Tuition Fees at the World’s Top Universities

Tuition Fees at the World’s Top Universities

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Danny Byrne investigates increases in tuition fees for undergraduate degrees at the world’s top universities.

Getting a degree from one of the world’s highest ranking universities can now cost up to US$182,000. That’s the ticket price for a four-year undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, ranked 9th in the world in the QS World University Rankings® 2013/2014. At US$45,324 per year, Chicago is the most expensive university in the global top ten – but not by much.

Yale University comes second at $43,100, while Stanford University clocks in at $42,690. Tuition fees at MIT, the world’s current number one, stand at $36,000 per year, with Harvard charging a round $40,000.

These figures reflect a significant increase in the cost of higher education around the world since the financial crisis. Average annual tuition fees in the global top ten now stand at a record high of around US$31,000, a steep rise compared to the 2007/8 figure of around US$18,464.

The following table lists annual tuition fees for domestic undergraduate students at the world's ten top universities. It excludes financial aid and additional costs such as rent, food and textbooks.

Annual undergraduate tuition fees at the world’s top universities

University/Tuition fees (US [$])

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / $36,000

Harvard University / $38,891

University of Cambridge / $14,000

University College London (UCL) / $14,000

Imperial College London / $14,000

University of Oxford / $14,000

Stanford University / $42,690

Yale University / $43,100

University of Chicago / $45,324

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) / $39,990

Princeton University / $40,170.