lol ya i get it.......i probably rushed ur post!
so hmmm wot do u say then? its no good being at UET ? is it 50-50%? or like i mean your friends any reason for not getting the credit transfered?
hmmm is it possible if i can speak to them lol? im moving back after 7-8 years so i have no cluee and im in need of massive help :)
Rehaan, if you want to transfer abroad, why not go for NUST like I did? And if you come here to Michigan State or Iowa State Univ, all your credits would automatically be transferred, as there is a collaboration between them. And btw, NUST is academically better than UET and I would recommend it, eventhough UET is also a good eng. school in Pak.
Well i am a student of uet lhr. Im in 6th term of my BSc elect engg.
And I can assure u that uet is the best institution available in pakistan.
About the rumour that teachers left uet because of some policy etc..no its wrong and ridiculous. No teacher has left uet for on this ground.
The admission test date is 26 of this month and the application date well im not sure about that. u have to check uet for this matter.
A friend of mine got his credits transferred to some usa institute and it was not that difficult for him but if u do wanna get credits transferred its better if u choose NUST. The admission process has started in Pakistan(almost about to) so dont get late. and be there.
Hey I am an old uetian too.
Really recalling it thats why got to this thread...hehe, its a worth remembering place!
Anectodically speaking, a friend of mine did his Civil Engg from UET (late 80's), got a gold medal, and got admission in MIT for Masters. He says that for the first year of the Masters, he really had to struggle very hard because the basic engineering foundations laid down by UET were so poor, and the difference in syllabii and teaching methods was enormous. However, at the end of the day, the guy ended up with real top honors from MIT as well, so I suspect it was more to do with the person's abilities than UET. He is now running a very successful computer consulting company in Pakistan and US. Few other UET grads I know, did their Masters from US and are now working for Sun, Intel, Cisco and other top companies. And are doing really well.
Well with all due respect Faisal, I have not met any UETian who struggled at a USA institution due to poor undergraduate education….Not that I am trying to discredit your claim but a situation like that is definitely more of an exception than the rule (and yes you did recognize this point in your post....so shame on me for picking on your statement!)
To the original poster, let me give you an example of my session. I am an ex-UETian and over 80 students from my batch came to US/Europe for MS/Phds. Most of them went to top US/Canadian/European/Asian schools (Oxford, Delft, Tsinghua, Seoul National, Austin, Urbana, Georgia Tech, Madison, Stanford, Imperial, Karlshrue, Purdue, Cambridge, Minnesota, Toronto, McGill, Alberta, Ann Arbor, Kyoto etc) and I don’t recall anyone facing academic problems. Almost all of us had graduate research or teaching assistantships. Most of them went on to work for big engineering and Fortune-500 companies (Microsoft, Sun, Intel, Kraft, Exxon, Cisco, Schlumberger, Yahoo, Bechtel, URS, AMEC etc).
Yes, adjusting from an annual system to a fast-paced semester system used to be a challenge but that particular problem does not exist anymore as UET’s academic system has been switched to the semester system. My personal academic experience at US encompassed attending an engineering school (top 20 in my engineering major), Chicago and an Ivy League institution for a full-time MBA and by grace of Allah, I always earned a spot on the dean’s list. And I do owe it to the quantitative rigor that I went through at UET-Lahore and GC-Lahore (proud Old Ravian!). Two of my friends were able to take credit (partial) for their UET course work at Austin but it varies from one school to other.
Now let me tell you one thing and I am 100% sure about this. Whether you go to LUMS, NUST, GIK or UET, it won’t make a big difference as far as credit transfer to US institutions is concerned. As I said before, it will vary from one US school to other. All of them are good accredited Pakistani Universities and you will have no problem getting admission to good US schools for MS/MBA/Phd (as long as you were a top student) but none of them have any sort of clout among US institutions. The only institution that has a clout among US institutions is IIT from India. PERIOD. So guys, please stop this baseless discussion of NUST vs GIK vs UET vs XYZ. And please don’t quote one-time events…..we are talking about widespread perception not anecdotal evidences.
UET-Lahore has by far the largest and most accomplished engineering alumni base (from Pakistan) in North America. And it is not surprising. From 1947 to 1997, it enjoyed the reputation of best engineering school in the country and every top student after his/her FSC used to come here. Yes, the school faced strikes and riots in 80s but it is not a reflection of UET’s academic standards. It was due to Zia’s turbulent period and every institution in the country including medical schools faced the same predicament during that period.
Re: UET, Lahore How good/bad is this school?
sorry..did not realize that it was a 6-yr old thread.....i wonder what prompted arsalan to post on a 6-yr old thread!
Re: UET, Lahore How good/bad is this school?
I'm a uetian as well .... it as good institution as any1 in pakistan ....and dnt worry u can get admission any where in d world u want ..... like me , i m doing PHD from university of manchester ..soforget abt all these issues ... n lets get down to study hard...ok first thing first get the good marks .... then think of shifting ur credit hours to good uni's....best ov luck ..