Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD)

About the course

A five-year (10-semester), 300-credit undivided programme taught in English that leads to the Doctor Medicinae Dentariae (DMD) title, moving from basic sciences to clinical dental training.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• The university assesses the Irish Leaving Certificate individually and does not publish a fixed Irish requirement. Contact admissions to confirm. Applicants must be over 18, and you cannot apply if you failed Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or English in your final year of school. Previous study of Biology, Chemistry and Physics is recommended.
• Online entrance exam. The written test on CooSpace, monitored over Zoom, lasts 80 minutes, with 20 multiple-choice questions each in Biology, Chemistry and English. The oral is an interview of about 20 minutes over Zoom with a university professor: two Biology and two Chemistry questions, in English. You can sit a maximum of two exams per application period.
• You need good English, and English is tested in the entrance exam.

Working in Ireland afterwards

A dental degree from an EU member state that is listed in the EU Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC, as amended) can be recognised automatically by the Dental Council of Ireland. To get this, you provide a certificate from your home country’s competent authority confirming the degree meets the Directive’s minimum training conditions, plus proof of English-language proficiency. EU dental degrees that do not qualify for automatic recognition may instead be assessed under the Directive.

How to apply

1. Apply on DreamApplyRegister at apply.u-szeged.hu. For 2026 entry, applications ran from 1 December 2025 to 15 June 2026, first come, first served.
2. Pay and upload documentsPay the EUR 300 fee first (an unpaid invoice blocks submission), then upload your certified school diploma and transcripts, passport or ID, CV, medical certificate, birth certificate and motivation letter.
3. Sit the online entrance examBook an exam date (late February to end of June in 2026): an 80-minute written Biology, Chemistry and English test, then a Zoom interview.
4. Accept and enrolIf you get an offer, pay the first-semester fee (EUR 8,000 including a EUR 1,600 deposit in 2026/27) and arrange to start in September.

Costs

• EUR 8,000 for the first semester (EUR 6,400 tuition plus a EUR 1,600 deposit) and EUR 7,600 for each of semesters 2 to 10, so EUR 15,600 in first year and EUR 15,200 a year after that. The university says the fee may change each September. The fee is charged to EU students too, as this is a self-funded English-language programme. There is a one-off, non-refundable EUR 300 combined application and entrance exam fee, covering up to three health science programmes and up to two exam attempts.

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