The Medical University of Plovdiv
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The Medical University of Plovdiv Admission Examination has Biology and Chemistry papers of 45 minutes each plus a Diagnostic Test of English, ranked on a competition score out of 42 that counts each science grade 3 times. This guide is built on the university's own official programme, including the Biology tasks that are not multiple choice.
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The MU-Plovdiv Entrance Exam at a glance
Checked against Medical University of Plovdiv's own published rules. Where something isn't published yet, we say so rather than guess.
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Dates, scoring and admissions
Key dates
- Document window opens
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; the 2026/2027 document window ran 2 March to 11 September 2026
- First exam sitting
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; the 2026/2027 cycle ran five sittings, the first on 15 April 2026
- Middle sittings
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; the 2026/2027 cycle's further sittings ran 15 May, 16 June and 17 July 2026
- Final sitting
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; the 2026/2027 cycle's last scheduled sitting was 18 August 2026
- Retake sitting
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; the 2026/2027 retake ran on 4 September 2026, at a higher fee than a first attempt
- Ranking list published
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; in 2026/2027 a ranking followed each month's sitting from April to June, with the final ranking and enrolment in September
- Enrolment deadline
- Not yet published2027/28 not yet published; in 2026/2027 candidates ranked from April to June pre-enrolled online and had to complete enrolment, with every document, by 11 September 2026, while the two September rankings (15 and 24 September 2026) carried enrolment windows of 16-18 and 25-30 September 2026
How it's scored
- Competition-score formula (§6.1)
- (3 × Biology grade) + (3 × Chemistry grade) + English grade
- Maximum competition score
- 42.00: three components each graded 2.00 to 6.00, with the two sciences tripled (18.00 + 18.00 + 6.00)
- Minimum competition score
- 21.00, stated verbatim in §6.1 of the official Admission Guide
- Lowest arithmetically possible score
- 14.00, not zero, because the grade scale starts at 2.00, not 0. The usable range is 14.00 to 42.00, which puts the 21.00 minimum a quarter of the way up it rather than halfway.
- Per-component floor (§6.3)
- A missing mark, or any component mark lower than the average of 3.00, removes you from the final ranking list whatever your total
- Per-question marking
- One point per correct answer, stated explicitly for Chemistry and for both parts of the English test. No penalty for a wrong or blank answer is stated anywhere.
- Answer options
- Four (A-D) in Chemistry, all 30 questions, and in Part 2 of the English test, all 30 questions. THREE (not four) in Part 1 of the English test, the 10-item Reading Comprehension block. Biology's option count is not stated; four is likely but unconfirmed.
- Biology point allocation
- Not yet publishedNot published. §1.4 of the Admission Guide gives a worked example with maximums of 6 for diagram labelling, 8 for the comparative table and 10 for text correction, but the Guide contradicts itself between §1.3 and that example, so those are likely rather than confirmed and no Biology total is derivable from them.
- Reserve questions
- Not yet publishedNeither the Biology programme, the Chemistry guidelines nor the English description mentions reserve or replacement items, recorded as unknown rather than as none.
Admissions: Medical University of Plovdiv
- Degrees
- Medicine, Dental Medicine and Pharmacy (English-taught), all admitted through this examination
- Language of instruction
- English
- Campus
- Plovdiv Campus, Bulgaria
- Tuition
- €10,000 for the first yearMedicine, for students admitted in 2026/2027 (Dental Medicine is also €10,000, Pharmacy €6,200). The tuition-fees page still lists 2025/2026: €9,000 for the first year and €8,000 for years 2 to 6
- Application fee
- €300 per exam date: €270 for the tests plus €30 for data processing; the one-off additional re-sit date costs €400
- Interview
- Not required: admission runs on the §6.1 competition score
- English certificate
- Not compulsory: CEFR B1 English must be proved, and an accepted certificate (IELTS Academic, Cambridge, TOEFL, PTE Academic, MET or Trinity ISE), an IB Diploma or a diploma from an English-speaking school system does that and exempts you from the Diagnostic Test of English; without one, you sit the test
- Motivation letter
- Not required
- Recommendation letters
- Not required
- Document requirements
- Legalisation, certified translation and apostille all required
- Bulgarian language
- Bulgarian is a mandatory part of the curriculum in years 1-2 even though teaching is in English, and you need it to talk with patients from year 3, when clinical study begins
- International cohort
- 2,530 international students from 63 countries, over 1,100 of them from EU states
- Clinical training
- Six university hospitals, including University Hospital "St. George" (Bulgaria's largest), plus the country's largest Medical Simulation Training Centre
- Cost of living
- MU-Plovdiv's International Students FAQ puts it at about €1,300 a month with a private apartment and daily expenses; a double room in a university hostel costs about €80 a month (accommodation and utilities only)
- Seats available
- Not yet publishedNo seat count or applicant volume for the English-taught programmes is published in any source IvyTest has confirmed
Checked against 13 official sources, most recently on 12 October 2026. Read the full MU-Plovdiv Entrance Exam guide →
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- Reproduction and Inheritance
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- Chemical Bonding and Properties of Matter
- Stoichiometry and Chemical Reactions
- Equilibria, Acids-Bases, and Redox
- Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
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Yes. Medical University of Plovdiv delivers Medicine in English and runs its admission process in the same language.
It depends on the school and the cycle. Several universities (Varna, Zlatarov, and Pleven in recent cycles) run the exam fully online and remotely proctored; Sofia University's programme page does not say where its exam is sat. Check the current cycle's format for your target school; this guide notes it where published.
At some schools, yes. Medical University of Sofia's combined exam includes an English component, and Medical University of Varna runs a separate language-competency test alongside its two science papers. Medical University of Plovdiv and Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov University set an English diagnostic test only for candidates who don't already hold an accepted English certificate. Not every Bulgarian school tests English at all.
No separate national board exam. Bulgaria's state exam is built into the final year of the six-year degree itself, followed by free, indefinite registration in the National Register of the Bulgarian Medical Association (BLS).
Yes, it's the 2027 edition, built from the latest admission rules Medical University of Plovdiv has published. Where a 2027 date or detail isn't published yet, confirm it with the university before you rely on it.
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