Studying in South Korea
- universities
- 2
- courses
- 40
- English-taught
- 20
StudyPath lists 2 universities in South Korea and 40 courses between them, 20 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$3,637 a year, at SNU. 2 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-08-31.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
33 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:
KAIST publishes standard undergraduate tuition of KRW 3,433,000 per semester (KRW 6,866,000/year), but this figure carries no academic year on the page it is published on, so it cannot be stored as a dated fee. Almost every admitted international undergraduate automatically receives the KAIST Scholarship — there is no separate application, selection happens…
“Subsidies Full tuition fee: tuition exemption for 8 semesters Living expenses: 350,000 KRW per month Medical Health insurance Requirement We offer KAIST Scholarships to admitted students Students must maintain GPA over 2.7 out of 4.3 at KAIST after their freshman year Application Period Same as…”
KAIST · read from KAIST Scholarship | KAIST Admissions. 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.
How South Korea 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.
| South Korea | Among countries | Range across countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything | ~US$3,600at SNU | 36th lowest of 64 countries | ~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong) |
| Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international students | None | 7 countries have some | 931 in Germany at most |
| Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site | ~US$2,700at SNU | 46th 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 South Korea
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.