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Thailand International School Fees Report
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Headline findings
The figures we stand behind
| Figure | Basis & sample |
|---|---|
| Fee trend — Bangkok, like-for-like Across 42 Bangkok international schools with matched published fees in both 2020/21 and 2024/25, the median fee rose +13.7% — about +3.3% a year. | Like-for-like fee history: the same schools at both ends of the window, midpoint of each school's published range, range and per-grade figures only (single-figure years excluded). The underlying dataset holds 455 fee-history records recovered from archived school and directory pages — real data points only, never interpolated. |
| The full published span Published annual fees across listed Thailand international schools span ฿80,000 to ฿1,283,500 a year. | All 132 open international-school listings with a published fee figure, as published by each school and checked 2026-10-06. Boarding, one-off charges and deposits are excluded. |
| Where the fee figures come from Of 184 fully verified international-school listings, 111 carry fees captured from the school's own documents [O], 23 rest on aggregator figures [A], and 50 publish no fee figure we could verify [NV]. | Source labels are assigned per school at verification and shown on every school page, next to the figure itself. |
| Bilingual / EP schools publish far less Of 75 listed bilingual and English Programme schools, only 12 (16%) publish any fee figure at all — and only 6 publish a full annual range. The rest are enquiry-only. | Bilingual/EP section census, all 75 listed schools checked 2026-10-06. Figures published per term or per semester are counted as published; they are never silently converted to annual figures. |
| When schools disagree with themselves In 6 documented cases across 4 schools, a school's own website states different totals for the same figure in different places. We record both figures, each with its source and date, rather than choosing one. | CredRadar community-figure cross-check of schools' own published pages, October 2026. The cases are listed in full further down this page and on each school's page. |
| Thai universities: dual pricing 29 of the 133 listed English-taught programmes at Thai universities publish separate Thai and foreign-student rates. Where both rates are stated, the foreign rate is 1% to 64% higher than the Thai rate (median 30%). | Programme-level fees as published by each institution for the stated academic year; per-year equivalents are the institution's own figures or plain arithmetic on them, shown on each programme row. |
| Bachelor's programmes: the core band For bachelor's programmes, the foreign-student rate's per-year equivalent has a median of ฿210,000 a year, and 70% of programmes fall in a core band of ฿90,000 to ฿320,000 a year. | All listed bachelor's programmes with a published foreign rate and a per-year equivalent (103 programmes). Joint and premium international-college programmes sit above the band and pull the maximum far higher. |
| Context — students from China Around 28,000 Chinese students were enrolled in Thai higher education in 2024 — more than half of all international students in Thailand. | Royal Thai Government, 2025. A context figure from an official source — not CredRadar data. |
How to cite this report
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Method
Methodology in brief
Every fee in the dataset keeps the label of the document it came from: [O] the school's own document, [A] a named aggregator, [NV] not published by the school. Like-for-like comparisons use the same schools at both ends of a window and the midpoint of each school's published range; where a school publishes nothing, we say so — we never estimate, interpolate or annualise a figure the school did not publish. Conflicting figures are printed side by side, each with its source. The full method, including how corrections work, is on the methodology page.
Over time
Bangkok fees over time — the like-for-like trend
Cross-sectional medians move whenever schools join or leave an index, so the trend that can be defended is the like-for-like one: the same schools at both ends of the window. Two windows are fully supported by the archived record today:
| Window | Schools matched | Median change | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21 → 2024/25 | 42 | +13.7% | +3.3% |
| 2021/22 → 2024/25 | 46 | +9.8% | +3.2% |
How the individual schools moved, 2020/21 → 2024/25
Distribution of school-level midpoint changes across the matched schools in the current dataset. Most schools cluster in the 10–20% band; a small number cut fees over the window.
The market today
The full market, as published
Across the 132 listed schools that publish a figure, annual fees span ฿80,000 to ฿1,283,500. The distribution by top-of-range fee:
| Fee band (top of published range) | Schools | Share of publishers |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ ฿300k | 26 | 20% |
| ฿300k – 600k | 55 | 42% |
| ฿600k – 900k | 31 | 23% |
| ฿900k – 1.2m | 17 | 13% |
| > ฿1.2m | 3 | 2% |
Medians by city and curriculum, the boarding premium and the full market tables are in the companion 2026 market report.
Transparency
The transparency gap
Fee transparency is the exception, not the rule. 50 of 184 fully verified international schools publish no fee figure at all, and bilingual/EP schools publish far less than international schools — 12 of 75 list any figure, in whatever unit the school chooses. Families comparing schools are therefore often comparing one school's published schedule against another school's silence. We label the gap rather than filling it with estimates, so that every figure in this report traces to a document a school actually published.
On the record
When a school's own pages disagree
These are the documented cases behind finding 5. Each is also shown, with both figures and their sources, on the school's own page; a school may answer any of them under the corrections policy. Stating both figures is not a criticism of the school — pages are updated at different times, and the record should show what each page said, and when.
- Bangkok Patana School — the history section of its homepage states “over 2,300 students”, while its admissions page states “over 2,200 students from around 65 countries”. Both are live on patana.ac.th; both are recorded.
- Lycée Français International de Bangkok (LFIB) — the homepage stat strip reads 650 students and 10 nationalities, while the school's own School Profile 2025 (PDF) states about 1,030 students of more than 40 nationalities.
- British International School, Phuket (BISP) — the homepage states 60+ student nationalities; the School Profile page (2026–2027) states “over 55 nationalities”, as does the 2025–2026 profile PDF. Its faculty nationalities differ in the same documents (16 vs 18), and its boarding numbers differ by year (100+, 130, 120).
- NIST International School — its homepage gives its nationality count in three forms in different sections: “95+ nationalities”, “over 90 nationalities” and “95 nationalities”. The figures are close, but they are not the same figure.
Bangkok Patana SchoolLycée Français International de BangkokBritish International School, PhuketNIST International School
Universities
Thai universities — two prices for one programme
Dual pricing is the Thai university sector's signature: the same English-taught programme is routinely published at one rate for Thai students and a higher rate for foreign students. It is printed openly in institutions' own fee tables — 29 of 133 listed programmes publish both rates — and it is invisible in the single “average tuition” figures most guides quote. For a foreign family, the only honest figure is the foreign rate, on the basis the institution itself states (per year, per semester, per credit or for the whole programme).
Why this matters now
Around 28,000 Chinese students were enrolled in Thai higher education in 2024 — more than half of all international students in Thailand.
Royal Thai Government, 2025. A context figure from an official source — not CredRadar data.
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