Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)

About the course

A five-year (10-semester), 300-credit master’s-level programme taught in English that leads to the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree, covering chemistry, biology, physics, medical and pharmaceutical subjects.

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 in the year of application, and you cannot apply if you failed Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics or English in your final year of school.
• Online entrance exam with a written and an oral part testing Biology, Chemistry (or Physics) and English. The oral is a Zoom interview of about 20 minutes with a university professor. You can sit a maximum of two exams per application period.
• You need good English, and English is tested in the entrance exam. An eight-month Preparatory Course for Pharmacy Studies is available if you need more preparation.

Working in Ireland afterwards

A pharmacy degree from an EU/EEA member state that fully meets the Directive 2005/36/EC minimum training requirements (Article 44) can be recognised automatically. If you started your studies before the Directive’s reference date, you also need 3 consecutive years of professional experience within the last 5 years. Recognition is step one and PSI registration is step two: recognition alone does not let you practise, and you must also prove competence in English. EU law allows countries to limit EU-qualified pharmacists from running newly opened pharmacies, and we could not confirm on the PSI website whether Ireland does this. If you plan to be the supervising or superintendent pharmacist in a pharmacy, check with the PSI.

How to apply

1. Apply on DreamApplyRegister at apply.u-szeged.hu. For 2026 entry, the deadline was 15 June 2026, with places offered first come, first served.
2. Upload documents and payUpload your certified school diploma and transcripts, passport or ID, CV, medical certificate, birth certificate and motivation letter, and pay the EUR 300 application and exam fee.
3. Sit the online entrance examRegister for an exam date: a written Biology, Chemistry (or Physics) and English test, then a Zoom interview.
4. Accept and enrolIf you get an offer, pay the first-semester fee (EUR 5,420 in 2026/27) and arrange to start in September.

Costs

• EUR 5,420 for the first semester and EUR 5,000 for each of semesters 2 to 10, so EUR 10,420 in first year and EUR 10,000 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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