Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Programs in Europe Under €10,000 a Year

Each figure links to its official source on the program's own page. Browse the full set in the program explorer or sort by price in the comparison tool.

Romania holds 11 of them — more than any other country, and across all three professions. Then Bulgaria with 5, North Macedonia and Serbia with 4 each, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Poland, Hungary and Czechia with 2 each. Lithuania, Slovakia, Greece and Cyprus contribute one apiece.

Two of those may surprise you. Poland and Czechia are not cheap countries for medicine, but both have pharmacy programs under €10,000 — the Medical University of Warsaw at €5,700 is among the cheapest pharmacy anywhere. And Cyprus and Greece each have one, which cuts against their general reputation for cost.

By profession the split is even between medicine and pharmacy at 16 each, with dentistry at 6. Dentistry is the hardest place to find a low price, which matches its scarcity generally — there are only 59 dental programs in the whole catalog.

A €7,000 program is not a €7,000 year. Modeled student living costs across the countries on this list run roughly €640 to €870 a month, so add somewhere near €8,000 to €10,000 a year before you have paid for anything academic.

In practice that means a €7,000 medicine program in Romania costs closer to €15,500 a year all in, and about €93,000 across six years. Still far below the European median, but a different number from the one in the brochure.

The good news is that these countries are also cheap to live in — the correlation runs the right way. Model your own figures in the cost calculator and see student living costs by city and the total cost of medical school.

Four of the 13 countries on this list — Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia — sit outside the EU/EEA recognition route. Their qualifications go through national recognition or equivalency in each country where you want to work, rather than the established EU framework.

That includes the two cheapest programs in Europe. It does not make them bad choices, and for some people the price difference is the difference between studying medicine and not. But it is a trade rather than a free lunch, and it should be decided knowingly rather than discovered in year six.

The full breakdown is in can you stay and practice in Europe after graduating, and the regional detail in studying medicine in the Western Balkans.

It says nothing about the language of clinical years, which is the local one almost everywhere — see clinical language requirements.

It says nothing about the North American routes. Every school is assessed individually, and for dentistry in particular the cost that dwarfs tuition is the CODA-accredited advanced standing program most US states require afterward, covered in practicing dentistry in the US or Canada.

And it says nothing about the fees that sit outside tuition — deposits, registration charges, and in some dental programs a materials fee that runs into thousands a year. Those are set out in what happens after you accept an offer.

Programs whose fee we could not confirm for 2026-2027. Of 271 programs, 52 have no verified current-cycle figure, and 21 of those are Italian. Eighteen are public universities, where tuition is assessed on household income through ISEE and no single number exists to quote.

So a genuinely cheap program with an unpublished fee will not appear here. We would rather leave it out than guess, because a wrong number on a page like this is the kind of thing people build a plan around.

If you find a low figure elsewhere for a program missing from this list, check it against the university's own fee page before believing it — how to verify a school yourself is the method.