Studying in Saudi Arabia

universities: 6
courses: 85
tuition-free: 21
English-taught: 80
scholarships: 1

StudyPath lists 6 universities in Saudi Arabia and 85 courses between them, 80 of which are taught in English. 21 of those courses charge no tuition at all — a published fee of zero, not an estimate and not a scholarship. 3 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-26.

Filter these 6 universities All 85 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

16 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:

RESIDENTS OF SAUDI ARABIA ONLY: KAU's "Admission of Non-Saudis with a Financial Fee" bachelor's track is for non-Saudi students already resident in the Kingdom (e.g. on a family/dependent iqama), not for applicants applying from abroad, and it is separate from KAU's funded international scholarship track. For the Faculty of Economics and Administration the…

“الاقتصاد والإدارة: التخصصات العلمية 20 ألف ريال التخصصات النظرية 10 ألف ريال”

KAU · read from دليل القبول 1446هـ للبرامج المتاحة لقبول غير السعوديين (بمقابل مالي) — King Abdulaziz University, Deanship of Admission and Registration. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

If you do pay, this is the range

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest that charges

US$8,000a year

KAU

Dearest

US$32,877a year

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How Saudi Arabia 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.

	Saudi Arabia	Among countries	Range across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything	~US$8,000at KAU	53rd lowest of 64 countries	~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students	21	6th 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 KFUPM	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 Saudi Arabia

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