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Jordan

A royal culinary academy that publishes its international rate to the dinar.

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Tuition
~$7.5k/yr
Living
~$800/mo
Single student, all in — deliberately the same figure as the degree page. It is the same person living the same way; only the training differs. 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.
Field reputation
Credible across the region
Industry access
Hospitality does hire foreigners here, with a sponsor
Safety
Mid
Sixty-eighth globally and fifth in the Middle East and North Africa — a stable country in an unstable neighbourhood

More is being checked.

What we corrected here

Figures we published, and what reading the source did to them. The old ones were ours, not anyone else’s — this is our record of being wrong, kept where the figure it is about lives.

Tuition

We had the all-in total for the diplomaNow ~$7.5k/yr

It counted the compulsory charges alongside tuition and so ran about a quarter high. This metric measures the tuition line everywhere else.

Read from the source in 2026-09.

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~$7.5k/yr

The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts publishes a full breakdown for its two-year Diploma in Culinary Arts: JOD 10,650 in tuition across four semesters, JOD 13,450 including all compulsory charges, and JOD 1,065 in admission fees for international students. Recorded at the tuition line alone, JOD 5,325 a year, which is what this metric measures everywhere else; the previous figure used the all-in total and so ran about a quarter high. The dinar is pegged to the dollar.

Confidence
printed in the source
Last checked
2026-09
Living~$800/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 (0.452 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 — deliberately the same figure as the degree page. It is the same person living the same way; only the training differs. 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
Field reputationCredible across the region

Pathoff education rubric (the Pathoff method, section 9-2), special band "Regionally credible": The academy trains in English, is certified within an international hotel-school network, and places graduates across Levantine and Gulf hospitality. Mid-band: known and respected regionally, and not a name the wider industry would recognise elsewhere.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessHospitality does hire foreigners here, with a sponsor

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-3), special outcome band "A route that needs an employer": Judged on its own and it lands above the degree route, because hospitality is one of the sectors Jordan does open to foreign workers rather than reserving it. Mid-band: the permit is still employer-sponsored and annual.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
SafetyMid

Global Peace Index 2026: rank 68 of 163, score 1.913. Converted by the Pathoff GPI formula (GPI in lib/scoring.ts)

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

Confidence
made by us from the source

What it is like here

The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts in Amman is exactly the kind of institution this site is looking for and rarely finds: it trains in English for the regional hospitality industry, it is certified within a Swiss hotel-school network, and it publishes a line-by-line fee breakdown including the surcharge international students pay. The weakness is what comes after — hospitality work here still needs a sponsor.

How the process works

1

Apply directly; teaching is in English

The academy publishes its fees, including the international surcharge.

⏱ 2–4 months
2

Student residence permit

Issued on enrolment and renewed annually.

⏱ 1–3 months

Where the training is

Amman
The academy and the hotel kitchens it places into
Aqaba / Dead Sea
The resort corridor, where much of the industry hiring happens

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.