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Every year, students from Asia Pacific leave home to study abroad in countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom, and United States. And here we come in to provide HSBC Premier customers useful tips and information to help you better prepare for your children.

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Researching and planning
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Finding the right school
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Getting ready for departure
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During the time abroad

Researching and planning

The first step is to determine which country best suits your child. This is the key to financial planning as education and living expenses differ from country to country.

Understanding your destination

From general country information to education system overviews, our country and education guides aim to help you.

Australia
Country guide
United Kingdom
Country guide
United States
Country guide
Singapore
Country guide
France
Country guide
Canada
Country guide

Estimating your costs

You can estimate the finances required with our education planning calculator.

Calculate how much I need

Financial support

Project how much you will need to support your child's education. Average/indicative tuition fees and living expenses for key destination countries are for reference only.


Local currency equivalent	Australia	United Kingdom	United States

Tuition fees per annum
Secondary School	AUD9,000 - AUD18,000	GBP12,000 - GBP18,000	USD20,000 - USD50,000
Certificate/Diploma	AUD13,000 - AUD18,000	GBP12,000 - GBP18,000	N/A
Foundation College	AUD19,000 - AUD35,000	GBP13,000 - GBP25,000	USD11,000 - USD18,000
Community College	N/A	N/A	USD9,000 - USD18,000
University
Art/Business	AUD17,000 - AUD31,000	GBP12,000 - GBP16,000	USD22,000 - USD50,000
Medicine/Science	AUD21,000 - AUD33,000	GBP16,000 - GBP22,000	USD22,000 - USD50,000
Living expenses	AUD9,000 - AUD14,000	GBP8,000 - GBP14,000	USD12,000 - USD25,000

Tuition fees per annum
Secondary School	HKD80,000 - HKD150,000	HKD150,000 - HKD230,000	HKD160,000 - HKD390,000
Certificate/Diploma	HKD110,000 - HKD150,000	HKD150,000 - HKD230,000	N/A
Foundation College	HKD150,000 - HKD280,000	HKD170,000 - HKD310,000	HKD90,000 - HKD150,000
Community College	N/A	N/A	HKD80,000 - HKD150,000
University
Art/Business	HKD140,000 - HKD250,000	HKD150,000 - HKD200,000	HKD180,000 - HKD390,000
Medicine/Science	HKD170,000 - HKD260,000	HKD200,000 - HKD280,000	HKD180,000 - HKD390,000
Living expenses	HKD80,000 - HKD110,000	HKD100,000 - HKD180,000	HKD100,000 - HKD200,000

Source: Education First (The above information is updated in 2011 and is for reference only.)

1 Australian National University 2 The University of Melbourne 3 The University of Sydney 4 The University of Queensland 5 The University of New South Wales 6 Monash University 7 The University of Western Australia 8 The University of Adelaide 9 Macquarie University 10 RMIT University (Source: EF Education First, 2011)	11 University of South Australia 12 Curtin University of Technology 13 Queensland University of Technology 14 University of Technology, Sydney 15 University of Wollongong 16 University of Newcastle 17 Flinders University 18 La Trobe University 19 University of Tasmania 20 Griffith University

1 University of Oxford 2 University of Cambridge 3 London School of Economics and Political Science 4 Imperial College London 5 University College London 6 Durham University 6 University of St Andrews 8 The University of Warwick 9 Lancaster University 10 University of Exeter (Source: EF Education First, 2011)	11 The University of York 12 University of Bath 13 University of Bristol 14 University of Sussex 15 The University of Edinburgh 16 The University of Nottingham 17 University of Sheffield 17 University of Leicester 19 University of Southampton 20 Loughborough University

1 Harvard University 1 Princeton University 3 Yale University 4 Columbia University 5 California Institute of Technology 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Stanford University 5 University of Chicago 5 University of Pennsylvania 10 Duke University (Source: EF Education First, 2011)	11 Dartmouth College 12 Northwestern University 13 Johns Hopkins University 14 Washington University in St. Louis 15 Brown University 15 Cornell University 17 Rice University 17 Vanderbilt University 19 University of Notre Dame 20 Emory University

- DigiPen Institute of Technology - EDHEC-Risk Institute - ESSEC Business School - German Institute of Science and Technology-TUM Asia - INSEAD - Institute of Technical Education - LASALLE College of the Arts - Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Nanyang Polytechnic - Nanyang Technological University - National University of Singapore - Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Source: Ministry of Education (MOE))	- Republic Polytechnic - S P Jain Center of Management - Singapore Institute of Management - Singapore Institute of Technology - Singapore Management University - Singapore Polytechnic - Singapore University of Technology and Design - Temasek Polytechnic - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business - Tisch School of the Arts Asia - UNLV Singapore

Management Schools - HEC Paris - ESSEC (Cergy-Pontoise) - ESCP Europe (Paris) - EM Lyon - EDHEC (Lille, Nice, Paris) - ESC Grenoble - Audencia Nantes - IESEG - ESC Toulouse - Euromed (Marseille) - Rouen Business School - Reims Management School (Source: L'Étudiant & L'Expansion in 2011) Universities - Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris-VI) - Paris-Sud Orsay (Paris XI) - Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-Ulm) - Paris-Diderot (Paris-VII) - Université de Strasbourg - Joseph-Fourier (Grenoble-I) - Paris-Descartes (Paris-V) - Lyon-I - L'ESPCI Paris Tech (Source: Le Figaro - Classement des universités in 2010)	Engineering Schools - Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC) - Ecole polytechnique-ParisTech - Ecole centrale de Paris (ECP) - Mines-ParisTech - Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Paris (ENST) - Ecole nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (ENSTA) - Ecole nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (SupAéro-Toulouse) - Agro-ParisTech - Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE) - Ecole supérieure d'électricité (Supélec) (Source: L'Étudiant & L'Expansion in 2011)

1 McGill University 2 University of Toronto 3 University of British Columbia 4 University of Alberta 5 Université de Montréal 6 Queen's University 7 The University of Western Ontario 8 McMaster University 9 University of Waterloo 10 University of Calgary 11 Dalhousie University (Source: EF Education First, 2011)	12 University of Ottawa 13 Simon Fraser University 14 University of Victoria 15 Laval University 16 York University 17 University of Manitoba 18 University of Guelph 19 Université du Québec 19 Carleton University 21 Concordia University

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