Your Tuition Is Not Priced in Euros, and That Changes the Number
114 of the 227 confirmed fees on this site are published in pounds, dollars, zloty, koruna or marks. Every euro figure attached to them is a conversion, and the fee you actually pay moves.
Quick Answer
Half of it is not charged in euros. We hold a confirmed 2026-2027 fee for 227 of the 271 programs on this site, and 114 of those fees are published in something else: 85 in pounds sterling, 10 in US dollars, 10 in Polish zloty, 7 in Czech koruna and 2 in Bosnian convertible marks. Every euro figure you see on this site for those programs is a conversion we performed, and the university is not bound by it. That matters more for a Canadian than for an American, and it matters in an unexpected direction — eight of Hungary's eleven confirmed fees are published in US dollars, so an American applicant to Semmelweis or Debrecen is quoted a fee in their own currency and carries no exchange risk at all, while a Canadian applicant to the same program carries all of it. The practical rule is simple: find out which currency your offer letter will be denominated in before you build a budget, because that is the currency your risk is in for the next five or six years.
Source Status
Currency is read from the confirmed 2026-2027 tuition text as the university published it. Euro figures for non-euro fees are conversions at a static planning rate recorded alongside each record, not quotes from the university.
Quick Take
- 114 of 227 confirmed fees are published in a currency other than the euro.
- Most Hungarian fees are in US dollars; Poland and Czechia largely use local currency.
- The euro figures on this site are conversions, and conversions move.
What the universities actually publish
Counting only the 227 programs where we hold a confirmed fee for the current cycle:
| Currency the fee is published in | Programs |
|---|---|
| Euro only | 109 |
| Pound sterling | 85 |
| US dollar | 10 |
| Polish zloty | 10 |
| Czech koruna | 7 |
| Bosnian convertible mark | 2 |
| Two currencies at once | 3 |
| No figure published | 1 |
By country, the fees quoted in a single non-euro currency are 85 in the United Kingdom, 12 in Poland, 8 in Hungary, 7 in Czechia and 2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. No other country on this site publishes a fee outside the euro.
Three universities publish both, and they are worth knowing about because they are the honest ones. The Medical University of Sofia states its dentistry fee as EUR 10000/19558.30 BGN per year — a euro figure and its lev equivalent at the fixed peg. The Medical University of Bialystok publishes Year 1 as €15,100 / US$16,900. The University of Rzeszow quotes tuition in euros but its application fee in zloty. When a university gives you two numbers, it is telling you which one it will actually invoice.
One clarification, because it is easy to misread: Bulgaria's lev has been pegged to the euro for decades, so a Bulgarian fee quoted in leva is not a floating exposure. The pound, the dollar, the zloty and the koruna are.
The Hungarian case, which runs backwards
Eight of Hungary's eleven confirmed fees are published in US dollars. Not euros, and not forint:
| University | Program | Published fee |
|---|---|---|
| Semmelweis University | Medicine | USD 20,900 per year (USD 10,450 per semester) |
| Semmelweis University | Dentistry | US$10,450 per semester (US$20,900 per academic year) |
| Semmelweis University | Pharmacy | USD 13,240 per year (USD 6,620 per semester) |
| University of Debrecen | Medicine | USD 16,900 per year |
| University of Debrecen | Dentistry | USD 17,500 per year |
| University of Debrecen | Pharmacy | USD 8,000 per year |
| University of Pecs | Medicine | USD 16,750 per year |
| University of Pecs | Dentistry | US$17,350 per academic year |
The three exceptions are worth naming, because they break the country-level generalization: the University of Szeged publishes in euros for both medicine and dentistry, and the University of Pecs publishes its pharmacy fee in euros while quoting medicine and dentistry in dollars. Currency is a university decision here, and at Pecs it is a program-by-program one.
For the eight that do quote in dollars, this is a deliberate choice by universities that have recruited North American students for decades, and it inverts the usual advice. For an American applicant at Semmelweis or Debrecen there is no exchange exposure whatsoever — the number on the page is the number that leaves your account. For a Canadian applicant it is worse than a euro fee would be, because the Canadian dollar's exposure to the US dollar is the one exposure a Canadian budget already has everywhere else.
Two Polish universities do the same thing. The Medical University of Lublin publishes its six-year MD program at USD 9,120 per semester and its dentistry program at USD 9,650 per semester, both for students admitted since 2026/2027.
Poland and Czechia: the local-currency block
Ten Polish fees and all seven Czech fees are published in local currency. These are the ones where a euro figure is furthest from what you will pay:
| University | Program | Published fee |
|---|---|---|
| Medical University of Gdansk | Medicine | 32,100 PLN per semester (64,200 PLN per year) |
| Wroclaw Medical University | Medicine | 67,900 PLN per academic year |
| Poznan University of Medical Sciences | Medicine | Total published six-year tuition 485,000 PLN |
| Medical University of Silesia | Dentistry | PLN 34,200 per semester (PLN 68,400 per year) |
| Charles University | Medicine | 420,000 CZK per academic year |
| Masaryk University | Medicine | 380,000 CZK per academic year |
| Charles University | Dentistry | CZK 410,000 per academic year |
The Poznan figure is the one to sit with. A single published number covering six years — 485,000 PLN, split as 71,000 for each of Years 1 and 2 and 85,750 for each of Years 3 to 6 — is unusually transparent about what the degree costs. It is also six years of zloty exposure expressed in one line.
Wroclaw publishes something else useful: payment options of two installments of 34,799 PLN or four of 17,569 PLN. Note that four installments cost slightly more than two, which is a financing charge stated in the currency rather than named as one.
The two Bosnian fees round out the picture — the University of Sarajevo at BAM 12,000 per year and the University of East Sarajevo at BAM 7,000 per year, payable in two equal installments, that second figure being a 2025/2026 published rate rather than a confirmed current-cycle one.
How to budget when the fee is not in your currency
Convert at the rate on the day, then plan for it to be wrong. The euro figures on this site are produced with static planning rates recorded alongside each record — 1 EUR = 1.17 USD, 1 EUR = 0.86 GBP, 1 EUR = 4.25 PLN. They exist so that programs can be ranked against each other consistently. They are not a forecast and they are not an offer.
Size the exposure before you worry about it. On a €15,000 fee, a five percent currency move is €750 a year and roughly €4,500 over six years. That is real, and it is smaller than the gap between two universities in the same country — so currency should refine a shortlist, not build one.
Ask which currency the invoice is issued in, not which currency the website displays. Some universities publish in euros for marketing and invoice in local currency, and the answer to that question is a single email.
Check whether the fee is billed annually or per semester. 19 of the confirmed fees are stated per semester, which halves the amount exposed to any single conversion but doubles the number of transfers and the fees attached to them.
And keep the currency question separate from the question of whether the fee rises in later years. They compound, and 29 programs on this site charge a different amount in the clinical years than in the first — a currency move on top of a scheduled increase is how a six-year budget gets away from people. The cost calculator will do the arithmetic in your own currency once you have decided which programs are on the list.
FAQs
What currency is European medical school tuition charged in?
It varies by country and it is often not the euro. Of the 227 programs with a confirmed 2026-2027 fee, 85 publish in pounds sterling, 10 in US dollars, 10 in Polish zloty, 7 in Czech koruna and 2 in Bosnian convertible marks. 109 publish in euros alone, three publish in two currencies at once, and one publishes no figure because it has no non-EU places.
Why does Hungary price its medical degrees in US dollars?
Eight of Hungary's eleven confirmed fees are published in US dollars — all three programs at Semmelweis and Debrecen, plus medicine and dentistry at Pecs. These universities have recruited North American students for decades and quote them in a familiar currency. The University of Szeged and Pecs pharmacy publish in euros instead, so it is not a national convention.
Are the euro figures on this site what I will pay?
For a euro-denominated program, yes. For the 114 programs published in another currency, the euro figure is a conversion at a static planning rate recorded alongside the record, and it exists so programs can be compared consistently. The university invoices in its own currency at whatever the rate is on the day.
How much can currency movement actually change my costs?
On a €15,000 annual fee, a five percent move is about €750 a year and roughly €4,500 across a six-year degree. That is a real amount but usually smaller than the difference between two universities in the same country, so it is a reason to check rather than a reason to choose.
Is a Bulgarian fee quoted in leva an exchange risk?
Not in the same way. The Bulgarian lev has been pegged to the euro for decades, which is why the Medical University of Sofia can publish a dentistry fee as EUR 10000/19558.30 BGN and have both figures mean the same thing. The pound, dollar, zloty and koruna all float.
Should I pay a year at a time or per semester?
19 of the confirmed fees are stated per semester, which spreads each conversion across two dates instead of one and reduces the chance of a single bad rate. It also doubles the number of international transfers and the fees attached to them. Wroclaw Medical University publishes both options and the four-installment plan costs slightly more in total than the two-installment plan.