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Armenia

Real trades in a small country, priced for the people who live in it.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
40.1% 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.
Field reputation
Domestic
Industry accessRecently changed
An employer, a quota, and a small labour market
Safety
1.825 · 51st of 163
Fifty-first globally and improved on the previous edition, which the index attributes to the regional normalisation now under way

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.

TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. At tier 1 the ministry publishes no fee schedule for foreign vocational students; at tier 2 no college publishes an international rate; at tier 3 nothing usable is in circulation. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living40.1% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 157.5956 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 392.7296 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.401, 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
Field reputationDomestic

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Locally useful only": Colleges train capably for the Armenian labour market. Nothing here is a name to industry abroad.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessAn employer, a quota, and a small labour market

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route you cannot plan around": Judged on its own and it lands below the degree route, because the trades a college qualification leads to are the ones a small domestic labour market fills first, and the new quotas apply to the work category as well.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
Changed recently — older guidance elsewhere is out of date
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.825 · 51st of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.825, ranked 51 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

Fifty-first globally and improved on the previous edition, which the index attributes to the regional normalisation now under way

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Armenia’s colleges train for construction, engineering and increasingly software, and the IT sector around them is the fastest-growing thing in the country. None of it is sold abroad: no international rate is published, and the qualification is not one an employer outside the region would recognise.

How the process works

1

Ask the college for a rate in writing

Nothing published names a price for a foreign trainee.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Yerevan
The colleges, and the software companies hiring from them

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 Armenia by Սէրուժ Ուրիշեան (Serouj Ourishian), licensed CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.