Medicine, MD Program in English

About the course

A six-year medical degree at the School of Medicine in English in Kraków. First year ends with a summer clinical clerkship, and from third year you do bedside teaching in Jagiellonian University hospitals.

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. In general, you need a school-leaving certificate that qualifies you for higher education in the country where you got it. You must also have studied Biology or Physics, and Chemistry, at secondary level, with grades shown on your certificate.
• Places go only on entrance exam results, and there is no interview. The exam is online, with 100 multiple-choice questions in 180 minutes. It tests reasoning and critical thinking in pre-medical sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Logic and Ethics) using texts, charts and graphs.
• English: IELTS 6.5, TOEFL iBT 87, or a letter from your school confirming that your secondary education was taught in English.

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. Register onlineCreate an account on the Jagiellonian University Online Application System and pay the application fee (100 PLN in 2026, to be confirmed). In the 2026 cycle, applications ran from 23 February to 29 April 2026 (12 noon CEST).
2. Complete your applicationUpload all required documents, including proof of English and your school certificates. Only complete applications are processed.
3. Sit the online examTake the 180-minute online entrance exam (23 May 2026 at 4pm CEST in the last cycle). The ranking list was published on 1 June 2026.
4. EnrolIf you get a place, enrol in round 1 (8 June to 21 July 2026 in the last cycle), send the immunisation form and health certificate, and pay your first tuition instalment within 7 days of registration.

Costs

• EUR 16,000 per year for 2026/27. Fees have risen over time (EUR 15,500 in 2025/26), so the 2027/28 fee may be higher. You can pay in full or in two instalments, with the first at least half the total (in first year, within 7 days of registration; the second by 15 February). The fee page does not set a separate EU rate, but it does not say directly that EU citizens pay the same. Check this with the school. The 2026 application fee was listed as 100 PLN (about EUR 23), marked ‘to be confirmed’.

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