Findings from the dataset
1296 degrees that charge no tuition
Of the 11,913 courses on StudyPath, 1296 publish a tuition fee of exactly zero for international students — 10.9% of the catalogue, across 90 universities in 7 countries.
Each of those zeros was read from the university's own published page — 226 distinct pages in all, read between 2026-08-04 and 2026-10-01 — and stored with the sentence it came from. None of them is an estimate, a scholarship, or an absence of data treated as a zero.
What “no tuition” does not mean
It does not mean free. 915 of the 1296 carry a note in their own record about a mandatory semester or student-union contribution payable on top — typically a few hundred euros a term, often including a public transport pass. It is not tuition, the university does not call it tuition, and this site does not record it as tuition. You still have to pay it.
Nor does it cover living costs, which are the larger number almost everywhere. Rent alone will exceed the semester contribution many times over — see the accommodation figures universities publish, and the cost calculator.
One more distinction worth making: 1205 of these courses are free to everyone, home and international students alike — the record carries no nationality distinction at all. The remaining 91 publish a zero specifically for the audience shown here.
Where they are
| Country | Courses | Universities | Most, by university |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 931 | 68 | Uni Rostock (31), University of Bonn (29), Hamburg (28), HHU Düsseldorf (28), Paderborn University (28), FH Aachen (26) |
| Argentina | 166 | 11 | UBA (22), UNC (20), UNCUYO (17), UNRC (17), UNSL (17), UNICEN (16) |
| Brazil | 105 | 5 | UFC (35), Unicamp (24), USP (24), UFG (21), UnB (1) |
| Estonia | 36 | 3 | TalTech (16), Tartu (15), EAvA (5) |
| Mexico | 23 | 1 | UNAM (23) |
| Saudi Arabia | 21 | 1 | KFUPM (21) |
| Iceland | 14 | 1 | UI (14) |
How to check any of this
Open any course. The fee block names the audience it applies to, the academic year, and the date the figure was read, and expands to show the exact sentence on the university's own page with a link to it. If a university stops publishing a zero, the figure here changes at the next check — which is why every figure carries its date rather than a claim of being current.
The same data is published openly under CC BY 4.0 as a downloadable dataset, one row per university, each with the source URL and read-date behind its cheapest figure.