Studying in Mexico
- universities
- 2
- courses
- 35
- tuition-free
- 23
- English-taught
- 0
StudyPath lists 2 universities in Mexico and 35 courses between them. 23 of those courses charge no tuition at all — a published fee of zero, not an estimate and not a scholarship. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-08-16.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
35 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:
UNAM charges no tuition and no enrolment fee for its undergraduate degrees. Its own official 2026 undergraduate admission instructions, published by the Dirección General de Administración Escolar (DGAE), state plainly that the University charges neither tuition (colegiaturas) nor enrolment (inscripción) and that all of these procedures are free. Foreign…
“para tu ingreso y mucho menos a realizar pagos, la UNAM no cobra ni colegiaturas ni inscripción, todos estos trámites son gratuitos.”
UNAM · read from Instructivo del Concurso de Selección Ingreso a Licenciatura 2026 (DGAE-UNAM). Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.
How Mexico 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.
| Mexico | Among countries | Range across countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students | 23 | 5th most of 7 countries | 931 in Germany at most |
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 Mexico
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.