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Off the beaten path.

The best places to study or move abroad aren't the obvious ones.

You have heard of four. We cover 52.

We put the same questions to every country: what it costs, what you get, whether you can stay. Every answer carries the source it came from. We do not add them up, because there is no honest way to.

Why are you going?

Fifty-two countries, coloured by one thing at a time

Fifty-two countries, coloured by one thing at a timeArgentinaArmeniaAustraliaBangladeshBotswanaCambodiaCanadaChileCosta RicaCroatiaCzechiaDominican RepublicEstoniaFranceGeorgiaGermanyIndiaIndonesiaIrelandItalyJapanJordanKazakhstanLithuaniaMalaysiaMauritiusMexicoMoroccoNamibiaNepalNetherlandsOmanPanamaPhilippinesPolandPortugalRomaniaRwandaSloveniaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSwitzerlandThailandTunisiaTürkiyeUnited Arab EmiratesUKUruguayUSAUzbekistanVietnam
Colour by
University: tuition
  • ≤ $1,000
  • $1,000–$3,000
  • $3,000–$8,000
  • $8,000–$20,000
  • > $20,000
  • No figure (7)
  • Not covered yet

Grey is not a low band. These are countries we cover and have no figure for on this axis — not missing because they are expensive, missing because we could not find one.

The map needs a wider screen than this one. The same figures are below, and the four questions will narrow them faster than a map would.

> $20,000AustraliaCanadaIrelandUKUnited Arab EmiratesUSA
$8,000–$20,000ArmeniaKazakhstanNetherlandsSouth Africa
$3,000–$8,000BotswanaCambodiaChileCroatiaCzechiaEstoniaFranceIndiaIndonesiaJapanLithuaniaMalaysiaMoroccoPanamaPolandPortugalRwandaSloveniaSouth KoreaThailandTürkiye
$1,000–$3,000BangladeshCosta RicaItalyNamibiaPhilippinesRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandTunisiaUzbekistanVietnam
≤ $1,000GeorgiaGermanyUruguay
No figure (7)ArgentinaDominican RepublicJordanMauritiusMexicoNepalOman

What the data says

Two questions put to the data rather than to us. Both are asked again every time the site is built, so they move when the figures move.

Recognised degrees, cheapest first

Every country here clears our “internationally recognised” band, so cheap is not the whole of it. Ordered by the annual fee, which is the only thing being compared.

  1. Germany$0 mostly; $3.2–6.5k/yr in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberga year
  2. Italy~$1.6–4.3k/yrIn progress
  3. Switzerland~$1.1–5k/yrIn progress
  4. France~$3.1k/yrIn progress
  5. Japan~$3.5–7.1k/yra year

Where a craft has a name

Only where the industry names the place itself — the top band of our field-reputation rubric. Today three countries clear it.

  1. Switzerland88In progress
  2. France86In progress
  3. Germany86field reputation, of 100

Browse by reason

Early study조기유학 · K–12All 52 countriesUniversity일반유학 · 대학·대학원All 52 countriesSpecial & vocational특수유학 · 요리·예술All 52 countriesMove & retire이민 · 노후이민All 52 countries

Lists open alphabetically and you choose what to compare on. Every figure carries its source and how confident we are in it, visible on hover. Nothing here is folded into a single number, and nothing here replaces the official source for a visa or a school.