Cattolica Medicine cut-off scores 2026: EU and non-EU rankings

Cattolica ranks its two quotas separately: 40 places for EU citizens and equivalent, 70 for non-EU citizens residing abroad. Each list is read at three points. The first list ends at the last of the places. When a winner does not pay the first instalment, the place goes to the next on the list by a direct offer, with about a week to pre-enrol. Once direct offers stopped, the notices changed: they asked the next positions to say, without commitment, whether they still wanted a place, and assigned any left in ranking order to those who replied.

Plotted against position, the two lists fall almost on top of each other: the 40th scored 58.00 on the EU list and 57.00 on the non-EU list, the 100th 53.75 and 52.50. What differs is where each list's places end. The EU list stopped early, at the 40th, and needed 49 more positions of direct offers; the non-EU list started 30 positions further down and needed 60 more.

Each list ranks about 710 candidates, and their shapes match closely: half scored below about 43 out of 65, about one in four scored 50 or more (172 EU, 163 non-EU), and only 28 and 21 reached 60. Twenty EU and 26 non-EU candidates fell below the 20-point floor, two of them below zero after the −0.25 penalties.

Scores move in quarter points, so ties are common. On the first EU list the 40th place sat inside a tie: positions 40 to 43 all scored 58.00, so the order among them was set by the call's tie-break. The call ranks equal scores by the logical reasoning questions first, then Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, general culture and the ethics and religious culture questions, and finally the younger candidate first.

The same happened further down: EU positions 88 to 92 shared 54.50, where the last direct offer stopped at the 89th, and non-EU positions 125 to 130 shared 51.25. A headline score alone does not say which side of a line a candidate fell on.

Below 20 out of 65 no place is offered, whatever is left. In 2026/27 that applied to 20 EU and 26 non-EU candidates. Above the floor, the lists also flag additional learning obligations (OFA), set when a candidate answers fewer than 4 of 18 Biology, 2 of 12 Chemistry, 1 of 4 Physics or 1 of 4 Mathematics questions correctly. 50 EU and 37 non-EU rows carry at least one; none of the candidates within the 40 and 70 places of the first lists does.

It is the firmest figure available, not a confirmed one. A direct offer says a place was there for that position; it does not say the candidate took it. Calls for interest go further down, to 51.75 on the EU list and 48.25 on the non-EU list, but Cattolica does not say who answered them or which of them were given a place, and EU Notice 9's places are assigned from 26 October 2026.

So the honest reading of 2026/27 is a range: on the EU list, 54.50 was enough for an offer and 51.75 kept a candidate in reach into late October; on the non-EU list, 51.25 and 48.25.

The 2027/28 test is on 17 March 2027 (extra sessions on 18 March if needed), online, in the same format: 65 questions in 65 minutes (20 logical reasoning, 18 Biology, 12 Chemistry, 4 Physics, 4 Mathematics, 2 general culture, 5 ethics and religious culture), +1, −0.25 and 0, with the same floor of 20 and the same 40 EU and 70 non-EU places. The physics syllabus in Annex A was rewritten. The EU ranking is due on 7 April and the non-EU ranking on 14 April 2027.

Because the paper changes every year, use these figures as the level of the 2026 field rather than a line to beat: a steady score in the mid-50s out of 65 on full, timed mocks in this format is where both 2026 lists were offering places.

Both final rankings were read in full from the PDFs on Cattolica's Rankings and waiting lists page: every row's position and score, checked to run from the first to the last position without a gap and in descending order, and whether the row carries an OFA flag. Each notice was read whole for its date, its kind (places offered or a call for interest), the positions it named, the places freed and its deadlines, and the scores at those positions were then taken from the ranking.

The page shows counts, positions, bands and notices only; the candidate codes on the lists are not reproduced. Rankings for cycles before 2026/27 are not published on the page any more and were not found at the same address pattern.

All are Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore's own documents, read on 21 October 2026.