Charles Uni: Third Faculty of Medicine Admissions Guide

LF3 charges tuition in Czech crowns. Both the tuition and the application fee rise for students starting in 2027/28.

You need secondary education completed with a school-leaving examination and the two-part entrance exam: a written test of 60 questions (Biology 30, Chemistry 30, one correct answer of four), then, for those above the dean's threshold, a 10-minute interview scored 12 to 62 on the reading of a popular-science text, your general overview and your motivation. The procedure is in English, and the admissions record asks for no separate English certificate; but LF3 expects you to use Czech by the end of your second year, for work with patients.

After admission, send by post your high-school leaving certificate, verified and authenticated for your country (apostille or superlegalisation), and an official transcript with all grades and hours, translated into Czech or English: as early as possible, and at the latest on your enrolment day, because you are only officially admitted once they arrive.

Apply online from 1 November 2026, choosing in the application whether you sit the faculty's own exam in Prague or apply through an agency, and pay the CZK 2,000 fee. The invitation to the exam comes about a month before it.

LF3 has taught General Medicine in English since 1991/92, in parallel with the Czech programme, to the MUDr. degree, with extended teaching in preventive health care. Its integrated curriculum, reformed after Western European and North American models, runs in three cycles: years 1 and 2, Basic Biomedical Sciences, in modules such as Structure and Function of the Human Body, Cell Biology and Genetics, Biophysics and Informatics, and Needs of Patients; years 3 and 4, Principles of Clinical Medicine, with clinical propaedeutics and basic clinical problems; years 5 and 6, Clinical Preparation in internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, paediatrics and preventive medicine.

The clinical base is mainly the University Hospital Královské Vinohrady in Prague 10, with teaching also at the Psychiatric Centre Prague, Bulovka, Thomayer and Homolka hospitals, the Institute for Mother and Child Care, the Central Military Hospital and the National Institute of Public Health. Students keep a clinical-skills logbook from the European EUROSKILLS project, and the faculty is accredited by the US Department of Education for US students.

LF3 publishes its calendar for each academic year. For 2026/27 new first-year students enrolled in Prague on 1 September 2026 (or at the welcoming camp in Dobronice), the matriculation oath was on 7 October 2026 in the Magna Aula of the Carolinum, and the student scientific conference is on 25 May 2027. LF3 also runs a Premedical Course from January to May 2027, in biology, physics, chemistry, Czech and medical terminology.

Rankings measure Charles University as a whole, not one faculty: QS and Times Higher Education both rank the university, and every one of its five medical faculties awards the same MUDr. degree. In THE's World University Rankings 2027 Charles University is in the 451–500 band, and in THE's Medical and Health table (the 2026 edition, the latest) in the 301–400 band. QS's tables could not be read, so their figures are not given here.

IvyTest publishes no testimonials. LF3 has its own page in which students and graduates write to applicants, and an interactive map of its students by nationality. r/CharlesThirdFaculty is a Reddit community for LF3 applicants and students, run by IvyTest; dates and rules come only from the faculty's own pages.