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Benefit from Research Funding by the Turkish Government: Application is opened

You can benefit from this. Yearly, the Turkish government sponsor worthy Project in Cyprus and application is opened twice yearly.

The maximum period of research: 3 years

Funding per year (given to researcher): 720,000 TL (approx. 105,000USD/yearly)

Type of research and purpose: The purpose is to support projects that comply with scientific principles for generating new information, making scientific comments or solving technological problems. Research in various fields is funded.

Beneficiary: All universities in North Cyprus.

Evaluation: Applicant will be evaluated based on CV, research application and publication records.

What do you do with the money?: You buy machines you need for your work, any other facilities, pay researchers working with you could be master, PhD, undergraduate or any researcher working with you. Use a part for conferences, part to develop market-ready products etc and get paid.


I have benefited and completed the project worth 1 million TL and am also applying again this year..... you also can apply. , your supervisor can also apply and you work as a researcher in the project and get a monthly salary.



Develop worthwhile research skills for an innovative future...build a CV/profile beyond CGPA of 4.999999....be employable irrespective of country, language or gender.

Modella44:
Prof Wip7, I sent you an email yesterday, please reply. Thank you.

Seen ... I will reply.

EMU Gives Cash Cheque Award to Successful Students

Students who made it to the top 10 within their Faculty or Schools, were awarded a 3 category cash cheque. The awards were given in 3 categories, with students achieving first place receiving 3 times the minimum wage amount, while second place students received 2 times the minimum wage amount and third-place students received the amount equivalent to minimum wage.


Interested in Studying at EMU? Contact WIP7


Enhance your CV beyond just the CGPA.......be employable globally!


Develop demanding skills (soft and hard skills) alongside your education irrespective of the country you are; tap the stable electricity and available internet facilities.


Irrespective of what you are studying; you can develop skills in any of the following:

---Scientific and Cloud computing

----Business analysis using data modelling

----Artificial intelligence (look into machine learning and ANN depends on your taste): highly in demand in various fields

----Blockchain; the core technology used in developing the cryptocurrency

----UI and modern light-weight video production

---- Smart device fabrication

pseudonomer:
Electronic Engineering(Embedded Systems and Autonomous Systems) but intend to focus on Autonomous Systems. I’m in Germany.

Autonomous Systems is good and becoming more popular these days. I completed one of my masters in Germany years back ...

If I may ask why do you want to take out Embedded systems? I believe both are correlatively linked. I have some background knowledge of the embedded system. I used to be vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering and we had a staff (he had a PhD in computer systems) that we co-supervised some students in these fields.

Do you have any skills with AI, neural network or machine learning? if yes this will be great for your Autonomous systems.

pseudonomer:
Does one needs to be studying in Turkey/North Cyprus to carry out this research with you guys?

Partly Yes and NO.

First to benefit financially your address must carry Turkey/North Cyprus. Only researchers with an affiliation (Turkey/NC) on the published research paper can be paid by the Turkish Government.

Second: For the research, I have co-researchers in various countries, I have also benefited from RSC funding which pays for a research visit to the UK universities, also, I have ex-students still on the project working in another country (my recent PhD student from EMU/NC works in a University in Ontario and we still work together) and currently co-supervising students in Universities in Canada, USA and Germany.

The main thing is the researcher must have access to the lab, equipment or field/sites to carry out the research and also depends on the type of research. For example, we have research in battery development, if you are working in this research you must have all raw materials to fabricate the electrodes and also have the equipment to carry out the electrochemical testings.

Another way, we have a researcher working on Machine learning to design model to predict disease and favourable conditions for Greenhouse farming. She is based in Kenya and we only supply her the sensors for data collecting and trained her virtually how to do; the data collection fields are in Kenya and Tanzania so she needs to collect data there and its sync to our cloud then we evaluate and design model. The researcher got funding (travelling and others) from the company she works for, we are just consulted.

What field are you into?

FreeMejoor1:
can your email me sir i need some first hand info about turkey under graduate admission..peterchigozie029@gmail.com...i await your response..

No I can’t email you.


If you have a question about studying in Turkey please ask here.

If you want to apply for admission and have full tuition fee to pay, living expenses and wants me to secure the admission you can email me your documents after you confirm you have financials to support your education.

pittoilet:
I sent you another mail, please check sir

Ok I shall respond when I receive.

pittoilet:
Sent you an email already

Okay I have seen.

METU is highly ranked university and have strict admission criteria. All applicants need to have atleast 5 credits including English and maths. For METU; additional 3 good grades in other related subjects to the field student want to study.

From the result you sent; the applicant will not be admitted by METU. Other universities in Turkey will only admit him to foundation level which cost around 4000$ a year. I encourage the applicant to get another result (combined) or go for the foundation if can afford it.

pittoilet:
OK which other viable options are available in turkey alongside metu?

There are many universities in Turkey with quality education system. Last semester, I recruited over 60 students to universities in Ankara, Istanbul and other parts of Turkey.

The majority of the universities that does not use quota system are private universities and undergraduate fees ranges from 3500-5000$/year.

Email me the result of such student let me have a look at the grades and tell the course student want to study.

Important: after completing 5 years education in Turkey, you can be eligible for Turkish citizenship if you would meet all of the criteria under conditions that your student permit residence permit would be transferred to work permit.

pittoilet:
Wip7 could you help with metu turkey admission for undergraduate studies?

Hi,

Yes. However, METU Turkey has quota for foreign student and result of the applicant must be quite good for them to select.

Admission is Ongoing at EMU


Interested in Studying at Eastern Mediterranean University? due to the pandemic, the initial payment has been slashed to 500$ and also we have just concluded rectorship election at EMU. The university will be opening new departments/programs in Artificial intelligence Engineering, Water Process Engineering, Smart and Advanced Agricultural Sci/eng etc.

If you are interested to study and carry out research in Sensor development for rapid detection of virus/bacteria, Energy storage devices like battery development and supercapacitor, Solar energy conversion, Pollution monitoring with AI-enabled devices, air and water pollution control, material synthesis for biomedical applications, Machine learning for various applications (health, waste prediction, econs etc).........kindly contact me ( I am a professor at EMU working in these research areas).

Benefits of Developing Academic and Industrial Demand Research Skills:

Learning and developing research skills is something that is lost in many educational systems. In fact, the majority of the students are only interested in getting the best grades and do much cramming at times to achieve this without actually developing unique or demanding skills. Hence, turn out to have an unattractive CV or non-competitive profile. After graduation, moving from one country to work elsewhere or even starting a job in the same country will require sound, currently/emerging skills well-spelt in the applicant CV/resume.

So after spending 40,000 British pounds to get 2nd class honour degree in Electrical Engineering or in Business administration.....so do you have some demanding skills, needed experience in your CV/resume or you have the same regular CV like others and just emphasizing on the fact that you graduated with CGPA of 4.999.

Employers (either business organization, industries or academics) love research skills. Research is an important part of a business because it helps an organization keep up with changing technologies, develop new products, get better at what they do, keep an eye on its competitors etc. Irrespective of the country, university or language you studied, a competitive profile is largely favoured and in-demand these days


----With sound research skills, you may be developing your own product which investor can put money, you be solving challenges that craft income also for you and many other benefits.


How can you demonstrate your research skills or the unique experience?

In many cases, your CV is your chance to make a first, strong and competitive impression. Your CV will help employers check you’ve got the right skills and experience. If they can see you’ve got them, it’s likely you’ll get to the next stage.

As a student, you can demonstrate either of these or combination via:

--Your research publication in a reputable journal (very important because its peer-reviewed)
--Your dissertation/project/thesis (if published and easily accessible)
--Personal and accessible webpages linking to your profile showing the skills.


Is it enough to claim you have python, C# or Machine learning Skills in your CV?

Various students/persons fill skills they don't have in their CV or skills they have just less than 2% knowledge of. Therefore, if you are claiming to have machine learning or AI (artificial intelligence skills), market/economics forecasting skills, or sound with device development or software development or as strong crisis mitigator............you have to point to the actual project you have completed with these skills rather than just filling " I have significant knowledge of Machine learning" ..............Rather, you have to point to the verifiable projects you have done with such skills.


Is research just for a graduate student?

No. research is for all categories of students be it undergraduate, graduate-level or post-graduate students.


Are there benefits to research at EMU?

Apart from the above listed;

--EMU pays as much as nearly 1000$ per the research paper you published in a reputable journal (accessible by all level of students)

---Turkish government pay as much as 2200$ per the same paper.

----Meaning that researcher may get as much as EMU+ Turkish government payment per research paper.

----With good research skills, you stand a great chance to get further funding from the government and other funders.

---You stand a chance to pitch your products to the world via the Teknorpaks and start-ups events.

Are there limits? no limits irrespective of the department and it's payable as soon as they verified the paper in the WEB OF SCIENCE platform.


WIP7: I have published over 50 research articles, have benefited from the Turkish government 1 million Turkish Lira (nearly 56 million naira) TUBITAK funding, Green brain project funding, have two lab ready-products (glucose sensors under evaluation for markets). Supervised 10 PhD students currently and numbers of masters and undergraduate students.


Interested at EMU? Contact WIP7



Education should focus on the enhancement of skills, knowledge and experience!

lordbeans:
Hi wip7,

After you finished your PhD, were you confused as to which direction to go? I am presently in that phase. I need some mentoring from you please.

Hello,

No, I was not confused.

During my Masters and PhD studies, my supervisors don't understand English and I was not ready to learn their language. I self-sponsored all my graduate education, during that time I averagely make 70,000USD per semester from my business; so I have money to buy various software, to register for various training, buy books and online courses. With all these, I developed varying background skillsets. So this helps me to understand my field even more than my supervisors.

Also, there are several types of equipment not available in my university; I found private research labs where I paid around 15,000USD to learn over several weeks. I self-sponsored myself to many congress and workshops (although my university provides some funding for such). So I developed significant skills in material synthesis, characterization far beyond what my supervisors can even imagine and sometimes they just assumed he must be a spirit.

After that, I become highly confident. I started self-learning other fields like industrial engineering, mechanical and some parts of electrical just to have some fundamental skills that correlate with my background education. By the time I graduated, I have broken records in my department. I became Assistant professor just 3 weeks after my PhD graduation, with my varying background I became vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering after 2 years and Associate Professor and that slightly switched my research area.

I am a person that always love to learn many things, always want to accomplish daily. So after PhD; I decided to split my research into the following 5 major fields (energy storage/conversion, biomedical, air/water/solid pollution control, sensors and device fabrication; corrosion) and I decided to enter each field from one orifice (material synthesis and application). So is Like using one big stone to target 5 birds.


So let me know why you are confused? this will provide background information to mentor and redirect your focus.

arafat95:
Mr WIP, please I will like to forward my documents to your email, but I can't get it here, I'm interested in doing my masters at CIU.
Regards

My email is in the signature part of each of my reply.

chem58:
Evening prof ,I really appreciate your effort on we young researchers.Even though we are not paying you consultation fees(lol).God will reward you sir....sir am interested in energy storage(fuel cell) and sensor ..? Please can you provide me with some emerging areas. So as to write a proposal on it.the university I intend to run my PhD have this following equipment in there laboratory.
Uv/vis spectrometer,Spectrometer fluorescence
Gas chromatography,Vacuum glove box
XRD,Biochemical incubators,Freeze dryer,TEM,SEM,FIB,TG-DTA,HIGH RESOLUTION,XRD,BET,XPS,PPMS,MPMS,ICP
OXYGEN NITROGEN ANALYZER.thank you sir

Hello,

Research area/studies in both Energy storage (Fuel Cell) and sensors (electrochemical/biosensor) are an emerging field of studies with practical and industrial applications.

Since you don't have background knowledge in either; I encourage you to spend time to know each of this field. There is a plethora of information about each that you can google to have some basic understanding.

After you make your decision on which of the fields you want to focus your research, visit ScienceDirect, Google scholar etc; search for recent works 7 years to date and check for common drawbacks, challenges and how you can contribute to the selected field.

Every PhD applicant and candidates must be able to search for information via the right channels, try to make sense of it and come up with sound justifications.

After you are done, you can write your PhD proposal and then if you need further help don't hesitate to share here so many can also assist.

Best wishes!

EMU: Reduction of Initial Payment For EMU Admitted Students

We are happy to share the following good news with you during the "COVID-19 outbreak:

1. The pre-payment received from international students for the “confirmation letter” is reduced to $500, for all programs excluding the Undergraduate Medicine and Dentistry Programs, applicable only in the 2020-2021 Fall semester.

2. The pre-payment received from international students for the “confirmation letter” is reduced to $2500 for the Undergraduate Medicine and Dentistry Programs, applicable only in the 2020-2021 Fall semester.


Interested in studying at EMU? Contact WIP7

chem58:
Prof am A chemistry graduate with research area on environmental chemistry.mainly on environmental impact accesement of PAHs , sir I have interest in fuel cell ,sensor for my PhD....Prof can you enlighten me on how to write proposal on this research area.i have no foundation on it and ave not work on it before.

Kindly read many of my posts backwards, you will see how to write a PhD/MSC proposal. If you are very interested in Sensor related research, then you have to first ensure your chosen university has the equipment or willing to invest in equipment for sensor-related work.

Read on ScienceDirect recent published papers on Electrochemical-based and biosensors. You will need to have sound knowledge of electrochemistry to make a good sense of sensor-related research works.

Best wishes!

biggeek007:
Prof Wip, I graduated last year (Bsc) and didn't apply for the April Msc session because they haven't released our Bsc certificate. I don't want to wait until next year as school is still on lockdown because of the virus and I am not sure they will be issuing Bsc cert anytime soon, can i apply for Msc with my result transcript (100-400lvl) ? Your thread has been of immense help to me, thank you very much.

Do you have statement of result that you graduated?

If yes, then I can apply for with your transcript and the statement of result. If not, if you can get a letter from your university stating you have graduated then that will suffice pending when you are able to supply the original certificate.

Publication June 2020: Conversion of Toxic Gas into Valuable Hydrogen Fuel


Summary: In this research, we focus on the conversion of Hydrogen sulphide, which is an acutely corrosive, flammable and toxic gas; often discharged from natural resources. Despite its toxicity, hydrogen sulphide is considered a viable source for hydrogen and sulfur production due to its abundant availability and relatively low thermodynamic decomposition. In this work, we converted this toxic gas into valuable fuel.

Publisher: Published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, June 2020

Research Team: Prof. Wip and my Graduate PhD students in Canada, Iraq and Iran.

Clinolit:
Wow! Hearty congratulations, Prof! Keep winning!

Your research ethic and work rate are superb and very commendable. I just found your Researchgate profile and was blown away to say the least. You are a very great inspiration.

Thank you and I appreciate.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering and my research areas lie at the nexus of Model-Predictive Control Systems, Active Disturbance Rejection Control, and Robotics.

It is a quite impressive and emerging field of EE.

Presently, I have three publications (all co-authored) - a journal with Applications of Modelling and Simulation, which I hear isn't indexed on Scopus, and two conference papers with IEEE (one is available on IEEEXplore). I'm working on two other papers at the moment that will be submitted to the Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ) (indexed on Scopus).

As an upcoming scholar; avoid submitting your valuable works to non-reputable journals. Focus more on Journals indexed in WOS, SCI, SCI-E (these gain more reputation and widely known and mostly use to grade your profile. Any journal indexed in the above databases will surely be under Scopus. But not all Scopus papers are indexed in the above. So I encourage you to go for the super-set rather than the sub-set.

ASTESJ: yes indexed in Scopus but why you want to submit your two works there? It has less low metrics, so If I were you, I will submit one of the papers to a more reputable journal in my field.

I only started my journey as a researcher in 2018 after my baccalaureate so I'm relatively new to the whole process. At the moment, I use MATLAB/Simulink, EDraw, MS Visio, and AxMath (for LaTeX editing), as my major research tools.

Those are great. Well done! As you deep more into research and practical application and real-life utilization of your work, you will come across more tools that are needed in your field.

I'm interested in starting applications for an MS in Robotics and Control Systems (or any EE/MechE program with a Robotics track) towards Fall 2021. To bolster my application, I plan to first-author and publish a paper with a journal that is indexed on Elsevier or Scopus, with a good impact factor.

Impressive, just consider journals indexed in WOS, SCI, SCI-E, they are a superset of Scopus. Almost, all Elsevier journals have great ratings, including number of Springer, Taylor & Francis and Willey Journals.

The major challenge is that I can't seem to find any good free journals to do this. So, I would love it if you could help recommend some quality journals for Robotics, Automation, 3D Printing, CAD, and Control systems.

The majority of reputable journals are free to publish. I have said it several times, I have published more than 60 reputable articles and I have never paid 1 dollar to publish a paper. I have published in Journal with an Impact factor of 14.34 (Applied Environmental Journal: Elsevier and free).

If you publish in Elsevier journals, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Willey Journals. Just select Subscription. Take note, with these publishers majority of the journal, has both subscription (Free) and open-access mode (paid). The Subscription model is FREE in reputable journals.

See attached pictures to help you navigate.

Also, none of my papers have been cited since they were published, so I was wondering if there were some tips you could give this budding researcher to get more citations and visibility.

Thank you, Prof. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Cheers.

There are a few reasons that may lead to that, which I will stress out here:

1. If you publish in non-reputable journals, many reputable scholars hardly or don't even read those type of journals. For instance, there are a number of predatory journals coming from Asian countries, I don't even bother checking the webpage talk of reading any valuable research published there. Because the majority of these publishers are just for money, not quality, lacks strict peer review enshrined by other reputable and well-known publishers.

2. If the majority of the content published does not advance science but a mere repetition of already known facts but re-written in another style. Many people don't want to cite what is well-known already unless your work advances or cover a knowledge-gap.

3. Valued information, protocols and well-written reproducible results, discussions and technical support must be seen in a paper that will warrant citations.

4. Poor Visibility: Since the majority of these low-quality journals are less visible, may not be archive by any university libraries, not registered with social media for scientific dissemination of knowledge, not found easily via a search engine. All these will cumulate to limit the visibility of your work. So you may have to share your works among colleagues, friends, should be easily archived by Google scholar, Research-Gate etc, this increases the chance of someone founding it and read it.

5. Bad or poor keywords: Search engines crawl by picking keywords in the meta-layer of the papers. Your keywords must not be too long, too general, too boring and non-captivating. For example, if you work on Robotics and you put Keyword as "robots".....when someone searches for 'Robot' if your publisher ranking is low, it means it may take ages to reach your paper.

6. Low-quality visuals: If your results are presented through low-quality images, figures and tables; many people may not trust the content.


I hope you can use all these to enhance your next papers.

Best wishes

Kj40:
Prof wip, I sent a message to your email recently, am yet to read from you.

Sorry just replied all my email ...

Clinolit:
Wow! Hearty congratulations, Prof! Keep winning!
Cheers.

I will respond.

Happy Eid to All

As you all celebrate, may the joyous occasion of Eid spread joy, peace and happiness to your heart and across your home.

Prof. WIP

Happy Eid to All

As you all celebrate, may the joyous occasion of Eid spread joy, peace and happiness to your heart and across your home.

Prof. WIP

etrange:
Hhmm...

Why do you have up to 3 hidden layers with all those nodes? Isn't that prone to over-fitting?

Very interesting question.

Although the presence of more hidden layer makes training of the network a bit more complicated; however, no rule to as how many hidden layers a model should have. Practically, the more the hidden layers between the input and output layers turns the Perceptron into a universal approximator, which indicates that your network may be robust and capable of capturing and reproducing extremely complex input-output relationships.

If you have a very complex relationship, such a task may be accomplished faster with higher accuracy with Deep Learning Neural Network and deep learning can have as much as even 7 hidden layers.

A specific case, I had a project to design a model that can be used for a greenhouse farm project. The goal is to optimize the farm yield and notify the owner of changes in conditions (physical parameters) that may lead to issues. In this project, independent variables were 20, instances were 20,500 (quite large). Here, 11 training algorithms were used to train the dataset, the results of the training algorithm can be seen attached. LMA was the best training algorithm and it suggested 11 nodes of 3 hidden layers. So I did not choose the number of hidden layers but the training algorithm selected that considering the fact that am trying to minimize the errors.

etrange:
Isn't that prone to over-fitting?

Yeah, over-fitting is a common occurrence. This was eliminated by normalizing my data and I also applied two regularization methods (LI/L2 regularization). But from my experience, overfitting often occurs not because of the number of hidden layers but when the model tries to predict a trend in data that is too noisy.... and this can be eliminated by data augmentation.

etrange:
Why are you still using sigmoid ø as your activation function for your hidden layers? Isn't this outdated?

Sigmoid is never outdated, it depends largely on your data type and nature of machine learning/ANN application you want to use your data for

Machine learning or Artificial neural network applications are majorly two: approximation and classification applications.

There are several activation functions for the hidden layers but here the most common activation functions:

Linear activation function : This will not really make sense for classification application (in hidden layer) since the output of a perceptron with linear activation function is simply the combination of that neuron. It is like a=b. The linear activation function is very used in the output layer of approximation neural networks.

Hyperbolic tangent activation function: The hyperbolic tangent is widely used because it has a monotonous crescent function which exhibits a good balance between a linear and non-linear behaviour. Interestingly, it has a sigmoid shape and varies in the range (−1,1) making it very useful in the hidden layers of neural networks for approximation and classification tasks.

Logistic (Sigmoid) activation function: A logistic function is a common S-shaped curve (sigmoid shape) . If you look at the shape of the Logistic (Sigmoid) function, you will see that it extends within (0,1). This is a good property because the outputs here can be interpreted in terms of probabilities. Therefore, it is widely and frequently used for binary classification tasks.

Rectified linear (relu) activation function: This is a non-linear activation function and is more computationally efficient than other non-linear activation functions due to its simplicity, and very used in the hidden layers of neural networks for approximation and classification tasks.


ANN Classification tasks that use Logistic (sigmoid) activation:

---Breast cancer diagnosis: For this class of applications, the neural network is composed of scaling layer, perceptron layers and probabilistic layer. Take note the perceptron layers will use logistic hidden layer and a logistic output layer since the logistic function ranges from 0 to 1, the outputs from that layer can be interpreted as probabilities (either the person has breast cancer (1) or the person does not have breast cancer (0)).

----Detect forged banknotes: This is also a classification application where the ANN can predict via a binary classification as either (forged banknote (1) or legal (0)). So the task will be to model the probability that a banknote is fraudulent or not, as a function of input data features.

----Detect Fraudulent (spam) email from Yahooyahoo guys: Google and related companies use machine learning model for this application and its majorly a classification tasks (meaning it will use Logistic activation (sigmoid) or ReLu or Swish etc). For Google, it is now highly advanced to the point that it can detect and filter out spam and phishing emails with nearly 99.9 per cent accuracy. It either classifies the email as spam (1) or real (0)...this is sigmoid activation.

.....Many more applications.

Meanwhile, each activation has its advantages and disadvantages. For instance, ReLU is computationally efficient (allowing faster convergence of the network) and is non-linear; its major disadvantage is that when the inputs approach zero the network finds it difficult to perform backpropagation and cannot learn anymore. Google uses ReLU for many of their AI applications but some of the recent works from then seems to favour Swish which is a self-gated activation function and they say it performs nearly 1% higher in classification than ReLU. Sigmoid/Logistic gives clearer predictions and prevents Jumps in output values but it is computationally expensive especially if you have a very large dataset and also has varnishing gradient problem (making the network to be slow to learn).


You can always play with many activation functions, the entire goal is to reduce your errors, advance your classification or prediction level very high so as to build a model that can at least give nearly 99.9 accuracies. For me, I use various and I play with various activation functions just like I play with a various training algorithm.

I hope this answers your question.

haroldwilly780:
Plz all d guru in the house. .keep us updated on when flight will resume in Turkey and n.cyprus. .....cus that's d most important thing right now. .....if not so, sch will have to offer us options of receiving lectures online. ..

Yeah, there options to take the courses online if flights are not opened until Oct. That way, the university will offer a 30% discount (instead of 20%) until the students are able to Join the university physically.

Admission Opens: Interested to Study?

For applicants interested to study at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU): The admission process opens. EMU is the most ranked university in North Cyprus and with the highest international outlook and its degrees are internationally recognized with accreditations from notable bodies like ABET (USA) and ASIIN (Germany) and many more.

Undergraduate per year is averagely 4500$ (this includes 50% scholarship) and almost all courses are offered with top-level infrastructure and research facilities.

Private Universities in N.Cyprus: If you are interested in newer private universities like Cyprus Science/west Universities or Cyprus International University:

CIU: Cyprus International University is an English-language private university in Northern Cyprus and highly reputable among the private universities in North Cyprus. The Undergraduate fee before Corona Pandemic is 3100 euro/year but with the pandemic, the university board is currently offering 20% discount making the fees to be 2480 euro/year while the initial fee is now 1000 euro.


CSU: fees for undergraduate is 2600$/year and master program for the whole period is 2200$. The initial fees is 1500$


CWU: Here the fees for their available programs are attached here and the initial fee is 1400$.

If you interested in any of these universities, do not hesitate to contact me via my email or drop a message here.

elijah101:
sir do you think that this avrasya city is a good investment ... it is going for 84k pounds

I don't know where the Avrasya city project is located. Irrespective;

For me, I often consider the following as my input parameters to predict if the investment is good or not when it comes to properties:

1. Location and significant attraction around the property: Think location first, and the property itself second; because the “right” property in the wrong location isn’t likely to be the right property at all. Proximity to amenities or facilities like University or Touristic beach/vacation zone is very ideal. A mid-to-long-term view regarding how the area is expected to evolve over the investment period must be an important factor to be considered.

2. Investment Purpose: Buy & Self-Use (Savings on rentals and value appreciation); Buy & Lease (Regular income and long-term value appreciation); Buy & Sell (Short-term: usually buy property under construction before selling at a profit on completion) or Buy & Sell (Long-term: value appreciation over a long period).

3. Return on Investment (ROI): The ROI must fall within 10-15%.

4. Fixes and Variable Expenses: Take note, an investment property abroad (Cyprus inclusive) is not a one-and-done purchase. There are expenses inherent in maintaining each property. Must times the developer don't tell you until you buy. An example, I pay 6500 pounds yearly for 8 apartments as "General upkeep costs (cleaning, landscaping, etc.)" which were not listed when selling the apartment. So you have to ensure you are ready for unexpected costs and your income from the rental must be able to fix it.

Best wishes

gadafi101:
@wip7

Good Day, Mr. Wip.

I hope you are doing well?

Please I'd like to know how to go about securing admission for my younger brother to the Pharm D program at EMU.  He presently has a BSc in Biochemistry from Babcock University Nigeria.
What I'd like to know is if he will just need to do top-up of courses at EMU and do some additional years to be award the Pharm D degree? Or what will be done in his case?

Regards

I replied your email regarding this, he will need at least 2 years to get the Pharm.D

elijah101:
Sir wip , I would to know the process thru which one can obtain a property in TRNC ... as a foreigner sha

It is very easy to buy. The purpose of the property will depend on the location and amount. Estate and various properties are springing up like mushrooms almost daily in Cyprus now, it looks a booming industry but not all the properties are worthy of investment unless it serves the purpose.

Legally, a foreigner can buy just one property under his/her name and get it registered. Buying and registering is stress-free stuff. If a foreigner wants to buy more than one, they cannot register under the same name.

To buy; if you are located in Cyprus, there are numbers of estate developers or agents you can just walk into their stores and they will show you catalogues with prices. After payment, you may need a lawyer to get it register and do the paperwork or do it yourself. After, that you can get the deed of contract or title from the government after some time. If not located in Cyprus, the property sellers have websites to contact them and they can make arrangement for a visit or direct purchase depends on them. Buyer can pay in cash or not.

There are things to consider when buying properties in Cyprus: I have properties in Cyprus and my major purpose is for business.

1. So I considered property that can give me at least 10-15% ROI yearly.
2. The property that the value will increase appreciably with time
3. Properties I can easily sell without the need to call herbalist or pastors to pray before selling
4. Property that can fetch either monthly or sustainable income.

There is some business sense to buy properties in Cyprus and I was able to use it and worked for me. In Cyprus, most developers will just buy land and advertise the property and if you are interested you pay per stage of development.

In 2015; I was searching for properties that meet the above 4 criteria. I decided to go for a property that is about to be started just 3 min walk from a lovely beach in Cyprus, the property is designed and projected to be used as a resort and the developer already built a similar in that place and are frequently rented by tourist and its hot-cake during the summer.

They were selling at 25% cheaper than if it is completed and it has varying selling price depends on which floor you select and size of an apartment; its 10-storey resort building. I bought, 5 apartments at 60, 000 pounds per one. If they complete it, they sell automatically for 75k each for the size and floor I selected. They projected to complete it in 2017 and one pays per stage. So they have like 5 stages of payment till the end. You only need to drop 10% in the first stage. For Cypriot, they can get a loan to even go to the toilet ( or just about anything) and they usually don't need collateral except for their names and address. I did good biz survey and I found that I can generate roughly 10-15% per year on each apartment. I paid 10% (50, 000 pounds) and I got my contract and some other papers. A British lawyer dealing with property in that place charged me 4000 pounds for paperwork for the 5 apartments. The second payment was like 6 months after, I decided to visit the bank to get a loan, all the banks said no loan ,....I was wondering why and I don't bother asking.

I said to myself I can easily pull money from my other biz to sort it. I decided to visit one of their credit banks (dedicated to issuing a loan). I asked for a loan and told her I have paid 50k out of 300K pounds.. the lady said they are very interested to give the loan because the investment seems worthy and the location is superb but they usually don't give foreigners loan and except if the foreigner is from certain countries like UK, USA, Canada etc (unfortunately Africa is not listed) because they said those places are easy to trace and have some sort of agreement with their central banks.

So I asked if I provide passport from any of the listed countries, so I get the loan she said yes in just 10 mins. I returned the next day with the passport of one of those listed countries, before you know it I was issued 10 years loan with 6% interest and no collateral just my house address. Their loan included fire/disaster and war insurance (cost 300 pounds yearly per apartment).

The resort was completed in 2017 December and I decided to pay the entire loan the same 2017 because the price of the apartment already increased to 75,000 pounds per one (my floor and size), so my intention was to sell all and make the 25% profit so that made me pay off the entire loan. After full payment and at the start of 2018; some swedes rented my apartments and looks attractive to me, so I started renting it out in 2018; during the summer period, tourist pay 130 euro per night, the management takes 30 euro commission per night/per apartment and return 100 euro to me. So in summer, the five apartments generate 500 euro daily.

So it's interesting and lovely currently (as at 2019 December pricing) the same apartment is selling for 85-90K due to the location, its a resort not a normal type of apartment so always have tourists and activities almost year-round. Also, it's very easy for me to sell these properties, unlike some properties that have no value or located at outskirts or too near the universities. Some people asked me why can't I buy just near the university, because we have voluminous students around to rent. It may sound good but I am more interested in Tourist, resort-like property because this one has huge value according to my business experience. I have friends that have property next to the university, during the school period it is good when no student around or due to increasing and almost daily construction of apartment in Cyprus, the older your house look the less attractive to students and the value also drops when wanting to sell. So I did the math, even If I don't rent my resort apartment for 6 months what I earn in 3 months summer renting is more than twice what the person rents year-round near the school and mine is easier to sell than his just next to the university. So its all boil down to one's risk appetite and biz outlook

What are the expenses and payment:

1. There is a yearly management fee (private company manages and clean the place)...this is almost the same for almost all apartments in Cyprus if is built by a developer in estate-like.

2. If you rent the apartment, you have to pay tax monthly/yearly to the government depends on the district and that will depend on the rental fee.

3. To get the Title of the apartment/property, you will pay 3% of the total cost to the government.

Totally, I have 8 apartments/properties for now in Cyprus, only one is registered under my name while others

There are 3 types of properties in North Cyprus based on the title. One is called Turkish title (the best one, which is the original land belonging to the Cypriot before the 1979 war that separated Cyprus. This one is superb and worth higher, so I decided to go for this), another two are called an exchange title, meaning were exchanged lands after the war (some feel when Cyprus rejoin, the original owner may want to retake the land, hmmm I doubt that anyway...so this can be cheaper).

I hope I answered your question.....its long epistle read when you feel like.

Best wishes!