For PhD:
If you haven’t decided your PhD topic yet. First of all decide a topic in which you really have interest and you know you can do an advance and outstanding research in it. If you don’t know which topic to choose then search relevant thesis online according to your scope of study, if you really find interest in it at the end of the thesis you will see what is future of this work, if you think you can do any good contribution in it in future work shortlist that topic for your PhD. About this topic find latest papers and study that and make an outstanding research proposal. Shortlist universities according to world ranking in your field in Germany and search relevant supervisors in each university who have research paper in your selected topic. Shortlist many supervisors and email them. Never send same email to every supervisor because they have experience in receiving such emails, so every time change email a little according to supervisor interest and tell him about matching of his scope of work and your research proposal.
Keep in mind each professor receives many emails each day so be selective, make your full effort in writing email with full consideration and tell him clearly your achievements in academics and strengths. And ask if he has PhD position available. If he finds interest he will response you positively else try other shortlisted professor. In Germany and other many countries each professor has paid position for PhD so you just don’t worry for scholarship, he will pay you which are enough for living there happily and will send you admission letter from his university and scholarship by himself. In countries like China, Turkey, Australia, UK, and many other advance countries supervisor do not have paid position so he just accepts you as PhD candidate but after acceptance you have to apply to that specific university and the supervisor helps with your application and the scholarship.
After getting these scholarships from university or funding from supervisor directly you only have to give your ticket and visa by yourself to that country. Also in Finland, Norway, Germany, Austria and few other countries research degrees like Masters by research or PhD is free so even if you don’t get scholarship you can go there as there is no fee but it will cost you a little until you get a job there which you can easily get if you know their respective language and Computer Programming. And in all these countries medium of instructions in degrees are English. If you are not able to get these type of scholarships every country have its own scholarship program for international students normally once a year for example for Korea it is KGSP, for Turkey it is Turkey Bursary, for china it is China government scholarship for international students, for France paris Effil scholarship, Daad for Germany, Commonwealth for UK, Fullbright for US, AusAid for Australia, similarly for spain, MXT in japan etc etc. You have to search their dates regularly on available normal scholarship sites. you can apply for these their government scholarships which even pay your ticket as well plus all the things mentioned above like fees, living, other expenditures but in these scholarships competition is normally high as people from throughout world applies for these government scholarships of that countries. So first one option is more reliable. Also GRE is not as much must but mostly you have to do IELTS.
Also HEC have 90% overseas scholarships every year for china, Austria, Germany and turkey etc which is purely on NTS GAT basis and merit will vary according to your selected course and province as you can check merit in HEC website of every previous batch but you have to sign a bond with HEC to serve in your country after you MS leading to PhD or only PhD. 10% HEC overseas scholarships are there based on GRE sore for countries in UK, US, australia and Canada but same HEC bond as well.If you are willing for local MS leading to PhD in Pakistan you can easily get it by HEC indigenous scholarship offered in each year purely based on GAT marks and competition is really low and chances of getting it are high.
For Masters by Research:
Same applies as for PhD.
For Taught Masters:
Getting scholarship is bit tough than above two cases. The only way is to get government scholarship offered by that specific country government discussed above. You can search these government scholarships yearly on normal scholarship websites. Also you can see HEC overseas scholarships detail on HEC website. If you still have any question you can ask. But keep in mind you are not the only one who is applying for scholarship, people all over the world applies and search daily, so you have to do research, good grades are not enough, most of the times you get scholarship even with bad or worst grades because of finding right scholarship with hard work. I will recommend you to first shortlist two or three countries according to your interest to narrow down your search about scholarships, it will be easy to find each and every scholarship offered in that particular country, and try your best to fulfill requirements of these countries. This method will help you to fulfill need for that particular scholarships rather than searching all over the world without knowing which suits you best. If you want to come back after the degree to your Pakistan then you can choose any country but if you want to live there to do job as well after your degree I will prefer you to shortlist Germany, Australia and Canada. But keep in mind in Canada, US and UK the scholarship rate for international students is really low in start.
At the end I will just say after following all these above steps I have provided all the general information one can have about scholarships, if you have any question regarding any specific scholarship of your shortlisted country or watching on any scholarship website, you can ask me in detail about that rather than questioning too much of open choices. Remember me in your prayers.
