Full-time study at public institutions is free for EU citizens (English-taught programmes may charge fees), with costs covered by the Ministry of Science, while non-EU students pay fees set by the institution – around €1,000–6,000 a year in the natural and technical sciences. Croatia offers more than 1,850 programmes, around 100 of them in English, and a student residence place costs around €35–130 a month. Read about admission, living costs and student jobs.
In Croatia you can study at universities (sveučilišta), polytechnics (veleučilišta) and colleges (visoke škole), both public and private. Most universities and almost all polytechnics are public.
According to the Study in Croatia portal, Croatian institutions offer more than 1,850 programmes in total, and according to the European Commission around 100 of them are taught in English.
Universities focus mainly on academic education, while polytechnics and colleges offer professional programmes (stručni studiji) with an emphasis on practice.
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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