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Jordan

The region’s education hub, at half of Gulf prices.

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Tuition
~$22–26.6k/yr
Living
~$2,050/mo
Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
Education
Strong
Guardian visa
A parent needs a work, business or property basis
Safety
Mid
Sixty-eighth globally and fifth in the Middle East and North Africa — a stable country in an unstable neighbourhood

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

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Tuition~$22–26.6k/yr

Two Amman schools publish and agree. International Community Schools publishes 2025-26 tuition of US$22,019 for Years 7–9, US$24,877 for Years 10–11 and US$26,557 for Years 12–13; the American Community School, via the US Department of State’s fact sheet carrying the school’s figures, published $21,100 for grades 6–8 and $26,380 for grades 9–12 in 2023-24. Both charge a substantial one-off capital or assessment fee on top.

Confidence
printed in the source
Living~$2,050/mo

Pathoff judgement directed by evidence, not computed from it: the country’s position comes from the World Bank household consumption price level for 2024 (0.452 of the United States, CC BY 4.0 — the ICP benchmark carried forward annually by the World Bank’s own method); the US reference budget is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

Confidence
made by us from the source
EducationStrong

Pathoff judgement, no rubric yet: placed against the other countries here from general knowledge of the international-school sector. Under review — see the Pathoff method, section 9-3.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Guardian visaA parent needs a work, business or property basis

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-1), early outcome band "Partial or conditional access": No guardian status exists, but residence permits are granted on employment, business and property ownership, and a parent who has one of those can hold a permit for the whole school career with family attached. Mid-band because nothing is available on income alone.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
SafetyMid

Global Peace Index 2026: rank 68 of 163, score 1.913. Converted by the Pathoff GPI formula (GPI in lib/scoring.ts)

Sixty-eighth globally and fifth in the Middle East and North Africa — a stable country in an unstable neighbourhood

Confidence
made by us from the source

What it is like here

Amman has more good international schools than any city in the Levant, English is everywhere in the professional class, and the whole thing costs about two thirds of the UAE. Jordan is also demonstrably stable — sixty-eighth on the peace index in a neighbourhood that is not. The limit is what a parent can hold: there is no guardian route and no income category.

How the process works

1

A parent obtains a residence basis

Employment, a registered business or property ownership; there is no guardian category.

⏱ 3–6 months
2

Choose among a genuinely deep school market

Amman has IB, British and American curricula at several price points, all publishing fees.

⏱ 3–6 months

Where families cluster

Amman (Abdoun, Dabouq)
The international schools and most of the foreign community
Madaba
Quieter and cheaper, half an hour from the Amman schools

Open any ingredient above to see where its figure came from, how far we trust it and when we last checked. Nothing here is a substitute for the official source. Last reviewed 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Jordan by Diego Delso, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.