Living Cost Laboratory The numbers, and the life behind them
A tool · not a table

What would a year actually cost you?

Pick the city, then the school. Every figure here traces back to a source I can name — a university's own fee page where one exists, a third-party aggregator where it doesn't. Where sources disagree, I show both numbers instead of picking one.

By Lin Hai — see how every figure here is sourced on the About page

Housing
Uses the dormitory range published on the university's own page.
Food (you fill this in — I won't guess)
Leave blank and the total below covers tuition + housing only. Every campus, every city, has a different canteen economy — I'd rather you fill this in than trust a number I made up.

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