For my own reference and because people might be curious, my school's English-track tuition and fees are in a Microsoft Word document linked to from our school's website. Our school's site is very poorly designed, but that's just as well because it's blocked in China right now. (UPDATE: a domestically hosted site is online now.)
Preschool | RMB 1,2500/sem (2500/mon) | USD 1,613/sem |
Elementary | RMB 2,3435/sem (4687/mon) | USD 3023/sem |
Middle School | RMB 2,7845/sem (5569/mon) | USD 3,593/sem |
High School | RMB 3,1845/sem (6369/mon) | USD 4,109/sem |
These are the approximate numbers for non-company employee children, based on 5 months per semester. I can't talk about tuition for children of employees because I signed an NDA when I started working at the school. Chinese track fees are almost exactly half of the above.
When people ask me about these numbers, I've always admit that I didn't remember. But it's true! Jodi always says I have no head for business. I'm guessing that if I could tell them, they'd gasp. But the fact is that we have a reputation among the English-language schools in Shanghai for providing good educational value for your buck. Annual tuition alone for the last year of high school can reach:
SMIC Private School | USD 7,742 |
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British Int'l School* | USD 25,587 |
Dulwich College Shanghai | USD 24,064 |
Shanghai Rego Int'l School | USD 24,000 |
Concordia Int'l School Shanghai | USD 23,910 |
Shanghai Community Int'l School | USD 22,839 |
Yew Chung Int'l School of Shanghai | USD 22,065 |
Shanghai American School | USD 21,250 |
Shanghai Livingston American School (added 2007-03-23) | USD 19,400 |
Shanghai Singapore Int'l School | USD 16,800 |
Fudan High School, Int'l Division (added 2007-06-14) | USD 10,323 |
Shanghai High School Int'l Division (added 2007-03-23) | USD 11,045 |
(Tuitions are for Pudong campuses, if multiple campuses exist. Numbers current as of the date of this post; may be for current or next academic year. (*) Includes textbooks.) Hmm, looks like SMIC is something of an outlier. Also just for kicks, the average application fee at Shanghai int'l schools runs at about USD 200. SMIC's is USD 40.
Still, don't take those number as straightforward indicators of anything. Schools should be graded on a lot more than just tuition: also consider campus facilities, course selection, teacher quality and turnover, academic culture, etc. It's just... interesting.
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