Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme - open for applications for the 2023/2024 academic year

Application platform:

https://apply.stipendiumhungaricum.hu

Mission of the Programme

The Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme was launched in 2013 by the Hungarian Government. The core mission of the programme is to increase the number of foreign students in Hungary and to encourage Hungarian higher education institutions to attract top foreign students.The programme is based on bilateral educational cooperation agreements signed between the Ministries responsible for education in the sending countries/territories and Hungary or between institutions. Thousands of students from all around the world apply for higher educational studies in Hungary each year. The number of Stipendium Hungaricum applicants is continuously increasing as well as the number of available scholarship places. The Programme is managed by Tempus Public Foundation.

We are pleased to announce that Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School is participating in the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme in the academic year 2023/2024

In order to find out whether the Medical Programme (undivided/one-tier/full degree master studies) is supported by the Stipendium Hungaricum Programme in your country, please check the following site:

https://stipendiumhungaricum.hu/partners/

For further details regarding the application procedure, documents, deadlines, please visit:

https://stipendiumhungaricum.hu/apply/

Application requirements

1. Students already studying at the self-financed English Language Programmes can also apply for the scholarship. Please note that the Faculty can support the application and issue the "Recommendation Letter" for those students only, whose cumulative, corrected sum average (“összesített korrigált kreditindex”) is higher than the students’ average performance in the particular study programme (“szakátlag”) in the first semester of the academic year 2022/2023.

Information on your academic performance will be automatically provided by the Faculty in the second half of February 2023. In order to get your ”Recommendation Letter” and "Transcript" please contact the Foreign Students’ Secretariat.

2. High school graduates are also welcome to apply to the programme. The main entry requirements are good English language skills and the successful completion of the entrance examination. Please note that students who have failed in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or English Language in the final year of their high school studies are not eligible to apply.

Application documents should be uploaded to Dream Apply at the relevant tasks!

Minimum level of English Language proficiency required

All teaching at the University of Szeged is carried out in English (with the exception of Latin and Hungarian language teaching) and tutors must be convinced that you have sufficient fluency in written and spoken English to cope with your courses from the start. Therefore, all non-native English-speaking applicants must satisfy one of the following requirements:

TOEFL iBT: overall score of 66

TOEIC : 510 points

Entrance examination - special conditions for scholarship applicants (1st year)

The Entrance Examination consists of a written and an oral part in Biology, Chemistry (including Organic, Inorganic and Biochemistry) and English Language.

Exemption from the entrance examination based on previous studies (IB, GCE A2 level, BSc) is not possible.

Please note that those applicants will receive an invitation to the oral entrance examination who reach at least 50 % at the written examination (in every subject separately).

Date of the examination: To be announced later via e-mail!