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Uruguay

Trades that serve a country of three million, and no published price for outsiders.

4/5
ingredients confirmed
Still unknown: tuition
Living
72.9% 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
Residence first, then the trade
Safety
1.754 · 43rd of 163
First in South America on the index by a clear margin, and forty-third globally

More is being checked.

Where these figures came from

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TuitionNo data yet

No figure recorded. No published fee schedule for a Uruguayan technical or specialist training institution charging foreign students could be found at tier 1 or tier 2, and no usable tier 3 figure was available either. See the Pathoff method, section 14-5.

Confidence
no figure
Living72.9% of US prices

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 29.2982 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 40.2128 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.729, 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": Training serves the Uruguayan and regional labour market competently. No institution here is a name the wider industry knows.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Industry accessResidence first, then the trade

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 just below the degree route, because a vocational qualification gives no additional standing in the residence process and the trades are small enough that a job offer is the harder half.

Confidence
made by us from the source
Rule
No change known to us
Last checked
2026-09
Safety1.754 · 43rd of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.754, ranked 43 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

First in South America on the index by a clear margin, and forty-third globally

Confidence
printed in the source

What it is like here

Uruguay trains capably for its own economy — agriculture, meat, logistics, software services — and the technical institutes are free the way the university is. What does not exist is an internationally known specialist sector or a published rate for foreign students, and as with a degree, staying afterwards is a question of residence rather than of the qualification.

How the process works

1

Confirm the institution admits foreign students

The technical system is built around Uruguayan learners and does not publish foreign rates.

Timing not confirmed

Where the training is

Montevideo
Where the technical institutes and their employers 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 2026-09-04.

Photograph of Uruguay by Eduardo Ruggieri, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.