Sigmund Freud University Admissions Guide
Everything you need to apply to Sigmund Freud University: entrance requirements, application deadlines, tuition and cost of living, and the SFU Medicine Admission Test.
At a glance
Sigmund Freud University in brief
- Entrance exam
- SFU Medicine Admission Test
- Language of instruction
- German
- Interview required
- Yes
- Tuition
- €28,358 / year
- Application deadline
- Provisional for 2027/28: mirrors the 2026/27 window (online application 7 January to 10 August 2026, three testing blocks, places awarded after each block); next cycle's dates not yet published
- Subjects tested
- Biology
Source: Sigmund Freud University Admissions · Verified 28 Sep 2026
Admission test
SFU Medicine Admission Test
Sigmund Freud University requires the SFU Medicine Admission Test for admission. Here are the essential figures.
- Total Questions (est.)
- 30
- Main Section
- 1
- Maximum Score
- 30
Questions, sections and maximum score count Biology only. Not counted, as no size is published: Cognitive Ability.
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What the exam tests
- Biology
1 tested area · SFU Medicine Admission Test
Application
Application requirements
- Entrance exam
- Required
- Biology, Cognitive Ability
- Computer-based · Vienna campus
- Interview
- Required
- Scholarship
- Separate application required
- Application fee
- €700
Fees
SFU medicine fees: tuition per semester and in total
Medicine at SFU Vienna is two degree programmes with the same fee: the Bachelor in Human Medicine (6 semesters) and the Master in Human Medicine (6 semesters). Both cost €14,179 a semester, the Bachelor rate applying "from winter semester 2026". SFU states no rate for later years, so the total below is IvyTest's arithmetic at today's rates, not a promise by the university.
Human Medicine at SFU Vienna: costs at the rates from winter semester 2026
| Item | Amount | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor tuition | €14,179 a semester | 6 semesters: €85,074 |
| Master tuition | €14,179 a semester | 6 semesters: €85,074 |
| Total, 12 semesters | €170,148 | IvyTest's arithmetic at today's rates |
| Admission procedure fee | €700 once | Not credited to tuition; €600 back if you withdraw 10 working days before your first date |
| Science preparation course | €850 | Compulsory without 4 weekly hours of school Biology (2026: 17 to 28 August) |
| Medical terminology / Latin course | €480 | Compulsory without the small Latinum or 10 weekly hours of Latin; semesters 1 to 4 |
You can pay per semester (due 5 working days after the invoice), in 6 monthly instalments (2% fee), in two quarterly instalments a semester (1%) or yearly in September with 1% off. Through a scholarship programme with the Vienna Healthcare Group (WIGEV), SFU covers the full Bachelor and Master tuition for 10 Human Medicine students, who in return finish in the minimum time, train as specialists at WIGEV and then work there for five more years (12 years in all). It requires financial need: a gross family income of at most €50,000 with one parent liable for support, €60,000 with two, plus €12,000 for each further child. For 2026/27 applications ran from 7 January to 20 May 2026.
Structure
Bachelor and Master: how the degree is built
At SFU the route to practising medicine runs through two degrees. The Bachelor in Human Medicine takes 3 years (180 ECTS) and ends with a Bachelor of Science in Medical Sciences (BScMed). The Master in Human Medicine takes another 3 years (180 ECTS) and ends with the Dr. med. univ., the basis for specialist or general-practice training. Teaching is in German, in Vienna.
Progression is set out in SFU's rules: graduates of SFU's Bachelor in the Human Medicine track enter the Master "without a further admission procedure". Graduates of the Dentistry track or of other universities get in only if places are free and equivalence is shown. You choose the track in the online application, and cannot switch during the Bachelor.
The Master is clinical: 23 weeks of clerkships in its first two years, plus electives (Famulaturen) and the clinical-practical year (KPJ) in semesters 5 and 6. Clerkships run at partner hospitals: the Vienna Healthcare Group (Klinik Favoriten, Floridsdorf, Hietzing, Landstraße, Ottakring and Penzing), the Barmherzige Brüder hospital in Vienna, Vinzenz Gruppe hospitals (Göttlicher Heiland, Barmherzige Schwestern, Orthopädisches Spital Speising, St. Josef) and the AUVA trauma centre in Meidling.
- Master year 1: 7 weeks of clerkships, among them surgery, dermatology, gynaecology, ENT, internal medicine, ophthalmology, radiology and urology.
- Master year 2: 16 weeks, among them anaesthesia, neurology, orthopaedics and trauma surgery, paediatrics, pathology and psychiatry, plus a 10-week clerkship in internal medicine or surgery.
- The Master thesis is presented at the faculty's Science Day.
Curriculum
The Bachelor curriculum, semester by semester
The Bachelor is built from modules (preclinical and clinical basics) and skills lines that run through all six semesters: evidence-based medicine and public health, professional competence and early patient contact, including compulsory paramedic training. The Bachelor thesis is assembled from the work of the evidence-based medicine line.
Bachelor in Human Medicine at SFU (curriculum from winter semester 2025/26): focus by semester
| Semester | Modules (selection) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Foundations of life (Biology, Physics, Chemistry), general anatomy, the organism and harmful agents, interfaces |
| 2 | Sense organs, locomotor system, blood, immune system and infection |
| 3 | Heart and circulation, respiration, endocrine systems, metabolism; paramedic training |
| 4 | Digestion and metabolism, kidney and urinary tract, sexuality and reproduction; blood sampling, OSCE |
| 5 | Nervous system, mental health and illness, growth, development and ageing; compulsory clinical elective |
| 6 | Diversity in medicine, chronic disease and pain, pharmacology and toxicology, dissection course; compulsory clinical elective |
The Master's first four semesters are clinical system blocks with cross-cutting subjects such as radiology, laboratory medicine, pathology and clinical pharmacology, then the KPJ. The full curriculum is a PDF on SFU's site.
Application
Applying to SFU medicine: steps, documents and deadline
For 2026/27 the online application ran from 7 January to 10 August 2026; the 2027/28 window is not published yet. You may take part in the admission procedure once a year. The steps:
- Online application, choosing the track (Human Medicine or Dentistry), every document as a PDF.
- Documents: school-leaving certificate (may follow by the start of studies), the last two annual school reports, ID, proof of 4 weekly hours of upper-secondary Biology, a Europass CV with evidence, and the study-specific task.
- German at C1: not needed for native speakers with Austrian, German or Swiss citizenship or with German in the Matura or Abitur; otherwise ÖSD C1, telc C1 Hochschule, Goethe C1, DSH 3, DSD II, TestDaF (TDN 4) or the University of Vienna language centre at C1/2. Very good English as well.
- Submitting the application makes the €700 fee due; only then are you assigned a test day by email, and that day is binding.
- Test day in Vienna (cognitive abilities test and Biology), then a Zoom interview for everyone who passed the cognitive test.
- An offer comes with the training contract, to be signed within 14 days. Enrolment is in person in July or August.
Dates
SFU medicine dates: testing blocks and results
In 2026 there were three testing blocks: 23 to 27 March and 7 to 10 April, 8 to 19 June and 8 to 9 July, 10 to 14 August. Places go out after each block: in Human Medicine 155 after the first, 50 after the second and 15 after the third. The 2027 dates are not set yet; the admission test guide will be updated as soon as SFU publishes them.
Experiences
What the SFU test day actually is
IvyTest cannot verify personal accounts, so there are none here. What SFU itself says: the cognitive test and the Biology check run on one day on SFU's computers at Freudplatz, the day's schedule arrives by email a week before, and individual results are not disclosed. The guide walks through the test day, and the practice sets cover both parts of the test.
- The test day in the guide →
- SFU admission test practice, with answers →
- The Biology syllabus by Buselmaier page →
Sources Studiengang Bachelor Humanmedizin · Studiengang Master Humanmedizin · Informationen zu Aufnahme und Zulassung (Stand Oktober 2025, PDF) · Zulassungsordnung MED 2025 (PDF) · Curriculum Studiengang Bachelor (BMED25, PDF) · Zusatzangebote / Vorbereitungskurse · SFU Finanzwesen: Zahlungsmodalitäten
Student life
Living in Vienna as a medical student
Sigmund Freud University's medical campus is in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district. Its Bachelor and Master stages are priced and billed separately, both by semester, so budget for both stages of the programme rather than one flat annual figure.
FAQ
Sigmund Freud University admissions FAQ
Yes. The programme and the admission test are both in German, and SFU requires German at C1 level.
No. The MedAT is Austria's public-university entrance test. The private universities in our catalogue each run their own separate admission test, with different subjects, timing and format from the MedAT and from each other.
Yes, at all three. The written test comes first, then an interview for candidates who pass it or, at Paracelsus, who rank among the top 405 nationally. Format varies by school: Danube's interview, for example, has an MMI part followed by a medicine and natural-sciences part.
No national licensing exam. Austria's pathway runs through registration and supervised training: a general Basisausbildung period, then either a roughly three-year general-practice track or a five-to-six-year specialist track, administered through the Austrian Medical Chamber, ending in the right to practise.
Yes, it's the 2027 edition, built from the latest admission rules Sigmund Freud University has published. Where a 2027 date or detail isn't published yet, confirm it with the university before you rely on it.
Yes. Sigmund Freud University-format practice sessions are available inside the simulator and align with the guide section by section.
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