is to arrange your finances,as of now (23rd September 2009) , you need to deposit €7,716 in a bank account in Germany in your name. As soon as you get your admission letter, the first thing you should do is to go to Deutsche Bank branch in your city with the admission letter, your passport and NIC, the timing of student account Dealing is 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in Karachi during Winter semester. They will ask you to fill in a form send it to the branch of Deutsche Bank in Hamburg which deals with all student accounts. it is better to send it via TCS or DHL as it takes less time and assured to be delivered there. it takes three waorking days for your form to reach there. as soon as it reaches there, within 4 days you will get account confirmation letter through your email ( you l must provide email in account opening form).