cities in Czechia
In most countries the city is a slice of your budget. On Czechia's tuition-free route it is the whole of it — because there is no fee to compare against.
Czechia's tuition rule is national: public universities charge nothing for degrees taught in Czech, wherever they are. That means a student on the Czech-medium route has no tuition line at all, and their entire cost is living costs.
Which makes the city choice unusually consequential. The gap between Prague and Olomouc is not a modest percentage of a budget dominated by fees — for a Czech-medium student it is close to the entire difference between one total cost and another.
On the English-taught route the fee returns and the city matters less, though it still matters. Tap a pin to open a city.
costs more / mid-range / costs less compare these cities to each other, not to anywhere else. They are our reading of the spread across Czechia, not a published index — the sourced money figures are on the costs page.
What changes between Czech cities — and what does not.
Cost, and on the free route that is everything
Prague sits clearly above the national range; Brno and Olomouc below it. With no tuition to pay, that difference is your whole budget.
The English-speaking job market
Concentrated in Prague. Everywhere else, Czech is close to necessary for work — which is one more argument for the Czech-medium route.
Tuition-free status: not at all
The rule is national and applies at every public university. A cheaper city does not buy a worse degree.
Work rights: not at all
Free labour-market access with no separate permit, everywhere in Czechia.
We publish no rent figures
No Czech authority publishes student rents by city and the circulating numbers are unsourceable. Ask your university for its dormitory rates.