New figures from the magazine's market researchers show the city of churches is 6 percent cheaper than Brisbane, in Queensland, and Perth, in Western Australia. It’s 17 percent cheaper than Victoria’s capital Melbourne and 18 percent cheaper than Sydney, in New South Wales.
South Australia’s Further Education Minister, Paul Caica says the news will boost the state's campaign to attract even more students to study in Adelaide.
He says the city has had double the national average growth in international students in the past three years, with international education injecting about $400-million into the state economy annually.
South Australia is mounting a global advertising campaign starting initially in Vietnam and China, promoting Adelaide as Australia’s Nobel Prize capital, as home to five of the country’s six nobel laureates.