International school fees · Phuket · 2026-27
UWC Thailand International School fees 2026-27: 872,000 THB a year (£19,420)
Thalang (Thepkrasattri Road), Phuket · ages Mini Mantas 2 (Junior Pre-Kindergarten) to Grade 12 · IB (Diploma Programme; IB school) · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Grade 6 to 10872,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once7,000 THB
- Placement fee, paid once100,000 THB
- School development fund - one child, paid once165,000 THB
- First year, not refundable1,144,000 THB
- Plus security deposit, refundable25,000 THB £557
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £27,319. At the high of 45.194 it was £25,313.
Source: resources.finalsite.net (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 27 October 2026. Refundable deposits are shown separately and are not in the total. Optional extras, trips, transport and uniform are not in it either.
What a year costs here.
UWC Thailand International School charges 872,000 THB a year for Grade 6 to 10 in 2026-27: about £19,419 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 272,000 THB, plus 25,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 1,144,000 THB (£25,477). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
UWC Thailand International School is an international school in Thalang (Thepkrasattri Road), Phuket, following the IB (Diploma Programme; IB school), taking children aged Mini Mantas 2 (Junior Pre-Kindergarten) to Grade 12, run by UWC (United World Colleges) member school. The figures on this page are the school's own published fees for 2026-27, converted to pounds at the mid-market rate on the day The Baht last rebuilt this page. Nothing here is an estimate: where the school does not publish a number, the line is left blank.
Rate used at build: 44.9 THB per GBP, Latest daily mid-market snapshot · 10 November 2026.
Tuition by year group.
Tap a row for the source and the sum.
Every row above is from the school's own fee schedule at resources.finalsite.net (pdf), read on 27 October 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: resources.finalsite.net, checked 27 October 2026.
Fees marked as an alternative or special case (a per-family rate instead of per child, a boarding deposit instead of the day deposit, a waiting-list fee) are listed but not added into the totals, so that the first-year figure is what one day pupil pays on the standard route.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: resources.finalsite.net, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Annual fee schedule (non-refundable once paid). Late fees 20,000 / 40,000 / 60,000 baht at 1-30 / 31-60 / 61-90 days. 3% fee on card and WeChat payments.
- Fees do not apply to students nominated by a National Committee or the Global Selection Programme. Boarding service 653,000 per year (optional). Sibling discount on tuition: 2nd 5%, 3rd 15%, 4th 25%, 5th 50%. Extras invoiced separately: uniforms, bus (optional), exam entry charges (IB, SAT etc.), significant special-needs support, AELA English programme, co-curricular and travelling-team charges. Number of terms and per-term amounts not given in the schedule. Junior PreK 345,000 and Senior PreK 400,000 are as printed.
What it costs in pounds, and why that moves.
The school bills in baht. A British family paying from sterling income pays a different amount every term because GBP/THB moves. The same Grade 6 to 10 fee of 872,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £18,167 |
| 44.9 (today) | £19,419 |
| 42 | £20,762 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £2,595 a year per child. A family paying termly from a UK account at a high-street bank's 3 to 5 per cent spread adds £777 a year on top. Fee payments are the single largest transfer most expat families make, which is why the transfer method matters more here than anywhere else in the budget.
A termly 290,667 THB transfer at the mid-market rate costs a fraction of a bank's spread. Compare the GBP to THB quote before the first invoice.
Schools in Phuket at a similar fee.
Source: each school’s own fee page; open a school for its source and checked date.
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What did you actually pay at UWC Thailand International School?
Published figures are the starting point; the real bill is what readers tell us. Reports are checked by hand before anything appears here, and no name or email is published.
Reading the fee schedule
- The hidden fees catalogue: the £30,000 to £70,000 your school will charge that is not in the tuition schedule.
- The fee inflation trap: how £18,000 in Year 1 becomes £32,000 by Year 13.
- The British family's decision framework for international schools in Asia.
- Where the £25,000 actually goes: the international school operating budget nobody publishes.
How The Baht records school fees
Every figure comes from the school's own website or fee document, recorded with its URL and the date it was checked. Figures are annual tuition as the school states them, in Thai baht, for the academic year shown. Where a school prints termly fees only, the annual figure is the termly fee multiplied by the number of terms and is marked as such. Refundable deposits are listed but excluded from first-year totals. Pound figures use the mid-market GBP/THB rate on the day the page was built (Latest daily mid-market snapshot · 10 November 2026) and are rounded to the nearest pound. Fee schedules change every year, usually between March and July; the checked date on this page is the date the figures were last read from the school's site. Corrections: editorial@thebaht.com.