Medicine (lekarski), uniform master’s studies in English

About the course

A six-year (12-semester), English-taught medical degree based in Katowice. Some clinical classes take place outside the Silesian region.

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. Its general rule for foreign school-leaving certificates is that candidates are ranked on results in two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics, with applicants who took two subjects at advanced level ranked ahead of those with one advanced and one basic subject, and then those with two basic subjects.
• No entrance exam or interview is listed for foreign-certificate applicants; admission is based on the ranking of school-leaving results.
• You must show English at B2 level with an accepted certificate (for example IELTS 5.5 or higher, TOEFL iBT 72 or higher, PTE Academic 59 or higher, Cambridge B2 First/C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency). The Irish Leaving Certificate is not on the list of school certificates accepted as proof of English, so without an accepted certificate you will be invited to take an entrance test in English at B2 level.

Working in Ireland afterwards

Because your medical degree comes from an EU/EEA country, the Medical Council of Ireland can recognise it automatically under EU Directive 2005/36/EC, as long as it is listed in Annex V (point 5.1.1). If that listing says the degree must come with an internship or state-exam certificate from your home country, you need to have that too, and you must also show your current professional standing and meet the English-language requirements. Graduates of EU/EEA medical schools may apply to the HSE for Irish intern posts, but only if their home-country degree does not already count as complete training. In older HSE intern guides (e.g., the 2022 guide), only graduates from medical schools in Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Iceland and Slovenia could apply. Graduates from other EEA countries (and Italians holding the ‘abilitante’ degree) were told they are not eligible, because they qualify directly for General registration. Applicants who need no work permit were matched before those who do. Please check the current eligibility list in the HSE intern guide for the year you apply. We could not confirm it for the July 2027 intake because the current HSE guide pages are password-protected.

How to apply

1. Prepare documentsGet your Leaving Certificate with an apostille and a sworn translation, an English B2 certificate, confirmation of your eligibility for higher education (a statement from NAWA, the Polish academic exchange agency), a passport photo and your passport.
2. Register onlineCreate an account on the university’s recruitment portal (rekrutacja.wst.com.pl) and upload scans once the 2027/28 recruitment opens (the 2026/27 round opened on 28 April 2026). Pay the EUR 30 recruitment fee.
3. Ranking and admissionCandidates are ranked on their results in two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics. No entrance exam is listed; you will be asked to sit an English test if you have no accepted certificate.
4. EnrolPay the EUR 200 enrolment fee, bring original documents and provide a medical certificate from an occupational health doctor. You also need accident insurance, hepatitis B vaccination proof, a sanitary-epidemiological booklet and a criminal record certificate.

Costs

• Tuition is charged per semester in euro and is the same for EU and non-EU students: EUR 7,200 per semester in years 1-2 (EUR 14,400 a year), EUR 7,950 per semester in years 3-4 and EUR 8,250 per semester in years 5-6. There is also a one-off recruitment fee of EUR 30 and an enrolment fee of EUR 200 for EU applicants (EUR 300 for non-EU). Academy of Silesia is a private university, so all students pay tuition. These are 2026/27 fees; 2027/28 fees had not been published at the time of checking.

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