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Studying in Australia

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701
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StudyPath lists 40 universities in Australia and 701 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$18,636 a year, at SCU. 39 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-10-01.

Filter these 40 universitiesAll 701 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

296 courses here, across 25 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

UNSW publishes an indicative first-year fee based on an estimated average. It covers tuition only — UNSW states outright that other fees and charges are not included in the figure.

“The indicative fees listed here are based on an estimated average and are for tuition only - other fees and charges are not included.”

UNSW · read from Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Software) | UNSW Sydney. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$18,636a year

SCU

Dearest

US$77,625a year

Adelaide

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

How Australia compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 AustraliaAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$18,600at SCU61st lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$3,200at UniSC50th lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)
Living costs a student visa requires you to showfor a year, the immigration authority's own figure~US$21,30018th lowest of 19 countries~US$2,200 (South Africa) to ~US$25,900 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Student accommodation in Australia: every university's published rent →

Universities in Australia

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.