GreeceGRVerified ProgramsUniversity of Crete runs one English-taught health program in Heraklion, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €15,000 a year.
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GreeceCrete is the only Greek program on this site with an early application round — an early deadline of 23 November 2025 ahead of the regular 22 March 2026 — and the most expensive, at a most recently published €15,000 against the €12,000 that Patras, Thessaly and Thessaloniki all charge. It also front-loads payment: €3,000 on acceptance and €6,000 by the end of June.
The early application opened by 14 November 2025 with an early deadline of 23 November 2025, and the regular application period closes 22 March 2026. Shortlisted applicants interview after file review.
An early round is a familiar structure to North American applicants and almost absent from the rest of this catalog. It also arrives extremely early: a 23 November deadline means deciding on Crete more than nine months before teaching starts, and well before most European programs have opened at all. The regular March deadline is the realistic route for anyone who did not already have Greece on their list in the autumn.
Both rounds sit before the 30 June Patras deadline and the 15 May Thessaly one, so Crete is the Greek option that has to be decided first rather than kept as a fallback.
The most recently published figure is €15,000 per academic year, with a €3,000 deposit on acceptance and a €6,000 first-semester balance due by the end of June. That amount comes from the latest active international medicine admissions page rather than a stated 2026-2027 fee schedule, so it is carried here as a prior-cycle figure and is not confirmed for the current cycle.
The staging matters as much as the total. €9,000 of the €15,000 falls due before the academic year begins — the deposit at acceptance and the balance by end of June — leaving €6,000 for later. A student whose funding arrives at enrolment rather than at offer needs to plan for that gap.
Against the other Greek programs, the most recently published €15,000 is €3,000 a year above the €12,000 charged at Patras, Thessaly and Thessaloniki, or €18,000 across a six-year degree, and it sits below the €17,000 at Athens. Greece is a narrow market on price, and Crete is at the upper end of it.
Applicants must be foreign or non-Greek citizens, must have completed the final two years of school abroad, and must hold a school-leaving qualification permitting university entry in the country of issue — the same eligibility gate Patras and Thessaloniki apply.
What is different is the specificity of the academic routes. The published options include the IB with three Higher Level subjects, two of them chosen from physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, plus three Standard Level subjects, and an A-level route in chemistry and biology. Naming exact subject combinations is more useful than a general 'diploma granting access' requirement, because it tells an applicant two years out which subjects to actually take.
Local-language competence is normally required for patient contact. The degree runs six years to an integrated medical qualification.
Applicants who settled on Greece early enough to use a November round, who are still choosing school subjects and can follow the published IB or A-level combinations, and who can fund €9,000 before the academic year starts.
The University of Crete is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0000477. The ECFMG Sponsor Note was present with the graduation-year field including Current on the audit date, and the Canada sponsor note was present with a pass at school level for the MCC check, verified on 2026-06-11. Confirm the exact issued diploma title against the ECFMG Reference Guide for Medical Education Credentials before enrolment. This records the school-level evidence and does not guarantee certification, residency, registration, or licensure.
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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