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Studying in Malaysia

universities
23
courses
380
English-taught
380
scholarships
12

StudyPath lists 23 universities in Malaysia and 380 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$1,721 a year, at UTeM. 23 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-30.

Filter these 23 universitiesAll 380 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

10 courses here, across 5 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:

TAR UMT's International Student Undergraduate Fees Guide for Year 2026 prices the whole Faculty of Computing and Information Technology as one band — Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Security, Interactive Software Technology and Management Mathematics with Computing all share it.…

“Faculty of Computing and Information Technology Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, 44,500 – 44,600/ 74,000 – 76,000/ Information Systems, Information Technology, Information…”

TAR UMT · read from International Student Undergraduate Fees Guide Year 2026 — TAR UMT. 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$1,721a year

UTeM

Dearest

US$34,394a year

NUMed Malaysia

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.

  • USMPenangMYR 120–MYR 240per month
  • MMUCyberjayaMYR 210–MYR 270per month
  • TAR UMTKuala LumpurMYR 267per month
  • UPMSerdangMYR 270–MYR 600per month
  • INTINilaiMYR 330–MYR 1,110per month
  • UoSMIskandar Puteri, JohorMYR 340–MYR 1,090per month

How Malaysia 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.

 MalaysiaAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$1,700at UTeM17th 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$270at UniKL10th lowest of 66 countriesFree (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.

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

Universities in Malaysia

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