University of Thessaly

An exam, on a date you already know

Selection is written entrance examinations in biology and chemistry, with the 2026 papers scheduled for 30 May 2026 and the application deadline on 15 May 2026. That fortnight between closing and sitting is unusually tight, and it means the exam preparation has to be finished before you apply rather than after.

Publishing the exam date this far ahead is a practical gift. Several programs in this catalog say only that tests are 'arranged within the cycle' or 'scheduled after document review', which makes it impossible to plan around competing deadlines. Here you can put 30 May in a calendar alongside Slovakia's 17 June and Croatia's July enrolment windows and see immediately whether the year works.

Thessaly is also the only Greek program on this site that selects this way. Patras scores a published rubric weighted towards English and interview, Thessaloniki runs a 60-question assessment across two cycles, and Crete reviews files with an interview for those shortlisted. If you test well on written science and less well on interviews, this is the Greek page that suits you and the identical €12,000 fee will not tell you that.

Forty places, self-financed

The program is described as self-financed with 40 places at launch, taught at the Biopolis campus in Larissa. A published cohort of 40 is small — Patras contests 50 — and a small self-financed intake is worth reading as a young program rather than an established one.

That is not a criticism, but it does change what you should verify. Ask about the clinical placement arrangements and the teaching hospital for the later years, because a recently launched English track has less published history behind those than the six-year degree itself implies.

€12,000 against the field

€12,000 per year, confirmed for the current published rate. Twenty-eight of the 124 medicine programs with a confirmed fee on this site cost less, against a European median of €16,968, so Thessaly sits in the cheaper quarter of the catalog — as do the other Greek options at the same price.

The degree runs six years across 12 semesters to a Doctor of Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine. Local-language competence is normally required for patient contact, and Thessaly's sponsor notes were re-checked on 2026-08-04, among the most recent verification dates in this profile set.

What it costs to live there

Larissa had no living-cost preset until an official-source audit on 2026-08-12 added one. It runs about €7,800 a year on the modelled city basis — €260 a month housing plus €520 other living — putting six years of living at €46,800 and the all-in figure at roughly €118,800.

The university publishes something far cheaper and very specific: hall places at €40 a month for a three-person room, €60 for a two-person and €80 for a single, bills included. It also estimates €400 to €700 a month all-in for a student.

That €60 hall rate is the lowest published student accommodation figure anywhere in this catalog, and it is the reason the modelled preset should be read as the private-market case rather than the likely one. If you secure a hall place, Thessaly is materially cheaper than any of the €12,000 Greek programs it otherwise ties with — and hall availability is the question to ask admissions first.