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Studying in the United States

universities
95
courses
1,522
English-taught
1,522
scholarships
10

StudyPath lists 95 universities in the United States and 1,522 courses between them. The cheapest verified fee is about US$2,440 a year, at UoPeople. 94 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-30.

Filter these 95 universitiesAll 1,522 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

304 courses here, across 30 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:

Please note, in general, international undergraduate students are not eligible for financial aid, including scholarships.

“Please note, in general, international undergraduate students are not eligible for financial aid, including scholarships.”

Purdue · read from Scholarships | Office of Admissions | Purdue University. 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$2,440a year

UoPeople

Dearest

US$93,008a year

Penn

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.

  • PurdueWest LafayetteUS$2,916–US$16,600per year
  • Michigan StateEast LansingUS$4,538–US$5,604per year
  • Iowa StateAmesUS$5,793–US$7,385per year
  • UWSeattleUS$6,624–US$10,818per year
  • UtahSalt Lake CityUS$6,636–US$10,185per year
  • USFTampaUS$6,640–US$12,376per year

How the United States 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.

 United StatesAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$2,400at UoPeople25th 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$2,900at Purdue49th 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.

Student accommodation in the United States: every university's published rent →

Universities in the United States

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