Studying in Austria
- universities
- 3
- courses
- 52
- English-taught
- 24
- scholarships
- 1
StudyPath lists 3 universities in Austria and 52 courses between them, 24 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$1,686 a year, at TU Wien. 3 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-08-18.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
15 courses here, across 2 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:
The single most valuable thing on TU Graz’s fee page for a cost-conscious applicant is the General Tuition Fee Waiver quoted here: nationals of 46 named countries pay no tuition whatsoever for the whole degree, leaving only the compulsory Austrian Student Union (ÖH) fee of EUR 26.20 per semester — about EUR 52 a year, which would make TU Graz cheaper than…
“General Tuition Fee Waiver Non- EU nationals of the following countries are exempt from paying tuition fees for the entire duration of their studies: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic…”
TU Graz · read from Tuition Fees and the Austrian Student Union Fee | TU Graz. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.
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 Austria 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.
| Austria | Among countries | Range across countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything | ~US$1,700at TU Wien | 16th lowest of 64 countries | ~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong) |
| Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students | None | 7 countries have some | 931 in Germany at most |
| Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site | ~US$2,800at TU Graz | 47th lowest of 66 countries | Free (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$9,800 | 5th 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.
Universities in Austria
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.