Some useful links

The universities and the ranking system

Unlike Pakistan, the Germans do not rank the universities as this is the number 1
university and this is number 2. Rather they put the universities in certain groups and
from this you can understand where a university stands. To compare and contrast
between different universities, follow the following link and you’ll get an idea.
https://ranking.zeit.de/che/en/

Search the university’s ranking from the link mentioned above.

Living costs and the standard of living in different cities

To get an idea about how costly it is to live in a certain city or a country, use the
following link. You can’t just compare German cities here but cities from all over the
world.

www.numbeo.com

Finding a place to live

Of course you must have applied for an accommodation to the studentenwerk but if you
haven’t already got the accommodation, following are some websites via which you can
look for a temporary residence

https://www.studentenwerke.de/en/ (For permanent residence) (Apply if you are dead

sure that you’ll get an admission from the university you have applied in or as soon as
you get your admission letter because is normally takes around 8-10 months to get an
accommodation from studentenwerk)

For temporary residence:

http://www.wg-gesucht.de/

http://www.wohnung-jetzt.de/

http://www.wohnpool.de/

Apart from these, you can always use Airbnb and www.booking.com
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Getting to know about Germans in general and student life in particular

Following are some of the YouTube channels and are very much useful to get to know
about Germany and student life there. I am not their ambassador but I found these
really useful.

https://www.youtube.com/user/himolikd (Bharat in Germany)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgZqY6QG3BanMYQaE_arNGA (MensPRO)

https://www.youtube.com/user/MeisterLehnsherr (Get Germanized)

https://www.youtube.com/user/SamWaltonMan (The Real Sam Walton)

Apart from these, you can always watch documentaries of Deutsche Welle (DW). Will
come very much handy in getting to know Germany in advance.

Learning German

If you are not willing to go to an institution to learn German and/or just not want to spend
money on it, following are some links via which you can learn German.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwegPHTG4gvnR0WLzaq5OQ (Learn German

with Anja)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClBrbJXNh2sFxOuvH4o5H9g (Learn German with

Jenny)

Apart from these, you can always download apps from Google Playstore (Not sure if
they are available on Apple app store too coz I am an android user and coz Apple sucks
anyway! Lol)

DW’s Learn German (Icon on Google PlayStore)

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DerDieDas (Icon on Google PlayStore)

German Words (Icon on Google PlayStore)

Drops (Icon on Google PlayStore)

I hope the above links will come in handy for you. Please pray for me, this is all what I
want from you. Thank you!

Best regards,

Abdul Moiz !!