University of Pécs Admissions Guide

The Medical School quotes Medicine and Dentistry tuition in US dollars, per year, split into a larger first and a smaller second semester. These are the figures on its Tuition Fees & Costs page for students starting in 2027/28; the page gives the same annual fee for each year of study.

Admission to General Medicine and Dentistry rests on the entrance exam alone: the Medical School says the decision is "based solely on your performance in the entrance examination", so high-school grades decide nothing once you are eligible to sit it. To apply you need:

Not as a route into Medicine: Pécs admits only through its entrance exam, and says a preparatory course 'is not a requirement'. What it offers is preparation. The Medical School's International Studies Center in Pécs runs preparatory programmes in English and the sciences, in stages of 400 lessons, ending with an ECL language exam: 5 months from February (€4,200), 10 months from September (€6,500) or 15 months from February (€9,300), plus a €150 registration fee and a €100 application fee. Even after one, Pécs's decision on acceptance 'is solely based on your performance at the entrance examination'.

Applying from Norway: there is no snitt, since Pécs does not consider high-school grades. Norwegian students also have the ONH 1+5 (Medicine) and 1+4 (Dentistry) programmes with Oslo Nye Høyskole: students recruited by ONH spend their first year in Oslo, then a summer course in Pécs, and join the second year in Pécs. Eligibility and admission for that route are ONH's.

Pécs has one intake a year, in September, and admits continuously: it says that the earlier you apply, the more places it can offer, so places can fill before the deadline.

General Medicine is a six-year Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) taught in English, with 180 places a year: ten semesters of pre-clinical and clinical study, then a full year of clinical rotations. Classes average 25 to 30 hours a week, 350 to 420 a semester. The Medical School says its diploma is accepted in every EU country and several others, among them Norway, the USA, Canada and Israel.

The main scholarship is Stipendium Hungaricum, the Hungarian government's programme run by Tempus Public Foundation. In Pécs it covers the English-taught General Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and both Biotechnology degrees, and it pays: no tuition fee, a monthly HUF 43,700 towards living costs for 12 months a year, a dormitory place or HUF 40,000 a month towards housing, and medical insurance. Hungarian citizens, dual citizens included, cannot apply.

You apply to the scholarship first, then to Pécs as a scholarship applicant, quoting your scholarship ID. Pécs nominates the applicants whose exam is acceptable, but Tempus makes the award, and a Stipendium Hungaricum applicant has one exam attempt instead of three. The Medical School also lists a Scholarship for Christian Young People and a Scholarship Program for the Hungarian Diaspora.

In Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2027, the University of Pécs is in the 1001–1200 band worldwide; in THE's Medical and Health subject table (the 2026 edition, the latest), it is in the 401–500 band. THE counts 16,523 students and 15.6 students per member of staff.

Rankings say little about a medical degree's day-to-day value. The facts Pécs publishes: its M.D. is accepted across the EU and in Norway, the USA, Canada and Israel, and 3,500 students from 67 countries study at the Medical School. It publishes no acceptance rate and no pass mark, so any figure quoted elsewhere is an estimate.

Pécs does not publish one. It lists 180 places a year in General Medicine and 60 in Dentistry, but no number of applicants, so an acceptance rate cannot be worked out from its own figures. What it does publish is how places go: admission is continuous from 1 November, 'the earlier you apply, the more spots we can offer', and the decision rests only on the entrance exam, which you may sit up to three times.

r/UniversityOfPecs is a Reddit community for applicants and students of the University of Pécs. IvyTest runs it: a place to ask about the entrance exam, the interview, fees, housing and life in Pécs. The university's own admissions pages remain the source for dates and fees.