Jagiellonian University Medicine cut-off scores 2023–2026

UJ's admission statistics give three figures for each year: the minimum the Rector set, the score of the last candidate qualified in the first round, and the average result of those admitted. They print a threshold only for the first round; the second- and third-round columns are empty for Medicine in English in all three years.

Read together, they show two different kinds of year. In 2023 and 2024 the last qualified candidate scored exactly the minimum, 57 and then 61, and enrolment ended below the 125 places (114 and 103 students): the list ran down to the minimum itself. In 2025 the Rector set the minimum at 40, the lowest of the three years, yet the first round stopped at 63.00, 23 points above it, and 126 students enrolled for 130 places: that year, the places decided where it stopped.

With 120 places offered, the 120th result is where the first round would stop if every qualified candidate took their place: 78. It is a clean break: positions 108 to 120 all scored 78, and the next candidate scored 77. So in 2026, 78 or more put a candidate inside the first 120, and 77 left them just outside.

That is not yet the published threshold. A qualified candidate who does not enrol frees a place, which the list's notice says can then go to the reserve list, so the score of the last candidate qualified can end below the 120th result.

The results run from 96 down to 0. Most of the field sat between 50 and 90, with the middle of those at or above the minimum at 69. Below 50 the list thins out quickly: 44 results between 1 and 49, then the 128 at 0.00.

Applications rose every year: 402 in 2023, 497 in 2024 and 558 in 2025, while places went from 125 to 130. UJ counts an applicant as a paid application in any round, so these are applications, not candidates who sat the exam. The 2026 first-round list ranks 635 candidates, but the 2026 statistics are not out, so the like-for-like count is not yet known.

Under the Senate's recruitment rules, the Rector sets a minimum result for each programme, at the latest on the day the first ranking list is published, and it applies in every round: a candidate below it is refused even if places are left. For Medicine in English it was 57 in 2023, 61 in 2024, 40 in 2025 and 50 in 2026.

It is a floor, not a forecast. In 2023 and 2024 it was where the list stopped; in 2025 the list stopped 23 points above it. Results are ranked to two decimal places, on a scale of 0 to 100.

Not yet. Three different numbers get called the cut-off, and they are not the same thing. The Rector's minimum (50 in 2026) is the floor below which nobody is admitted. The round-1 threshold, which UJ publishes after the recruitment, is the score of the last candidate qualified in the first round (63.00 in 2025). The 120th result (78 in 2026) is a position on the list, one per place offered.

If the first 120 all take their places, the 2026 round-1 threshold will be 78. Places they leave can go down the reserve list, so the figure UJ publishes can be lower than 78, and it cannot be below the minimum of 50.

The 2027/28 exam is on 5 June 2027, online, in the same format: 100 questions in 180 minutes on Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Logic and Ethics, ranked on a result out of 100. The Senate's upper limit is 120 places, down from 130. A result in the high 70s was enough to sit inside the first 120 in 2026, and 63 was enough in the 2025 first round, on a different paper.

Because the paper changes every year, the safer target is the one you can measure: your result on full, timed 100-question mocks, and how it moves. A steady result clear of the high 70s on a paper of this format puts you where the 2026 list's first 120 were.

The 2023–2025 figures are copied from the row 'kierunek lekarski, program w języku angielskim, Polacy i cudzoziemcy' of UJ's statistics for programmes in foreign languages (6 October 2025): places, applicants across all rounds, applicants per place, students enrolled, the minimum set by the Rector, the average result of those admitted, and the real threshold, defined there as the result of the last person qualified for admission, for rounds 1 to 3.

The 2026 figures are counted from the first-round ranking list published on UJ's results page for undergraduate programmes: every row's position and result, checked to run from 1 to 635 without a gap and in descending order. The page shows counts, positions and bands only; the account numbers on the list are not reproduced. A copy of the list sent to IvyTest was checked byte for byte against UJ's own file.

Both are Jagiellonian University's own documents, read on 21 October 2026.