Entrance Examination/Interview

Admission requirements - medical and health science programs

An entrance examination is compulsory for students applying to the following programs:

• Basic Medicine Course
• Medicine
• Dentistry
• Pharmacy

The entrance exam consists of two parts:

• a written test (comprised of multiple-choice questions, definitions, calculations, etc.) in Biology (compulsory for all) and Chemistry or Physics (the applicant's choice). Each written test takes 50 minutes.
• an oral exam in Biology and Physics or Chemistry

Possible results of the exam: 

• admitted (to first year)
• admitted to Basic Medicine Course (preparatory program)
• rejected
• in certain cases the exam committee can offer acceptance to a different study program.

The overall exam performance is taken into consideration and the scores of different parts of the exam are for internal use only and not to be communicated to the applicants. 

An entrance interview is compulsory in case of the following programs:

• BSc in Physiotherapy
• BSc in Public Health
• BSc Nurse
• BSc Dietetics
• MSc in Public Health
• MSc in Molecular Biology
• MSc in Complex Rehabilitation
• MSc in Health Social Work
• MA Social Work and Social Economy

Transfer students
As part of the oral interview the committee tests the English communicational skills and the motivation of the applicant. The language of the entrance examination and interview is English.

Entrance exam dates for medical programs (download in pdf)

For further information about the exact venue, starting time and fees please contact the hosting representatives. 

The UD reserves the right to cancel the exam in case of insufficient number of applicants.

For Stipendium Hungaricum / SCY / Diaspora scholarship applicants:

If you are a scholarship applicant and not interested in self-financed studies then please do not refer to this list below as these are mostly fee-paying exam dates.

There will be dedicated scholarship exam days, so your exam/interview date will be sent to you by email with all details (please check your spam box too!). These exams can be expected in April-May 2022 and we try to inform you about your exam date two-weeks in advance.

updated: 13 January 2022

Admission requirements - non-medical programs

For the non-medical programs of the University of Debrecen, the entrance exam is English and professional subjects dependent on the candidate's program.
In exceptional cases, applicants with outstanding grades of previous studies may be accepted for the first year directly. Students, whose examination results or grades of previous studies are not good enough to start the first year of a BSc program directly, may be admitted to the Foundation Programs.

Entrance examination dates for non-medical BSc programs

13th January, 2022

24th February, 2022

24th March, 2022

21st April, 2022

19th May, 2022

2nd June, 2022

16th June, 2022

30th June, 2022

 
 
Applicants with a University Degree

In case of applicants with a bachelor/master degree, the University examines the possibility of admission with full or partial exemption from the entrance examination on the basis of the certificates and/or other documents submitted. In such cases, an obligatory interview is still conducted prior to registration.