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Studying in Portugal

universities
9
courses
150
English-taught
31

StudyPath lists 9 universities in Portugal and 150 courses between them, 31 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$2,901 a year, at UÉvora. 9 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-10-01.

Filter these 9 universitiesAll 150 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

18 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:

UAlg publishes a RANGE for international students, not a figure: for first-cycle degrees, students covered by the International Student Statute pay "between 3,500 and 4,500 Euros", or "between 1,500 and 4,500 Euros" if they are from a CPLP (Portuguese-speaking) country or Latin America, against 697,00 € for a domestic or EU student. Payable in up to 10…

“Students covered by the International Student Statute: between 3,500 and 4,500 Euros and between 1,500 and 4,500 Euros (CPLP - Community of Portuguese Language Countries and Latin America) , which can be paid up to a maximum of 10 monthly fees.”

UAlg · read from Tuition and Fees — University of Algarve. 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$2,901a year

UÉvora

Dearest

US$20,886a year

ULisboa

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.

  • UAlgFaro€84.08–€160per month
  • UCCoimbra€89.12–€320per month
  • NOVA LisbonLisbon€91per month
  • UAAveiro€91.44–€180per month
  • IscteLisbon€91.44per month
  • UMinhoBraga€131–€183per month

How Portugal 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.

 PortugalAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$2,900at UÉvora28th 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$1,200at UAlg31st lowest of 66 countriesFree (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$12,80012th 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.

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

Universities in Portugal

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