Entrance Examination
Admission requirements - non-medical programs
For the non-medical programs of the University of Debrecen, the entrance exam is English and professional subjects dependent on the candidate’s program.
In exceptional cases, applicants with outstanding grades of previous studies may be accepted for the first year directly. Students, whose examination results or grades of previous studies are not good enough to start the first year of a BSc program directly, may be admitted to the Foundation Programs.
Admission requirements - medical and health science programs
An entrance examination is compulsory for students applying to the following programs:
- Basic Medicine Course
- Medicine
- Dentistry
- Pharmacy
The entrance exam consists of two parts:
- A written test (comprised of multiple-choice questions, definitions, calculations, etc.) in Biology (compulsory for all) and Chemistry or Physics (the applicant's choice). Each written test takes 50 minutes.
- An oral exam in Biology and Physics or Chemistry
Possible results of the exam:
- Admitted (to first year)
- Admitted to Basic Medicine Course (preparatory program)
- Rejected
- In certain cases the exam committee can offer acceptance to a different study program.
The overall exam performance is taken into consideration and the scores of different parts of the exam are for internal use only and not to be communicated to the applicants.
An entrance interview is compulsory in case of the following programs:
- BSc in Physiotherapy
- BSc in Public Health
- BSc Nurse
- BSc Dietetics
- BSc in Public Health
- BSc in Molecular Biology
- BSc in Complex Rehabilitation
- BSc in Health Social Work
- MA Social Work and Social Economy