Medical Programme (MD)

12 semesters, title awarded: Doctor of Medicine

The Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School admits close to 200 students per year to the English Language Programme.

The first two years serve as the foundation of basic medical knowledge. From the third year training is extended with regular clinical practice, where students intensively take part in the work of the clinical departments and the teaching hospitals.

The Faculty’s excellent scientific laboratories furthermore offer those students a wide range of opportunities who would like to join high standard scientific research activities.

In the last two semesters – the internship year - students perform clinical rotations of 40 weeks, proving that they are ready to start their carreer as a physician.

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Entry Requirements

1. Applicants are required to be over the age of 18 in the year of application (by December 31).

2. Applications are accepted from graduates of accredited high schools or colleges/universities. According to the decision of the Admission Committee of the Faculty, students who have failed in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or English Language in the final year of their high school studies are not entitled to apply.

3. You are also eligible to complete your online application and sit for an entrance examination if you are in your final year but have not received your School Leaving Certificate or Diploma yet. In this case, you must present proof that you are attending high school.

4. Applicants are required to sit for an entrance examination. Applicants are allowed to participate in a maximum of two examinations in one application period if the chance is offered by the Faculty.

5. Holders of the following degrees can be exempted from sitting for the entrance examination:

GCE A2 levels

Students are required to achieve grade A in three natural science subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics) and English language.

Predicted A2 level grades of the second semester are considered for conditional acceptance.

GCE AS/O level grades are not considered to meet exemption requirements.

IB Diploma

Students are required to achieve grade 5 in two natural science subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics) and English language.

In your final year, predicted grades of the second semester are considered for conditional acceptance.

IB Certificates are not considered to meet exemption requirements.

BSc Degree

First Class Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural, Biomedical, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and proof of sufficient English language proficiency.

Transfer from other universities

Students who have successfully pursued medical studies in English language at other accredited universities can apply for admission without being obliged to take an entrance examination.

Preconditions of transfer are set by the Faculty.

For details please read the Academic Regulations of the Faculty here.

Admission to an upper year might be possible if subjects of previous studies (not older than 5 years) are identical or at least 75% similar to the curriculum of the University of Szeged.

Please note that according to the regulations of the Medical School, „transfer is possible solely if the student obtains at least half of the credit points assigned to the 6-year medical program at the diploma-issuing institution, the University of Szeged”.On the basis of this rule transfer can be granted to maximum 3rd year of the medical programme.

Transfer students are subject to complete Credit Transfer procedure. The evaluation procedure might take up to 3 weeks. Decision making is the competence of the Credit Transfer Committee of the Faculty after applicants fully completed their online application.

Detailed information on the relevant curriculum and the study plans is available here.

Medicine in German language

The six-year Medical Programme is also available in German Language.

For further information please check our German Language website.