San Raffaele International MD Program cut-off scores 2026: EU and non-EU

San Raffaele runs two separate calls, each with its own test sessions, ranking and places: 86 for EU citizens and 64 for non-EU citizens. Both rank on a candidate's best score across the sessions they sat, out of 60, with no minimum. Each list is read at two points: its last place in the first round, and the furthest position an enrolment notice has opened since, as places were turned down.

The EU call adds a step the non-EU one does not have. After the ranking list of 598 candidates came out on 27 March 2026, every candidate had to declare between 9 and 22 June whether they wanted a place; the 360 who did make up the Definitive Ranking List of 26 June, and only they can be offered one. The other 238 dropped out, including all eight candidates at the top of the ranking and 50 of its first 86.

So positions on the two EU lists are not the same thing. The table shows where each definitive position stood on the original ranking: the 86th place, the last of the first round, had been 182nd, and the 183rd, reached in October, had been 334th.

Plotted against position, the non-EU list sits above both EU lists from the first places down: its 64th scored 48.75, while the EU ranking's 64th scored 47.25 and the Definitive Ranking List's 43.00. The Definitive Ranking List falls fastest, because its strongest candidates had already left the full ranking when they did not declare.

The two full lists, before any declaration, compare like for like: every candidate who sat at least one session. The non-EU field scored higher across the board, with a median of 40.75 against 36.25, and 134 non-EU candidates reached 45 against 107 on the larger EU list. Both had about 40 candidates at 50 or more.

San Raffaele's OFA lists give, for each candidate, the number of correct answers in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, each out of at most 6, and flag an OFA, an extra learning requirement, for any subject with 2 or fewer right. Chemistry stands out on both lists. On the EU Definitive Ranking List 203 of 360 candidates were flagged in Chemistry, with an average of 2.33 correct; on the non-EU list, 128 of 391, with 3.23.

Scores move in quarter points, and ties sit right on the lines. The EU 86th place shared 41.00 with the 87th; the EU notices of October stopped inside a tie of eight candidates at 35.00, positions 178 to 185. On the non-EU list eleven candidates shared 48.75, positions 63 to 73, across the 64th place, and seven shared 46.50, positions 100 to 106.

The call orders equal scores by the logic and problem-solving questions first, then reading comprehension, then Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, and finally the younger candidate. A headline score alone does not say which side of the line a candidate fell on.

Not as a final figure. On the EU side it is the score at the furthest position a notice has opened, on 15 October 2026, with enrolment open until 20 October, and the list may still move. On the non-EU side, 46.50 is the furthest position of the last notice IvyTest recorded before enrolment closed on 21 October. San Raffaele does not publish the last score actually admitted.

What the lists do settle is the shape of 2026/27: a first-round EU place took 41.00 on the Definitive Ranking List, and a non-EU place 48.75, and candidates well below both still received offers as places were turned down.

San Raffaele had not published its 2027/28 calls on 21 October 2026. In 2026/27 the test was 60 questions in 80 minutes, entirely in English: 36 on logic, problem solving and reading comprehension and 24 on Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, scored +1, −0.25 and 0, with the best score of up to two sessions counting. If the format holds, sitting both sessions is worth it, and so is the science block: Chemistry is where the field lost most.

For EU candidates the declaration of intention matters as much as the score: the list that offers places is made only of those who declared, so a score that looks short on the ranking list can be well placed on the definitive one.

Every list was read in full from the PDFs on San Raffaele's rankings pages: each row's position and score, checked to run from the first to the last position without a gap and in descending order. The EU Definitive Ranking List was matched to the EU ranking list by the anonymous code both print, to find each definitive position's place on the original ranking; the OFA lists were read for each candidate's correct answers per science and OFA flags. Notices were read on the rankings pages on the dates given.

The page shows counts, positions, bands and notices only; candidate codes are not reproduced. The EU Definitive Ranking List and the file named 'Graduatoria definitiva' on the page carry the same 360 rows.

All are Vita-Salute San Raffaele University's own documents.