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Uzbekistan

Thirty-seventh for peace, at a quarter of American prices.

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Tuition
~$21.7k/yr
The previous figure, $27,000, was a 2023-2024 rate carried without a date. The city spans roughly UZS 100m to 335m a year at secondary, so a single school is a position inside a wide range rather than a summary of it.
Living
26.7% of US prices
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level 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
Mid
Guardian visa
A parent needs work or a company
Safety
1.726 · 37th of 163
Thirty-seventh globally and second in its region behind Bulgaria — well above every other Central Asian state

Where these figures came from

One row per ingredient. Open any of them for the source, how far we trust it, and when we last checked.

Tuition~$21.7k/yr

Tashkent has at least four international schools and exactly one publishes its fees on its own site. CIS International School gives a full year-group table for 2025/26, and Years 7–9 is the figure above. The rest could not be made into a sample. Tashkent International School — whose figures this page used to carry — now answers with an email address for its finance officer; the $26,380 it used to show for grades 6–10 comes from a US State Department fact sheet quoting the school and is a 2023-2024 rate. The British School of Tashkent publishes only its one-off charges on the page, an assessment fee of UZS 700,000 and a development contribution of UZS 62,181,800, and puts the tuition table in a PDF behind a link. Tashkent Ulugbek International School appears only in fee surveys. So this is one school, not the middle of a city, and the Pathoff method, section 12-4-1 says to record what was found and say so rather than pretend to a sample.

The previous figure, $27,000, was a 2023-2024 rate carried without a date. The city spans roughly UZS 100m to 335m a year at secondary, so a single school is a position inside a wide range rather than a summary of it.

WhatAs publishedPer year, USD
CIS International School Tashkent — Years 7–92025/26, tuition only; Years 10–11 are UZS 306,693,000 and sixth form UZS 323,001,000274,063,500 UZSa year$21,650

One figure, so the number above is that figure rather than the middle of anything.

Confidence
printed in the source
Last checked
2026-09
Living26.7% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 3372.9898 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 12652.2868 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.267, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level 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
EducationMid

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 work or a company

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-1), early outcome band "A guardian must be arranged": No parental status exists and no income or retirement category is published; a parent holds a work visa, a business basis, or the IT visa granted to founders. At the top of the band because those routes are quick and cheap by regional standards — the IT visa is reported to take days — but none of them is about being a parent.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.726 · 37th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.726, ranked 37 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Thirty-seventh globally and second in its region behind Bulgaria — well above every other Central Asian state

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Uzbekistan is the safest country in Central Asia by a distance, costs about a quarter of the United States, and has opened up faster in ten years than almost anywhere. It also has a Korean community that has been there since the 1930s. The limits for a family are the school market, which is one good school deep, and a parent’s status, which has to come from work or a business.

How the process works

1

A parent establishes a work or business basis

Employment, a registered company, or an IT Park founder’s stake.

⏱ 1–4 months
2

Apply to the international school early

There is essentially one of them, and places are limited.

⏱ 3–6 months

Where families cluster

Tashkent
The international school, the hospitals and almost all foreign residents
Samarkand
The monuments and a growing tourist economy; no international school

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 Uzbekistan by Bobyrr, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.