Javid is from Faryab province in northwestern Afghanistan. He studies Computer Science and Engineering at Walchand College of Engineering in Sangli, Maharashtra.

Walchand College was established in 1947 , nearly 80 years before Javid arrived. He walks through a campus that has been producing engineers since before his parents were born. That sense of history is the first thing he mentions when he describes where he studies.

What Studying CSE at Walchand Actually Looks Like

Walchand College of Engineering is an established institution in Sangli city in southern Maharashtra. The campus carries the quality of a place that has been doing this for a long time. The laboratories have the equipment that engineering courses actually require. The faculty have been teaching their subjects for years. The student body comes from different regions of India and from other countries, including Afghanistan.

Computer Science and Engineering at Walchand covers what every serious CSE program covers: algorithms and data structures, programming languages, operating systems, computer networks, database systems, software engineering, and increasingly the foundations of artificial intelligence. The program is demanding and technical. Javid describes his days as focused , lectures, lab sessions, problem sets, and the kind of concentrated study that requires a real environment to sit still in.

Sangli gives him that environment. It is a city large enough to have everything a student needs , food, transport, markets, connectivity , but small enough that you can actually focus. Not the overwhelming pace of Mumbai or Pune. A city where the college is a significant presence and the students are part of the community rather than lost in it.

The 1947 Detail and Why It Matters

Walchand College of Engineering was founded in 1947 by Walchand Hirachand, one of India's pioneering industrialists. The college opened in the same year India achieved independence. In the decades since, it has graduated engineers who have contributed to India's technology, infrastructure, and industrial development.

For Afghan students weighing where to study, institutional depth matters. A college with nearly 80 years of graduates behind it has learned how to run an engineering program. The curriculum has been refined. The faculty have accumulated experience. The student support systems have been worked out over time rather than in the first few years of operation. There is a difference between studying at a place like Walchand and studying at an institution still in its first decade. Javid chose the depth.

Computer Science and Engineering , Why It Matters for Afghanistan

Computer Science and Engineering is one of the most in-demand specialisations across every sector and every region. Afghanistan is no exception. As the country's digital infrastructure develops, as government services expand toward digital platforms, as the banking and communications sectors grow, the need for engineers who understand how software systems are built, how they are made reliable, and how they are secured becomes more significant every year.

CSE is not simply a coding course. It is the discipline that answers how software systems actually work at depth , the algorithms that make them efficient, the architectures that make them reliable at scale, the networks that make them connected, the security frameworks that make them trustworthy. Javid is building that foundation. When he returns to Afghanistan, the skills he brings back are specific, deep, and directly applicable.

How He Found Walchand on fn.mahacet.org

Javid found Walchand College of Engineering by searching fn.mahacet.org , the Government of Maharashtra's official Foreign Candidate Registration Portal, operated by the State Common Entrance Test Cell, Government of Maharashtra. The portal covers programs across 6,000+ institutions in Maharashtra. He searched for Computer Science and Engineering, read through the available colleges, and chose Walchand based on what he found.

He applied directly through the portal. His 12th grade marks in Physics and Mathematics were the academic basis. No entrance exam was required for international students. No agent was involved. The offer letter came through the portal and he arrived in Sangli for the new semester.

He says Walchand was not a college he had heard of before he searched the portal. That is exactly the point. fn.mahacet.org shows you what is there , all of it , not just the names that travel far. Search properly and the right college might not be the first one you recognise.

His Message to Afghan Students Thinking About Engineering

Javid's message is straightforward. Go to fn.mahacet.org. Search your specialisation. Read through the results , not just the first names, all of them. Maharashtra has 6,000+ institutions listed on one government portal, spread across the entire state, from Mumbai and Pune to Nagpur, Sangli, Kolhapur, and dozens of other cities and towns. Every program is government-verified. The search filters make it simple to narrow to exactly what you want.

Walchand College of Engineering in Sangli was not a name Javid knew before he searched. Now it is where he walks every morning into a campus that has been producing engineers since 1947. That is what searching properly found him. fn.mahacet.org.

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Information sourced from fn.mahacet.org, the official Government of Maharashtra Foreign Candidate Registration Portal. MHT-CET exemption confirmed per MHT-CET 2026 Information Brochure, Section 4, Point 4.