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Student cities: what a month costs

Living costs for students in 18 cities, from each city’s universities or official bodies, with the universities we list there.

By the Studies Multiverse team · checked 26 September 2026 against each official page · how we check

What a student month costs in the cities students choose most, as published by a university or official body in that city. We only show figures someone official has published; where none exists we say so.

London
United KingdomGBP 102 a week, not counting rentUCL, for 2026 to 2027Manchester
United KingdomGBP 13,685 a yearUniversity of ManchesterDublin
IrelandEUR 19,937 to 29,050 a yearTrinity College DublinMunich
GermanyEUR 1,500 a monthLMU MunichParis
FranceEUR 1,000 to 1,400 a monthUniversité Paris-Est CréteilAmsterdam
NetherlandsEUR 1,200 to 1,800 a monthAmsterdam University of Applied SciencesMadrid
SpainEUR 600 to 1,200 a monthUniversidad Carlos III de MadridBarcelona
SpainEUR 1,300 to 1,500 a monthUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaVienna
AustriaEUR 1,000 to 1,500 a monthBOKU UniversityWarsaw
PolandPLN 1,600 to 2,500 a monthUniversity of WarsawBudapest
HungaryRent: HUF 220,000 to 250,000 a monthELTEToronto
CanadaRent: CAD 1,220 to 2,700 a monthUniversity of TorontoSydney
AustraliaRent: AUD 980 to 3,500 a monthUniversity of SydneyMelbourne
AustraliaRent: AUD 475 a weekUniversity of MelbourneTokyo
JapanJPY 110,000 to 140,000 a monthTokyo University of Foreign StudiesSeoul
South KoreaKRW 750,000 to 1,000,000 a monthStudy in Korea (government)Nicosia
CyprusNo official total publishedAthens
GreeceNo official total published

Reading these figures

Each figure is the estimate one university or official body publishes for its own students, so they are not built the same way: some include rent, some do not, some are a month and some a year. Open a city for the full wording and the source. Rent is the part that moves fastest; for what a whole year costs in a country, including tuition and the visa, use what a year costs.

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