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Studying in Pakistan

universities
17
courses
233
English-taught
233
scholarships
6

StudyPath lists 17 universities in Pakistan and 233 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$279 a year, at Abasyn. 7 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-05.

Filter these 17 universitiesAll 233 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

8 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:

LUMS's need-based Financial Aid (a mix of fee waiver and interest-free loan) covers between 20% and 100% of tuition fee expenses for undergraduates who demonstrate financial need, reassessed every academic year; it is not universal or guaranteed. Separately, LUMS’s National Outreach Programme (NOP, running since 2001) gives selected high-achieving,…

“Undergraduate need based assistance covers partial to full tuition fee expenses of the Programme. The range of the amount of financial assistance is between 20% and 100%. These awards are reassessed each academic year based upon the demonstrated financial need.”

LUMS · read from Undergraduate - Financial Aid - LUMS. 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$279a year

Abasyn

Dearest

US$18,000a year

NUST

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.

  • NUSTIslamabadUS$66–US$121per month
  • SuperiorLahoreUS$200per month

How Pakistan 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.

 PakistanAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$279at Abasyn2nd 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$130at PIEAS6th 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.

Universities in Pakistan

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