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Jordan

The Arab world comes here to study medicine — and nobody will tell you the price.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
45.2% 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
Trusted across the Arab world
Research impact 54th percentile globally — median of 7 ranked universities (CWTS Leiden Open Edition 2025). Research output, not teaching quality; it informs the band, it does not set the score.
Work after study
A closed professions list, and an employer
Safety
1.913 · 68th of 163
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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TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. At tier 1 the national Study in Jordan portal publishes only a JOD 35 application fee; at tier 2 the University of Jordan’s programme-fees page rejects automated requests and the German Jordanian University publishes its international credit-hour fees as PDFs whose text could not be extracted by any means we tried; at tier 3 the aggregators disagree by an order of magnitude, quoting both "$100 to $850 per credit hour" and "from $1,000 a year". See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living45.2% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 0.3212 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 0.7100 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.452, 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
EducationTrusted across the Arab world

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-1), degree band "Recognised within a bloc": Jordanian degrees are accepted throughout the Arab world without explanation and its medical and engineering faculties are the region’s reference; teaching is largely in English. Mid-band because outside that bloc the qualification is assessed rather than assumed.

Research impact 54th percentile globally — median of 7 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 studyA closed professions list, and an employer

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-2), degree outcome band "A route you cannot plan around": Graduation confers no period to stay, work permits are employer-sponsored, and Jordan reserves a long list of professions for Jordanians in a labour market already carrying high graduate unemployment. Above the floor because permits are issued and the restricted list is published.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.913 · 68th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.913, ranked 68 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

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

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Jordan is the education hub of the Levant: its universities take students from across the Arab world, teach medicine and engineering to a standard the region trusts, and run much of it in English. What they will not do is publish a number. Every route we tried ended at a contact form or a PDF that would not open, so this page carries no fee.

How the process works

1

Apply through the national portal

Study in Jordan routes international applications and charges JOD 35 to apply.

⏱ 3–6 months
2

Get the fee in writing before you commit

Nothing published tells you what an international student pays.

Timing not confirmed
3

Student residence permit after arrival

Issued on enrolment and renewed annually.

⏱ 1–3 months

Where students go

Amman
The main universities, the teaching hospitals and the employers
Irbid
The science and technology university, cheaper and quieter

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.