Study in Toulouse

Budget roughly €900/month sharing an apartment (colocation), or around €1200/month for your own studio. Both figures include rent, food, transport, and daily expenses. Studio rents run in the mid-hundreds per month, with shared rooms notably cheaper; CAF housing aid of €100–300 is available for eligible students.

Toulouse is home to several leading institutions including Toulouse III Paul Sabatier (35,000) and Toulouse Capitole (25,000). Top grandes écoles include TBS Education, INSA Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO. The strongest fields are Aerospace Engineering, Business, Medicine, Sciences, Law. EU students pay €178/year and non-EU students pay €2895/year at public universities.

Toulouse has good public transport. A discounted student pass (Tisséo abonnement étudiant (carte Pastel)) is available — check Tisséo for the current rate. The city is bike-friendly with VélÔToulouse bike-share bike-share. Airport access is available via Toulouse-Blagnac international airport; TGV to Paris 4 hrs.

Yes. Students in Toulouse on a French student visa can work 964 hrs/year (~18.5 hrs/wk). The local student job market is strong — airbus, thales, safran, capgemini hqs. Internship opportunities are also exceptional for engineering — airbus global hq in toulouse.

Exceptionally. Airbus’s global headquarters, Thales, Safran and ATR are all here, and schools like ISAE-SUPAERO and INSA Toulouse feed directly into the local “aeronautical valley”. For aeronautics, space or engineering it is arguably the strongest career pipeline in Europe.

Les Carmes and Saint-Cyprien are the liveliest central choices; Compans-Caffarelli suits business students near TBS, while Rangueil puts science and engineering students beside the Paul Sabatier campus on métro line B. The two-line métro makes most areas commutable.

The airport tram (line T2) runs from Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) into the centre in roughly 20–30 minutes and is the cheapest option; a dedicated airport shuttle bus and taxis are also available. The airport sits just northwest of the city.

Yes — rents and daily costs in Toulouse are noticeably lower than in Paris and generally below Lyon, while it still ranks as France’s top student city in national surveys. The southwest sunshine and student infrastructure are a big part of the draw.

Warm and outdoors-driven: apéro on the banks of the Garonne, live music at venues like Le Bikini, and rugby fervour around Stade Toulousain. The Canal du Midi, Place Saint-Pierre and the Saint-Aubin market anchor most students’ weekends.

Usually yes — most Toulouse landlords ask for a French guarantor. If you don’t have one, use Visale, the free government-backed guarantor scheme for students under 30; the certificate takes about a week to obtain online and is widely accepted by local agencies.