Student Cost Calculator
Tuition plus living costs for study-abroad cities.
Planning only — not legal, tax, or immigration advice. Confirm on official portals.
Student Cost Calculator is a free SetTern planning tool. Tuition plus living costs for study-abroad cities. Tuition from SetTern university entities (2026 catalog) — verify on each university site. Sources are cited on the page — confirm details on the official portals linked.
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$6,042/mo
$72,500/yr total · London
- Rent (1br catalog): $1,900/mo ($22,800/yr)
- Utilities (mid): $175/mo ($2,100/yr)
- Groceries (mid): $350/mo ($4,200/yr)
- Transport (mid): $215/mo ($2,580/yr)
- Dining out (mid): $335/mo ($4,020/yr)
- Tuition / 12 (median of 3 catalog unis): $3,067/mo ($36,804/yr)
Monthly living line items from the cited city catalog, plus median catalog tuition ÷ 12 when universities exist in that city.
- Imperial College London — $38,200/yr (verified 2026-07-16)
- University College London — $36,800/yr (verified 2026-07-16)
- King's College London — $32,100/yr (verified 2026-07-16)
Planning composition from cited city catalog bands + median catalog tuition — not visa funds proof and not each university's official fees page.
Numbeo Cost of Living Index 2025 · Methodology
Planning only — not legal, tax, or immigration advice. Confirm on official portals.
Verified official sources
- SetTern methodologysettern.io — How we cite costs, visas, and tool limits — not legal advice.
- SetTern editorial policysettern.io — E-E-A-T, fact verification, and update cadence.
- SetTern universities datasetsettern.io — Tuition bands paired with city living costs.
Common questions
- Is Student Cost Calculator legal or immigration advice?
- No. SetTern tools screen cited government and catalog data for planning only. Confirm eligibility, fees, and deadlines on the official portals linked on this page.
- Where does tuition come from?
- Median tuition from universities in the selected city's SetTern catalog (2026 fields). Always confirm on each university's official fees page.
- Why not use a tuition multiplier on living costs?
- We pair cited university tuition entities with city living midpoints — not an invented avg×4 heuristic.