Studying in Brazil
- universities
- 5
- courses
- 109
- tuition-free
- 105
- English-taught
- 5
StudyPath lists 5 universities in Brazil and 109 courses between them, 5 of which are taught in English. 105 of those courses charge no tuition at all — a published fee of zero, not an estimate and not a scholarship. 5 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-04.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
48 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:
USP charges no tuition. Its own International Office states that public higher education institutions in Brazil are tuition free for everyone, and that a degree at a USP faculty or institute can be earned completely free of charge — the same for Brazilian and foreign students, with no separate international rate. Degree-seeking foreign applicants are…
“In Brazil, public highier education institutions are tuition free for everyone. You can earn undergraduate, master’s or doctoral degrees or persue research at one of the USP faculties and institutes completely free of charge.”
USP · read from Incoming | USP International Office. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.
Where the tuition-free degrees are
Ranked by how many degrees each university publishes at a fee of zero — not by reputation. Several of these are technical universities no league table mentions.
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 Brazil 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.
| Brazil | Among countries | Range across countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students | 105 | 3rd most of 7 countries | 931 in Germany at most |
| Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site | Freeat Unicamp | Lowest of 66 countries | Free (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (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 Brazil
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.