Courses: A Guide For Young Students Pursuing Higher Education

A Guide for Young Students Aspiring Higher Educatic

(My background is engineering so engineering graduates might find it the most useful but l think that it is largely applicable in all fields)

If you have to ask questions like:

"Which program is best for my field?"

"Which scholarship is available?"

"What is required in a masters or a PhD?"

Frankly, you are not yet ready for even a consideration in to such study programs abroad or in Pakistan. More frankly, I've also been through this stage in my career. So there is nothing wrong in thinking about such questions.

However, here is the sequence of events which you should follow. After that, your questions would be more clear, goal oriented and to the point instead of being open ended, generic and not very useful (Remember? Asking the right questions is more important than getting the right answers.)

1. Identify your areas of expertise (The subjects in BSc which gave you the highest grip and grades both)

2. Identify your areas of interest (The subjects in BSc which got you extremely interested and curious about them)

3. Finally, find the common subjects in above both categories and ask yourself: In which field out of these, will I never get bored even if it meant working my whole life in to it? That is YOUR AREA. Note it down. Keep it safe

4. In identified area, start googling universities of different countries, relevant departments, faculty profile, their recent research publications (most important). Start studying those papers which seem most interesting to you

5. Meanwhile, try to do IELTS and GRE while you are doing all this their current activities/ ambitions. If interested, they will invite you to apply for admission

6. Finally, you will shortlist the departments and professors, make research proposals in line with their current activities / ambitions. If interested, they will invite you to apply for admission

7. There you go but be ready mentally and be flexible enough because you might find yourself in altogether a diferent field than what you prepared for during this process, But that is following this procedure once, you have proved that you can follow it again and this is precisely what research is about. You can follow your personal interests and ambitions after your PhD

P.S: The methodology presented above is mostly for the top universities of America, Canada, Australia, Europe or Even UK (sponsored research / degree). For other countries, it might be a little different or relaxed but it is still better and recommended way of pursuing post grad ambitions. All the best!