Medicine
Medicine in English
Faculty of Medicine
- Tuition
- €9,000 / year
- Confirmed 2026-2027
- Application close
- 1 Oct 2026
- Confirmed 2026-2027
- Requirement check
- A — exact sponsor-note verified
- Confirmed 2026-2027
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Medical University of Pleven runs one English-taught health program in Pleven, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €9,000 a year.
Evidence confidence
84%
Average source completeness across verified programs.
- Country
- Bulgaria
- City
- Pleven
- Program areas
- Medicine
- Verified Programs
- 1 program
- Current tuition
- 1/1 current
- Current timelines
- 1/1 current
- Official source
- Open official source
What this university is, in practice
Pleven charges €9,000 a year for Medicine in English, which is the lowest confirmed medicine fee in Bulgaria and cheaper than all but eleven of the 118 European medicine programs with a verified 2026-2027 price. It asks every applicant to sit entrance exams in biology and chemistry — no exceptions for strong transcripts — and it publishes a longer application window than most of its neighbours.
Where the fee sits
€9,000 a year, paid in two equal semester instalments, confirmed against the university's own admissions FAQ for the February 2027 intake. Bulgaria's four verified medicine fees are €9,000 here, €9,950 at Sofia, and €10,000 at both Plovdiv and Varna — a spread of €1,000 across the whole country, so Pleven's advantage is real but narrow. Over a six-year degree the gap between the cheapest and dearest Bulgarian option is about €6,000, which is less than a single year almost anywhere in Western Europe.
The number worth holding onto is the European one. Only eleven of the 118 medicine programs on this site with a confirmed 2026-2027 fee cost less than Pleven, against a European median of €17,863. That is the actual case for Bulgaria, and it does not depend on which of the four universities you pick.
The entrance exam is not optional
Every applicant sits biology and chemistry entrance exams. This is the part of the Bulgarian route that surprises applicants who are used to being assessed on their file: a strong secondary transcript does not exempt you, and the exams are the selection mechanism rather than a formality attached to one.
Alongside the exams the university asks for a secondary diploma, legalized or apostilled documents with certified translations, and an English certificate at B2 or above if English is not an official language in your country. The apostille step is the one that most often runs long — it is handled by authorities in your own country, not by the university, and it cannot be started the week before the deadline.
A wider window than most
Applications for 2026-2027 open on 1 June 2026 and close on 1 October 2026, with the entrance-exam schedule published by the university. Four months is generous by the standards of this catalog — Croatia's Split closes on 22 May for applicants who finished school in 2025, and Estonia's Tartu closes in mid-April — and it means Pleven remains open well after several cheaper-country deadlines have passed.
Local-language competence is normally required for patient contact, which is the standard position across English-taught medicine in Europe and not a Bulgarian peculiarity. Bulgarian is taught alongside the degree; the requirement arrives in the clinical years, when you cannot take a history through an interpreter.
Who this suits
Applicants whose binding constraint is cost, who can prepare for a written science exam rather than an interview, and who want a deadline late enough to remain a live option after the spring closes elsewhere.
Return-pathway evidence
Pleven is listed in WDOMS as school F0000374. The ECFMG Sponsor Note was present and the graduation-year field included Current on the audit date, and the Canada sponsor note was present with a pass at school level for the MCC check. Sponsor notes were checked on 2026-06-11. None of that is a guarantee of certification, residency, registration, or licensure — it means the school-level records were in place when we looked.
Written from the verified catalog and the official sources linked on this page. Sources last checked 2026-06-11; profile updated 2026-08-11. Approver: EuroMedGuide AI editorial pipeline. Figures quoted here are gated against the catalog by npm run validate:guide-stats.
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Exact admission page attached - Biology and chemistry entrance testing plus document recognition - 2026-2027
Faculty of Medicine
Medicine in English
- Length
- 6 years
- Tuition
- €9,000 / year
- Evidence
- 84%
- Degree
- Master / Physician qualification
- Language
- Full English academic pathway
- Intake
- 1 Oct 2026
Application requirements
- Secondary diploma; Biology and Chemistry entrance exams for every applicant; English certificate B2+ if English is not…
- Direct entry from secondary school
- Local-language competence is normally required for patient contact.
- A — exact sponsor-note verified
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Latest source check: 2026-06-11. Sources are attached only to verified programs on this university page.