Dental Medicine (English line)

About the course

A six-year (360 ECTS) dental medicine degree taught in English at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in Cluj-Napoca.

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 published general criteria look at your final school-leaving average and your scores in specific subjects (biology, chemistry and physics are named), plus language certificates, relevant volunteering or work experience and recommendation letters. No weights or minimum grades are published.
• No entrance exam and no interview: a faculty-approved commission evaluates your application file against general and faculty-specific criteria.
• English at B2 level or above: a certificate is required unless you completed your secondary studies fully in English.

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. Prepare documentsGather your passport, Leaving Certificate results and school documents (legalised/apostilled as required), a recent medical certificate (issued within 6 months), the signed application annexes and, if needed, an English certificate at B2 level or above.
2. Apply onlineCreate an account on admissions.umfcluj.ro, upload your file and pay the EUR 300 processing fee. In 2026, Session I closed 20 May and Session II closed 16 July; Dental Medicine (English) was not reopened in August.
3. Get your resultA faculty commission evaluates the file. In 2026, Session I results came out 3 June and Session II results 28 July. If you are not admitted in Session I you stay in Session II without paying again.
4. Confirm your placePay half of the EUR 10,000 annual tuition (non-refundable) by the deadline (16 June or 6 August in 2026). EU students’ studies must then be recognised by Romania’s CNRED, and enrolment takes place in the last two weeks of September.

Costs

• EUR 10,000 per year. The university publishes one tuition fee for international candidates, and places on the English line are fee-paying (self-paid), so expect to pay it as an EU student. There is also a non-refundable file processing fee of EUR 300, and to confirm your place you must pay half of the annual tuition, which is non-refundable. These are 2026/27 figures; 2027/28 fees were not yet published.

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