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Bangladesh

Technical training built around the garment industry, and priced for Bangladeshis.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
28.5% 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 access
The rules exist to keep these jobs local
Safety
2.226 · 117th of 163
A hundred-and-seventeenth of 163, fourth in South Asia, and slightly improved on the previous edition

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

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TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. At tier 1 the technical education board publishes course lists and examination charges but no rate for foreign trainees; at tier 2 no polytechnic or technical training centre publishes an international rate; at tier 3 nothing usable is in circulation. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living28.5% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 32.9905 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 115.6037 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.285, 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": Large, well-organised training for the garment and light-engineering sectors. No institution here is a name outside the country.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessThe rules exist to keep these jobs local

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. Work permits are approved against local-to-foreign staffing ratios, and the technician and trade roles a vocational qualification leads to are the ones those ratios are written to protect.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety2.226 · 117th of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 2.226, ranked 117 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

A hundred-and-seventeenth of 163, fourth in South Asia, and slightly improved on the previous edition

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Bangladesh trains at scale for the industry it actually has — garments, textiles and increasingly light engineering — and the training centres are a serious national undertaking. They are also entirely domestic: nothing is published for a foreign trainee, and the work rules that follow are the ones designed to protect exactly these jobs.

How the process works

1

Ask the centre whether it admits foreigners

Nothing published addresses the question, in either direction.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Dhaka / Gazipur
The garment belt and the training centres inside it

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 Bangladesh by Wasiul Bahar, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.