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International School Fees in Bangalore
Top-year fees at Bangalore's international schools run from INR 1.75 lakh to INR 12.67 lakh. The ladder, the drivers, where the city sits globally.
The brief
- The Bangalore ceiling sits at INR 12.67 lakh. Stonehill International charges that for the IB Diploma year, roughly USD 15,200. No published tuition line in the city goes higher.
- The premium IB cluster runs INR 10 lakh to INR 12.7 lakh top-year. Stonehill, Indus, Oakridge, TISB, Neev and Canadian International all sit in this band, USD 12,000 to USD 15,200 at the senior year.
- The mid tier prices at INR 5 lakh to INR 9 lakh top-year. Candor, Greenwood, Trio, Mallya Aditi. Most run dual IB plus Cambridge on campuses a generation younger than the premium six.
- The value end is genuinely cheap. NPS Indiranagar, Geethanjali, Deens, Edify and Treamis publish top-year tuition under INR 4 lakh; NPS the floor at INR 1.82 lakh, around USD 2,180.
- Bangalore prices low for the global market. Median top-year day fee is USD 10,200, third-cheapest of the 49 cities the ISG dataset tracks and roughly USD 6,300 below the global median.
The Bangalore market splits in three: a small premium IB cluster anchored by Stonehill at the top, a broader mid tier of dual-curriculum schools through the Sarjapur and Whitefield corridors, and a long value tail of CBSE and ICSE schools that publish a tuition line under INR 2 lakh. The spread on top-year tuition runs about 7x end to end within the city.
The headline numbers
Nineteen Bangalore international schools publish a structured top-year tuition figure in the ISG fees database; 49 list as international in the city. USD figures convert at an indicative INR 1 = USD 0.012 for cross-city comparison only.
| Tier | Top-year INR | Top-year USD | Curriculum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonehill International School | 12,67,100 | 15,205 | IB PYP, MYP, DP, CP |
| Indus International School | 12,00,000 | 14,400 | IB |
| Oakridge International School | 11,80,000 | 14,160 | IB |
| The International School Bangalore | 11,00,000 | 13,200 | IB DP, Cambridge |
| Neev Academy | 11,00,000 | 13,200 | IB, ICSE |
| Canadian International School | 10,30,000 | 12,360 | IB, Cambridge |
| Inventure Academy | 10,01,000 | 12,012 | Cambridge, IGCSE |
| Greenwood High International | 9,25,000 | 11,100 | IB, Cambridge, ICSE |
| Trio World Academy | 8,75,000 | 10,500 | IB, Cambridge |
| Mallya Aditi International | 8,50,000 | 10,200 | Cambridge, ICSE |
| Candor International | 6,45,000 | 7,740 | IB, Cambridge |
| Ebenezer International | 5,20,000 | 6,240 | IB, Cambridge |
| Vidyashilp Academy | 3,80,000 | 4,560 | ICSE, IGCSE |
| Treamis World School | 3,53,000 | 4,236 | CBSE, IB, Cambridge |
| Bangalore International School | 3,03,000 | 3,636 | IB, Cambridge |
| The Deens Academy | 2,10,000 | 2,520 | CBSE |
| Edify School Bangalore | 2,05,000 | 2,460 | CBSE, IGCSE |
| NPS Indiranagar | 1,81,655 | 2,180 | CBSE |
| Geethanjali International | 1,75,000 | 2,100 | Cambridge, CBSE |
Top-year published annual tuition. USD at INR 1 = 0.012; verify current figures with each school.
The top six cluster within INR 2.4 lakh of each other, between INR 10.3 and 12.7 lakh. A gap, then a mid tier from INR 6 to 9 lakh runs another six schools, another gap, then a value tail. Bangalore does not have one obvious "next school down" from Stonehill in fee terms. It has five.
The premium IB tier
The top six all run the IB Diploma in the senior years, on campuses founded between 1996 and 2008 on the city's eastern and northern outskirts: Yelahanka, Sarjapur, Whitefield, Hennur. Land out there was still cheap a generation ago; the campuses are now twenty years amortised and large enough for full IB facility requirements.
Stonehill is the city ceiling. The IB Diploma year prices at INR 12,67,100; MYP at INR 12,10,605; PYP from INR 5,81,090 in early kindergarten to INR 11,13,757 by Grade 5. The school adds a first-child Development Fee of INR 1,83,425 and a refundable Security Deposit of INR 2,93,480 at admission. Year-one one-offs come to roughly INR 4.77 lakh, about USD 5,725.
Indus and Oakridge sit a step below on tuition: INR 12 lakh and INR 11.8 lakh at the Diploma. Both are full IB. TISB, Neev and Canadian International School complete the cluster at INR 10.3 to 11 lakh. The spread within the six is narrow enough that a family choosing between them is rarely deciding on cost.
These figures place Bangalore decisively below the international school ceilings in Mumbai, Delhi or the major East Asian financial centres. American Embassy School New Delhi tops INR 31 lakh; American School of Bombay sits near INR 30 lakh. Stonehill's INR 12.7 lakh would price as upper-mid in either city. The single largest reason: Bangalore has no embassy school tier, no diplomatic or dollar-contract cohort large enough to support a campus pricing into the high USD 20,000s.
The mid tier
Six schools sit in the INR 5 lakh to INR 9 lakh top-year band: Greenwood High, Trio World Academy, Mallya Aditi, Candor, Ebenezer and the upper end of Inventure. Most run a dual-pathway senior school, IB Diploma alongside Cambridge A-Levels or IGCSE. Several were founded after 2005 on smaller plots than the premium six, and most carry CIS or COBIS membership rather than full accreditation.
Candor is illustrative of the curve through the school. Nursery prices at INR 1.8 lakh; the IB Diploma year at INR 6.45 lakh. A 3.6x escalation from foundation to senior year, steeper than the premium tier (Stonehill runs about 2.2x from PYP entry to Diploma) and a deliberate choice to keep entry pricing accessible while the senior-year IB authorisation cost is fully passed through.
The practical choice in the mid tier is often between a longer-established CBSE or ICSE school stepping up into IB and Cambridge (Mallya Aditi, 1984; Ebenezer, 2006), and a newer purpose-built international school (Trio, 2007; Candor, 2011). The fee ladder runs roughly the same either way.
The value end
Seven schools publish top-year tuition under INR 4 lakh: Vidyashilp, Treamis, Bangalore International School, Deens, Edify, NPS Indiranagar and Geethanjali. The cheapest, NPS Indiranagar, prices the Class 11-12 CBSE year at INR 1,56,850 with a one-off admission fee of INR 10,000. Roughly USD 1,880 a year, around an eighth of Stonehill.
Three things separate these from the premium tier. They run CBSE or ICSE through the senior years, not the IB Diploma; authorisation and assessment costs are correspondingly low. They serve primarily Indian families, including expatriate Indians and corporate-relocation returnees. And they are larger schools on smaller per-pupil footprints: NPS Indiranagar runs around 3,000 students, Deens about 2,500, against Stonehill's roughly 600. The unit economics work at a different fee level.
For an inbound expatriate family from outside India, the value-end schools are not usually a like-for-like substitute for the premium IB tier; cohort, curriculum endpoint and English-medium teacher mix all differ. For an Indian-origin family with a strong CBSE preference, they are a serious option.
Bangalore International School at INR 3.03 lakh is the structural exception. CIS-accredited, founded 1969, full IB Diploma in the senior years; the fee sits a tier below the premium six because the school is small (around 500 students) and operates from a long-held Hennur campus.
What sits beyond the tuition line
Published tuition is the headline, not the full cost. Four categories of charge sit above or alongside it.
One-off admission charges. The premium tier charges an application fee of INR 5,000 to 15,000 at enquiry, a non-refundable admission fee of INR 45,000 to 1,83,000 on offer, and a refundable security deposit of INR 50,000 to nearly INR 3 lakh held against the place. Stonehill is the highest at INR 4.87 lakh in year-one one-offs; Indus runs INR 57,500 non-refundable plus a INR 50,000 deposit, a far lighter onboarding cost.
Transport. A school bus place from a typical expat-cluster address (Whitefield, Indiranagar, Koramangala) to a campus on the Sarjapur or Yelahanka outskirts runs INR 60,000 to INR 1.2 lakh annually depending on distance. None of the table fees include transport.
Boarding. Greenwood, Ebenezer, Treamis and Indus run residential programmes; boarding adds INR 4 lakh to INR 7 lakh on top of day tuition at the premium end.
Year-on-year escalation. Bangalore international schools have stepped fees up in mid- to high-single-digit percentages annually. A four-year horizon implies cumulative escalation of roughly 25 to 35% on the headline figure.
Why Bangalore prices where it does
Four drivers explain the city's global position.
The CBSE and ICSE substitute. Unlike Singapore or Hong Kong, Bangalore has a deep, high-quality, English-medium domestic school sector at one-tenth the cost of the IB top tier. NPS Indiranagar is among the strongest CBSE schools in India by exam outcomes. That places a competitive ceiling on what the IB premium tier can charge.
The tech-corridor employer market is large but mostly Indian. The Bangalore expatriate population is dominated by Indian-origin returnees and US-India dual-passport families on rupee packages, not by Western expatriates on hardship packages. Some employers underwrite school fees up to a cap, often USD 10,000 to USD 20,000; the premium tier prices into that band rather than above it. The result is a ceiling around INR 12 to 13 lakh rather than the INR 25 to 30 lakh ceilings of New Delhi or Mumbai.
Karnataka land prices on the school belt. The premium six occupy twenty- to thirty-acre campuses in Sarjapur, Yelahanka and Whitefield. Twenty years ago this was agricultural land at a small fraction of central Bangalore prices. The campus cost line in current tuition is correspondingly low.
No dollar-contract anchor tenant. The biggest driver of the ceiling in Jakarta (JIS), New Delhi (American Embassy School) or Beijing is a flagship campus serving a diplomatic or fully expatriate cohort on dollar contracts. Bangalore does not have one. The closest equivalents, TISB and Stonehill, are pitched at a mixed Indian and expatriate intake, and price for it.
Bangalore in the global table
Across the 49 cities in the ISG dataset, Bangalore's median top-year day fee of USD 10,200 ranks it among the cheaper premium markets globally. By comparison:
| City | Median top-year (USD) |
|---|---|
| Beijing | 48,006 |
| London | 44,577 |
| Singapore | 29,163 |
| Hong Kong | 27,662 |
| Dubai | 17,915 |
| Bangkok | 16,646 |
| Bangalore | 10,200 |
| Mumbai | 10,080 |
| Jakarta | 9,488 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 8,097 |
Median top-year day fee for schools whose published programme reaches age 14.
Bangalore's value floor (NPS Indiranagar at USD 2,180) sits close to Mumbai's (Springdales, USD 1,696). The ceiling (Stonehill at USD 15,200) prices well below Mumbai's (American School of Bombay, USD 37,254) or Delhi's (American Embassy School, USD 38,231). The city's market is shallower at the top and deeper at the value end than the other Indian metros.
Related reading
- Best International Schools in Bangalore, the pillar guide ranking the city's full set.
- Best British Schools in Bangalore, the Cambridge and IGCSE schools by tier.
- International School Fees: A Global Comparison, Bangalore in the 50-city context.
- How to Choose an International School, on curriculum, fee bracket, location, cohort fit.
FAQs
How much do international schools cost in Bangalore? Top-year published annual tuition runs from INR 1.75 lakh at the cheapest CBSE schools (Geethanjali, NPS Indiranagar) to INR 12.67 lakh at Stonehill International, the city ceiling. The premium IB cluster (Stonehill, Indus, Oakridge, TISB, Neev, Canadian International) all sit between INR 10 lakh and INR 12.7 lakh top-year. The mid tier prices at INR 5 lakh to INR 9 lakh. In USD terms, the city ranges from about USD 2,100 to USD 15,200 at top-year, depending on school.
Why is Bangalore cheaper than Mumbai or New Delhi for international schools? Bangalore does not have an "embassy school" tier serving a diplomatic and dollar-contract cohort, which is where the very top fees concentrate in Delhi (American Embassy School) and Mumbai (American School of Bombay). The expatriate population is heavily Indian-origin and India-domiciled with rupee packages, and the premium campuses were built on land that was cheap a generation ago.
Do Bangalore international schools charge a development fee? The premium schools mostly do. Stonehill charges a one-off Development Fee of INR 1,83,425 plus a refundable Security Deposit of INR 2,93,480. Indus, TISB and Oakridge structure the one-offs differently but each charges a non-refundable admission fee plus a refundable deposit. CBSE and ICSE value-end schools charge a single admission fee of INR 10,000 to 30,000.
Which Bangalore school is the cheapest with a full IB Diploma? Bangalore International School in Hennur, at INR 3,03,000 top-year. CIS-accredited, founded 1969, full IB Diploma in the senior years. The next-cheapest IB Diploma school in the data is Ebenezer International at INR 5,20,000.