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Georgia

Cheap and easy to enter. Nothing about it is easy to use afterwards.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: work after study
Tuition
~$830/yr
Median international bachelor sticker price across the institutions we could find figures for. Medicine, the largest international programme here, sits at the top of the band. No primary fee schedule was reachable, so treat the figure as a band rather than a price.
Living
~$700/mo
Single student, all in. 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
Outside the global tables
Research impact 18th percentile globally — median of 2 ranked universities (CWTS Leiden Open Edition 2025). Research output, not teaching quality; it informs the band, it does not set the score.
Safety
Moderate
The weakest safety figure on this site

More is being checked.

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~$830/yr

Two state universities publish the same number and neither charges foreigners differently. Tbilisi State University states one rate for every programme it runs, 1,125 GEL a semester, so 2,250 GEL a year. Ilia State University publishes 2,250 GEL a year for its bachelor's degrees, English-taught programmes for international students included, before the scholarships of up to 50% it offers them. Recorded at 2,250 GEL a year. Read this with what it excludes: Georgia's international student intake is dominated by medicine, and the private medical universities charge foreign students USD 5,000 to 8,000 a year — the figure the previous entry appears to have been. Medicine is outside this metric by the same rule that removes it everywhere else, so an ordinary bachelor's degree here really does cost about 830 dollars a year.

Median international bachelor sticker price across the institutions we could find figures for. Medicine, the largest international programme here, sits at the top of the band. No primary fee schedule was reachable, so treat the figure as a band rather than a price.

Confidence
printed in the source
Last checked
2026-09
Living~$700/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 (0.395 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.

Single student, all in. 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
EducationOutside the global tables

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-1), degree band "Recognition is a live risk": The largest international programme is medicine, whose worth depends on a destination regulator recognising it. Recognition is a live risk rather than a formality.

Research impact 18th percentile globally — median of 2 ranked universities (CWTS Leiden Open Edition 2025). Research output, not teaching quality; it informs the band, it does not set the score.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Work after studyNo data yet

No source recorded.

We found no post-study work route for foreign graduates, and since 1 March 2026 working in Georgia requires a separate work permit. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so this is left unknown rather than scored low

Confidence
no figure
SafetyModerate

Global Peace Index 2026: rank 94 of 163, score 2.066. Converted by the Pathoff GPI formula (GPI in lib/scoring.ts)

The weakest safety figure on this site

Confidence
made by us from the source

What it is like here

Georgian universities are inexpensive and admit foreign students readily, which is why the medical faculties in particular have a large international intake. Two things keep the score down and one of them is a hole rather than a judgement: the institutions sit outside the global rankings, and we could not establish what a foreign graduate is actually entitled to do here afterwards, particularly now that working requires a separate permit.

How the process works

1

Apply directly to the university

Admission is generally straightforward for international applicants.

Timing not confirmed
2

Check the degree is recognised where you intend to practise

This matters most for medicine, where recognition is decided by the destination country's regulator, not by Georgia.

Timing not confirmed

Where students go

Tbilisi
Where the universities with international intakes are

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 2026-09-03.

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