Where should you study — and what can anyone actually tell you?

What it costs

$19,859/yrmedian net price after grant aid, across colleges — the only country here that publishes what families actually pay

What graduates earn

$54,869/yrmedian earnings 10 years after entering, across colleges

If you're coming from overseas

346,984 studentsinternational undergraduates across these colleges (median 2% of a campus); out-of-state tuition, the closest proxy for what they pay, runs about $21,114/yr

Entry system

GPA + SAT/ACT, essays, recommendations

Typical degree

4 years

The gap: Sticker price varies enormously; net price depends heavily on family income.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

£29,439/yrmedian earnings 5 years after graduating, across universities

If you're coming from overseas

88%median share of graduates in work or further study, 15 months out

Entry system

UCAS tariff points (A-levels, BTEC, Highers, IB)

Typical degree

3 years (4 in Scotland)

The gap: Tuition fees are not open data — they sit behind a paid UCAS licence, so we can't show what any course costs.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

52 of 52CRICOS-registered, meaning legally able to enrol international students — in Australia's case, all of them

Entry system

ATAR rank

Typical degree

3 years (4 with honours)

The gap: ATAR cut-offs, fees and graduate earnings exist in Course Seeker and ComparED but are copyrighted with no open licence, so we link to them rather than reproduce them.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

686 programmesconfirmed taught in English, out of 2,943 — the strongest English-taught offering of any non-anglophone country here

Entry system

VWO/HAVO diploma or equivalent; numerus fixus on some courses

Typical degree

3 years (wo bachelor), 4 years (hbo)

The gap: Tuition and entry data sit in the Studiekeuzedatabase, which is free but requires an application whose terms would require publishing our ranking algorithm.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

S$3,911/monthmedian gross starting salary six months after graduating — published per DEGREE, the finest granularity of any country here

If you're coming from overseas

91%median employment rate six months after graduating, across degrees

Entry system

Indicative Grade Profile, set per university

Typical degree

3–4 years

The gap: No central entry requirements or fees — each university sets and publishes its own.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

14%of all tertiary students are international (48,195 people) — 8 universities in total

Entry system

NCEA rank score, set per university

Typical degree

3 years

The gap: No open tuition or entry-score data; NCEA rank scores are set course by course.

What it costs

€178 or €2,895/yrthe nationally set licence fee for 2025-26 — the first figure if you hold EU/EEA or Swiss citizenship, the second if you don't. It is a national rate rather than an institutional price, so there is no cost comparison to make BETWEEN French universities, only between passports. Universities can exempt non-EU students from the higher rate, but a 2026 decree caps how many at 30% falling to 20%

What graduates earn

€2177/momedian net monthly pay 18 months after finishing, across the 227 institutions InserSup covers — a monthly net figure, so it is not comparable with the annual gross earnings the US and UK publish

If you're coming from overseas

14,079 formationseach published with the bac mention profile of the students actually admitted — France is the only country here that tells you the grades of everyone who got a place, formation by formation, rather than a single cut-off

Entry system

Parcoursup — bac results and school record, ranked per formation

Typical degree

3 years (licence), 2 (BTS/DUT), 5 (master)

The gap: Graduate employment and pay are published per institution, not per formation, and not at all for the BTS and CPGE taught inside lycées — which is most of the 3,641 participants. So the entry data is course-level and the outcomes data is not. Nor is there any published figure for what private institutions charge.

What it costs

₩6.63m/yrmedian annual tuition at a campus institution, and the only figure here published PER FIELD OF STUDY — Korea prices humanities below engineering below medicine, so the number you actually pay depends on your subject. National universities run around half the private rate

What graduates earn

67.5%median share of graduates in work, measured from national health-insurance records rather than a survey — a headcount, not a response rate, so it is not comparable with the earnings figures other countries publish

If you're coming from overseas

5.6:1applicants per place at the median institution, rising past 30:1 at the most contested. Korea does NOT publish 수능 scores per university, so this is how contested a place is — never the marks you need

Entry system

수능 (CSAT) plus school record, through 수시 and 정시 rounds

Typical degree

4 years (2–3 at a junior college)

The gap: 수능 entrance scores are not disclosed per institution under any open licence, so no honest reach/target/safety on grades is possible. Graduate employment is published for the institution as a whole, not per department.

What it costs

€913/yrmedian public-university tuition at a standard 60-credit year — dramatically cheaper than the US or UK, but private universities don't publish theirs

What graduates earn

€32.072/yrmedian average social security contribution base 4 years after graduating — the closest official Spanish equivalent of a salary

If you're coming from overseas

10,861 programmesacross 91 universities, with a cut-off mark published for each degree — Spain is the only country here besides the US publishing cost, outcomes AND selectivity

Entry system

EvAU/PAU exam score and nota de corte, set per degree

Typical degree

4 years (grado)

The gap: Teaching is mostly in Spanish, and private-university fees are not published openly.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2,456 English-taught programmesout of 8,718 across 38 institutions — proportionally the largest English-taught offering of any non-anglophone country here, and the reason Finland is worth a look despite the language

Entry system

yhteishaku — a joint national application, scored on the matriculation exam or an entrance test

Typical degree

3 years (kandidaatti), 3.5–4 at an AMK

The gap: Tuition is free for EU/EEA and Swiss citizens; institutions must charge everyone else but set their own fees and none are published centrally, so we can show you no price. Graduate earnings sit with Statistics Finland rather than Vipunen and are not released per institution.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

43,830 completions a yearagainst 145,627 students at the eight universities, with a 15-year series (2011–2025) behind both — Denmark publishes students, entrants AND completions per institution, which is rarer than it sounds

Entry system

karaktergennemsnit from upper secondary, through kvote 1 and kvote 2

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor) plus 2 (kandidat)

The gap: These are the eight universities only. Denmark does not publish professionshøjskoler or erhvervsakademier per institution at all — a large part of its higher education is simply absent from the statistics, not from our page. No per-institution tuition or graduate earnings either.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

87,934 degrees a yearawarded across every Swedish institution — Sweden publishes what each one produces, by degree type, back to 1977, but not how many students it enrols

Entry system

antagningspoäng from upper-secondary grades or the SweSAT

Typical degree

3 years (kandidat), 5 (civilingenjör)

The gap: Sweden's per-institution enrolment table was discontinued after 2008/09 and current student statistics sit with UKÄ, which has no public API. Tuition is free for EU/EEA citizens and unpublished for everyone else, and admission points are held by UHR rather than the statistics office.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

1,308 scored programmesNorway publishes the average opptakspoeng of everyone who applied to each programme, so you can see how competitive it actually is — the national median is about 49 and the hardest degrees reach the low 60s

Entry system

opptakspoeng — upper-secondary grades plus age and subject bonuses

Typical degree

3 years (bachelor), 5 (integrated master)

The gap: Norway abolished free study for non-EEA students in 2023, but each institution sets its own fees and DBH publishes none of them — so we can show you how hard a degree is to get into, and not what it will cost you.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

24% internationalacross the institutions Statistics Canada publishes the split for — the only country here where the international share is known per institution, which matters now that study-permit caps are in force

Entry system

provincial secondary-school average; each institution sets its own bar

Typical degree

4 years (Bachelor), 2–3 (college diploma)

The gap: Statistics Canada publishes enrolment and graduates per institution, but tuition and graduate earnings only by province and field of study — so we can show you how international an institution is, and not what it costs.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

5.3M studentsacross 2,824 institutions and 5,424 campuses — one of the largest systems in the Americas, and the census counts every one

Entry system

each institution sets its own entrance exam; no national cut-off register

Typical degree

4–5 years (licenciatura)

The gap: Mexico's census gives enrolment, graduates and staff per institution, but the country publishes no per-institution tuition, entry cut-offs or graduate earnings at all — earnings exist only by field of study nationally.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

671 of roughly 3,000institutions we can list at all, and only 40 of those carry an enrolment figure. This is a community-maintained Wikidata extract, not a register — treat it as a starting point rather than a survey

Entry system

高考 (gaokao), with provincial cut-off scores

Typical degree

4 years (本科)

The gap: China's own registers — the Ministry of Education's institution list, gaokao cut-off scores, tuition schedules — carry no licence permitting republication, so none of it is here. What we show is CC0 Wikidata, which is incomplete by construction and we would rather say so than imply coverage we don't have.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

10 of 33listed institutions carry an enrolment figure. Armenia is small enough that the well-known universities are covered, but this is a Wikidata extract rather than a national register and the long tail is missing

Entry system

unified national examinations, administered by the Assessment and Testing Centre

Typical degree

4 years (bachelor)

The gap: Armenia's higher education statistics are published by the Statistical Committee in aggregate, not per institution, and the accreditation body ANQA's register carries no reuse licence. There is no open source for tuition, entry scores or graduate outcomes at institution level.

What it costs

Not published as open data

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

Entry system

JEE, NEET, CUET and state exams, each publishing its own cut-offs per round

Typical degree

3 years (BA/BSc), 4 years (BTech)

The gap: India publishes no per-institution fees, cut-offs or graduate earnings under any licence, and the Ministry's own directory may not be republished without permission — which we have requested. Until then this list comes from Wikidata, which is community-maintained rather than official.

What it costs

€0 tuitionpublic universities generally charge no undergraduate tuition, including to international students — you pay only a semester contribution of a few hundred euros. Baden-Württemberg charges non-EU students, and private universities set their own fees

What graduates earn

Not published as open data

If you're coming from overseas

2,243,747+ studentsacross 371 institutions — Germany is among the largest study destinations in Europe, and the tuition position is the main reason

Entry system

Abitur or recognised equivalent; Numerus Clausus on popular subjects

Typical degree

3 years (Bachelor)

The gap: Germany publishes no institution-level fees, entry cut-offs or graduate earnings, and its federal programme database needs written permission to republish — so this is a directory built from Wikidata rather than an official register.