How this works
Every figure is published data: immigration-authority visa fees and financial requirements, official student living budgets, per-nationality approval statistics from the UK Home Office (2025) and Australian Home Affairs (FY2024–25), overall approval statistics from twelve more governments, and median international tuition from 131,000+ real programs. Amounts are converted to USD at July 2026 rates. Each country's numbers link to their source with the date we last verified them. Where a country publishes no figure, we say so instead of guessing.
What is proof of funds?
Most countries ask you to show a fixed amount of money before anyone reads your grades — for example, Germany requires €11,904 in a blocked account and France asks for about €615 per month. The money usually needs to sit in an acceptable account for months; borrowed money and sudden deposits are common refusal reasons. This tool compares each country's published threshold against your budget, so you see which applications your money can open.
Why approval rates depend on your passport
Australia and the UK say how often each nationality gets approved; most countries don't. The differences are large — in FY2024–25 Australia approved 49% of Pakistani student applications and 93% of Chinese ones. When there is no figure for your nationality, we show the country-wide average with a “~” in front, and some countries publish nothing at all — for those we leave the approval column empty rather than guess.