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How StudyPath works
Every fee, deadline and entry requirement here was read off the university's own website — not copied from a ranking site or an agent.
Free, no account needed to browse. That's the whole idea. Now pick where to start:
You'll see one of these next to every number. Tap one:
We checked this one ourselves
This figure was read off the university's own website, and we keep an archived copy of that exact page. Open “Show the source” under any figure and you'll see the sentence it came from, which page, and the date we read it.
That's the whole site in thirty seconds. Everything below is detail for when you want it.
What this actually is
StudyPath is a directory of undergraduate and master's degrees at ranked universities worldwide, built around one rule: every fee, deadline and intake date is read from the university's own official page and checked against an archived copy of it — never copied from a ranking site, a study-abroad aggregator, or an agent's brochure. Those sources go stale constantly and rarely say so.
It's free, with no account required to browse, filter, or compare. Signing in only unlocks things that need an identity — saving a shortlist, writing a review, flagging a figure that's gone stale.
More about the three ways in
- Find my uni — a short guided form. Answer a few questions about subject, budget and where you'd consider, and it narrows the whole dataset down for you. The fastest start if you don't know where to begin.
- Courses — browse by subject first, university second. Best if you already know you want to study Computer Science, or Medicine, or Economics, and want to see every option across every country at once.
- Universities — browse by institution first. Best if you have a QS rank range or a country in mind and want to compare whole universities against each other, then open one to see its own courses.
All three read and write the same filters through the page's URL, so a link you copy or a page you press back to always shows what you actually had selected.
Reading a course card
✓ Verifiedmeans the figure shown is quoted, word for word, from an archived copy of the university's own page — click "Show the fee on the university's site" on any card to see the exact source and when it was last checked.
Not verified means no citable figure has been found yet for that specific field. It is never a claim that the thing doesn't exist — only that this site hasn't confirmed it. A university with a "not verified" deadline may well have a real one; nobody has found and archived it yet.
Confirmed tuition-free is its own category, separate from "not verified" — it means the university's own page states plainly that no tuition is charged, which is a real, positive fact, not an absence of one.
QS rank notation follows QS's own conventions: a plain number is an exact rank, an = before it (e.g. "=270") means it's tied with another university at that position, and a range (e.g. "801-850") means QS only publishes a band there, not an exact position. A branch campus QS hasn't ranked separately shows its parent institution's number labelled "(parent)" — for context, never as if it were the branch's own figure.
What the filters actually do
The Within budget, English-taught and equivalent quick filters are on by default, on the idea that most readers here are looking for somewhere they can afford and actually study at — not because the site is hiding anything. Every one of them is a single click to turn off, and once you do, it stays off until you turn it back on or press "Clear all filters."
Only fully English-taughtspecifically excludes bilingual courses too (where only part of the degree is in English) — a stricter bar than just "hide foreign-language courses," which is already the baseline behaviour even with this switched off.
Fieldchips (Computing & AI, Medicine & Health, and so on) group several related subjects at once; Subject chips underneath let you narrow to one specific discipline inside a field, like Mechanical Engineering on its own rather than all of Engineering.
The rest of the site
- Compare — pin a university or a course from anywhere on the site with the "+ Compare" button, then open the compare tray to see them side by side.
- Cost calculator — a fuller estimate of what a year actually costs beyond tuition alone: rent, food, visas, insurance.
- Scholarships — enter your grades and it checks them against the published criteria for national and university-specific awards, rather than just listing every scholarship that exists regardless of whether you'd actually qualify.
- Careers — start from the subjects you're already studying and see which degrees your grades meet the entry requirements for, and real wage data for where they lead.
- Signing in (top right, no password — a one-tap email link or Google) saves universities to a shortlist you can find again, lets you read and write reviews from students who actually went, add your own campus photos, and flag a figure that's gone stale so it gets rechecked. Nothing else on the site requires it.
Questions
Why does a university show 0 courses when I filter?
Most often, none of that university's courses satisfy every active filter at once — try turning one off to see which. A card that says "0 of 12" is telling you the truth about the other 11, not hiding them by accident.
Occasionally it means the opposite problem: a course exists but this site hasn't confirmed what language it's taught in, and rather than guess "probably English" and risk being wrong, it stays hidden until that's actually checked. A handful of universities are affected by this right now while that gets worked through.
Why do some universities have no QS rank at all?
QS doesn't rank every university in the world — plenty of real, accredited institutions with genuinely cheap or excellent courses simply aren't in its rankings. Those show as "Not separately ranked" rather than being left off the site entirely.
Is this actually free?
Yes, for students, always. The site is supported by a small amount of advertising and occasional sponsored placements — which are always labelled as such — never by charging students to browse, filter, or compare.
How is this different from a ranking site or study-abroad agency?
Those sites are usually paid by universities to list them, and their fee figures are frequently a year or more out of date. This site cites the university's own page for every figure and shows you that source directly, so you can check it yourself rather than take the claim on faith.
I found a mistake or an out-of-date figure — what do I do?
Every course card has a way to flag it directly from the page, which routes to a real recheck rather than into a queue nobody reads. Fees change every academic year, so always confirm on the official page before making a decision or a payment either way.