The UIC Barcelona
Admission Guide
UIC Barcelona's Medicine Entrance Examination is sat in one session of four to five hours: an emotional-aptitude test, a knowledge test in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics, and a structured written interview, together worth 50% of the admission mark. This guide is built on UIC Barcelona's own published admission rules.
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Sitting the UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination for UIC Barcelona's Spanish-taught MD programme.
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The UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination at a glance
Checked against Universitat Internacional de Catalunya's own published rules. Where something isn't published yet, we say so rather than guess.
Read the full UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination guide →
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Dates, scoring and admissions
Key dates
- Applications open
- Not yet publishedNo opening date published; on 12 October 2026 UIC's Medicine page already gave 13 February 2027 as the next exam
- Application deadline
- Not yet publishedNo date published: UIC's entrance-exams page says the list of candidates closes one week before the exam (by IvyTest's count, 6 February 2027 for the 13 February 2027 sitting), after your documents are validated and the exam fee paid
- Entrance-exam sitting
- Saturday 13 February 2027UIC's Medicine page gives 13 February 2027 as the next entrance exam, and its entrance-exams page lists it as in person. The 2026 exam was on Saturday 9 May 2026.
- Shape of the day
- Roughly 09:00 to 13:00UIC's own FAQ states the three admission-test components together run 'entre cuatro y cinco horas' (four to five hours) as one combined sitting, rather than as separately scheduled tests.
- Results
- Not yet publishedNo fixed date: UIC's Medicine page says decisions arrive within three weeks of the exam, and its FAQ about fifteen working days
- Place reservation and enrolment
- Not yet publishedNo fixed date: an admitted candidate has 15 calendar days to pay the reservation, 20% of first-year tuition; enrolment runs between June and September
How it's scored
- Prior academic record
- 50% of the admission mark, fixed before you sit anything
- Admission tests (all three components together)
- 50% of the admission mark
- Split across the three components
- Knowledge test 25%, emotional-intelligence test 25%; the written interview has no percentage but can raise, lower or keep the mark (marked only for the top 220)
- Correct answer
- Not yet publishedNot published. IvyTest records +1 as the neutral working assumption; UIC states no marking rule
- Incorrect answer
- No penalty: UIC's Medicine page states "There is no penalty for wrong answers"
- Unanswered question
- Not yet publishedNot published
- Minimum eligible score
- Not yet publishedNone published; UIC states no pass mark for the tests or for the overall admission mark
- Per-subject floors
- None: there is no Spanish counterpart to the Italian OFA additional learning requirement, and UIC publishes no per-subject minimum
- Sample papers
- None: UIC states outright that no sample exams are available
- Calculators
- Not permitted: UIC's Medicine page states that calculators cannot be used
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- Degree
- Bachelor's Degree in Medicine, UIC Barcelona
- Programme language
- Catalan and Spanish, with some subjects in English
- Language of the admission paper
- SpanishThe written interview can be answered in Catalan, Spanish or English
- Campus
- Campus Sant Cugat, Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain
- Tuition
- €18,600 / year (€310 per ECTS credit × 60 credits)
- Application fee
- €110 entrance-exam feePaid once your documents have been validated. UIC's Spanish and Catalan Medicine pages say €110; its English page still says €100, and UIC's general fees page says €120
- Place reservation
- A deposit equal to 20% of first-year tuition secures an offered place
- Language certificate
- Not yet publishedUIC's FAQ says no B2 English certificate is needed to sit the tests; no Spanish or Catalan level requirement is published
- Interview
- A structured written interview is part of the admission sitting itself; there is no separate spoken interview stage
- Total seats
- 100UIC's FAQ puts the number sitting the tests at around 550; 15 further places are offered to students who have started or finished another degree
- Delivery mode and venue
- Listed as in person (Campus Sant Cugat) on UIC's entrance-exams page; whether candidates outside Catalonia may still sit online is unconfirmed.In 2026 Catalonia residents sat in person and everyone else online
- Cost of living
- €850–€1,400 / month in BarcelonaAn IvyTest estimate: UIC publishes no cost-of-living figure
- Scholarships
- Becas Nemesio (BEA, Fundación Nemesio Díez): 100% of first-year tuition and up to 80% from the second yearFor new students with a matrícula de honor average in Bachillerato and a family taxed in Spain or Andorra; applied for separately, through the admissions portal
Checked against 11 official sources, most recently on 12 October 2026. Read the full UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination guide →
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Built from official sources
Every section is developed directly from UIC Barcelona's published syllabus and official exam criteria, cross-referenced against multiple years of past-paper data for accuracy.
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Each resource is reviewed by subject-matter specialists and validated against the latest published exam criteria before release.
Revised every cycle
When UIC Barcelona updates its syllabus or exam structure, the guide is reviewed and revised to match before the next admissions cycle.
What's included
4 tested areas. Every topic UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination can test.
20 mapped topics across the UIC Barcelona Medicine Entrance Examination syllabus, aligned to the official UIC Barcelona regulations.
Biology
5 topics- The Chemistry of Living Things
- The Cell as the Basis of Life
- Bioenergetics
- Reproduction and Inheritance
- Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology
Chemistry
5 topics- Structure of Matter and the Periodic Table
- Chemical Bonding and Properties of Matter
- Stoichiometry and Chemical Reactions
- Equilibria, Acids-Bases, and Redox
- Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
Mathematics
5 topics- Algebra and Number Sets
- Functions
- Geometry and Trigonometry
- Logic and Mathematical Reasoning
- Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorics
Physics
5 topics- Measures and Kinematics
- Dynamics
- Fluid Mechanics and Optics
- Thermodynamics
- Electrostatics and Electrodynamics
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Yes. UIC Barcelona delivers Medicine in Spanish and runs its admission process in the same language.
Yes. Every Spanish private medical school in our catalogue runs its own written knowledge test, typically biology and chemistry, often with physics, mathematics or English added. Format, length and delivery (online or on campus) differ by school; this guide covers the one your target university runs.
Not at any school that publishes a rule. CEU Cardenal Herrera, Universidad de Navarra, CEU San Pablo, CEU Fernando III and UIC Barcelona all state that a wrong answer costs nothing. Alfonso X el Sabio and Católica de Valencia publish no marking rule at all, so confirm theirs directly.
Yes, it's the 2027 edition, built from the latest admission rules UIC Barcelona 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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