Studying in Belgium
- universities
- 2
- courses
- 27
- English-taught
- 26
StudyPath lists 2 universities in Belgium and 27 undergraduate courses between them, 26 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$2,901 a year, at VUB. 2 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-08-31.
What the fee figure leaves out
A published fee is not what you pay
6 courses here, across 2 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:
VUB does not publish one flat annual price: the tuition fee is a fixed amount paid once per academic year plus a variable amount per credit registered, so a student taking fewer than 60 ECTS pays less than the headline figure and a student taking more pays more -- the same billing structure already documented for this university's Business Economics…
“The tuition fee consists of a fixed amount and a variable amount: the fixed amount is a fixed cost which is paid once per academic year the variable amount is a specific amount per credit you take up in your programme. Your tuition fee is calculated like this: the fixed amount + (the variable…”
VUB · read from Tuition fees | Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.
What it costs
Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.
What it costs to live
Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.
Universities in Belgium
Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.
KU Leuven
Leuven · QS #59
7 courses
from ~US$6,230 a yearVUB
Brussels · QS #295
20 courses
from ~US$2,901 a year
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