How We Verify Every Number

Every tuition figure, deadline and entry requirement on this site is read off an official page, stored with its source and date, and checked by machine before it can be published.

Programs tracked
271

Medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, taught in English

Carry a source link
271 of 271

Every record stores the URL it was read from

Fee confirmed for 2026-27
260 of 271

The rest are shown as unconfirmed, not estimated

Lowest evidence confidence
84%

Source completeness and freshness, not school quality

The rule everything else follows

A number appears on this site only if a university, government body or regulator published it, and only with a link back to where it was published. There is no house estimate, no “typical” figure, and no averaging across schools to fill a gap. When a university has not published something, the page says that instead of guessing — and across 271 programs there are a great many such gaps, because admissions pages are genuinely incomplete.

This is the opposite of how most study-abroad directories work, and it is deliberate. A confident wrong number costs a student an application cycle. An honest blank costs them an email.

What we hold for each program

Each of the 271 programs has up to three separate evidence records, each sourced and dated independently:

Tuition evidence
271 of 271

The published fee, the currency it is charged in, and what kind of figure it is — a flat annual amount, an income-assessed band, or a first instalment.

Requirements evidence
261 of 271

The exact entry requirements as published, including admission tests, subject requirements and language evidence.

Timeline evidence
271 of 271

Application opening and closing dates, test and interview dates, and enrollment windows where the university publishes them.

Why a fee is not just a number

The single most common error in this field is quoting a figure that is not an annual fee as though it were one. Italian universities assess tuition on family income and country of residence; some publish a first instalment of a few hundred euros that is not the year’s cost.

So every fee is stored with its basis, and only genuine annual totals are used in medians, cheapest-first rankings and the cost calculator. A banded or partial figure is shown with the caveat attached and left out of every comparison — which is why some countries show fewer priced programs than they have programs.

The checks that run before anything publishes

Five automated validators run on every build, and a failure blocks the release rather than raising a warning:

  • Source and schema validation. Every record must carry a source link, a verification date and a valid status. Placeholder text is treated as a failure, not as content — a page is withheld rather than rendered with an unfilled field showing.
  • Licensing terminology. Regulator names and examination titles are checked against the current terms. Retired exam names cannot be published, because an out-of-date licensing step is one of the more damaging things a student can act on.
  • Statistics in prose. Any median, range or count quoted inside a guide is recomputed from the catalog and compared. If tuition research moves a median, guides quoting the old one fail the build until they are updated.
  • Counts asserted in prose. The same protection for sentence-level claims — “212 programs publish exact requirements” is recounted on every build.
  • Editorial gates on guides. A guide cannot publish without a quick answer, at least five questions answered, ten internal links, a named approver, a review date and a rollback note.

What this site deliberately does not do

  • It does not rank schools by quality. The evidence confidence figure on each page measures how complete and fresh the sourcing is. It is not a judgment about teaching, and it should never be read as one.
  • It does not take commission from universities.There is no paid placement, no sponsored ordering and no recruitment agency relationship. Nothing on a page changes because of who is on it.
  • It does not give admissions, immigration or licensing advice. It reports what regulators and universities publish, with links. Eligibility decisions rest with those bodies, and their rules change.
  • It does not promise outcomes. No page on this site predicts admission, visa approval, recognition or a residency match.

Questions about the data

Where does the tuition data come from?

Every fee is read from the university's own published page for the current admissions cycle and stored with the URL it came from, the date it was checked, and a note on what kind of figure it is. 260 of the 271 programs currently carry a fee confirmed for 2026-27. Nothing is averaged, estimated, or carried over from a third-party aggregator.

What happens when a university does not publish something?

The field stays empty and the page says so. It is never filled with a plausible-looking estimate. That is why some pages tell you a program does not publish its entry requirements — that absence is itself a useful fact when you are deciding where to spend your application effort.

Are living costs verified the same way as tuition?

No, and they are labeled differently everywhere they appear. Tuition is a quoted figure from an official page. Living costs are modeled planning estimates built per city, and the site calls them estimates rather than prices. Never budget from them without checking real rent for the city you are considering.

How often is the data rechecked?

Each record carries its own last-checked date, shown on the page. 237 of 271 records are marked verified for the current cycle and 33 are flagged as needing review, which is visible rather than hidden. Records are re-sourced when the cycle turns over or when a reader reports a change.

Who writes the guides, and are they reviewed?

The guides are produced by the EuroMedGuide editorial pipeline, which is AI-assisted and constrained by the rules on this page: a guide may only quote figures computed from the verified catalog, and every published guide carries a named approver, a review date, and a rollback note describing what would invalidate it. Automated checks block publication when a quoted figure no longer matches the catalog.

How do I report something that is wrong?

Email corrections@euromedguide.com with the page URL, the field, the current and corrected value, the official source URL, and the date you checked it. Corrections to tuition, deadlines, recognition or eligibility fields are only applied against an official source, not a forum post or a prospectus PDF from a previous year.

More on the limits of what is published here: the disclaimer, about this site, and how to send a correction.