Student cost of living for Melbourne
Student cost of living calculator prefilled with cited Melbourne cost bands. Tuition plus living costs for study-abroad cities.
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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.
Cited Melbourne cost context
These planning bands come from the SetTern city catalog for Melbourne, Australia. The calculator below is prefilled from them — edit any line to match your own quote.
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$5,018/mo
$60,220/yr total · Melbourne
- Rent (1br catalog): $1,700/mo ($20,400/yr)
- Utilities (mid): $170/mo ($2,040/yr)
- Groceries (mid): $325/mo ($3,900/yr)
- Transport (mid): $130/mo ($1,560/yr)
- Dining out (mid): $310/mo ($3,720/yr)
- Tuition / 12 (median of 2 catalog unis): $2,383/mo ($28,596/yr)
Monthly living line items from the cited city catalog, plus median catalog tuition ÷ 12 when universities exist in that city.
- University of Melbourne — $29,800/yr (verified 2026-07-16)
- Monash University — $27,400/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.
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Verified official sources
- SetTern methodologysettern.io — How we cite costs, visas, and tool limits — not legal advice.
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- 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.