Medicine
Graduate Entry Medicine
School of Medicine
- Tuition
- €56,600 / year
- Confirmed 2026-2027
- Application close
- 1 February 2026 for EU/CAO
- Confirmed 2026-2027
- Requirement check
- A — exact sponsor-note verified
- Confirmed 2026-2027
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University of Limerick runs one English-taught health program in Limerick, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €56,600 a year.
Evidence confidence
84%
Average source completeness across verified programs.
- Country
- Ireland
- City
- Limerick
- 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
Limerick is graduate entry only — you need a bachelor's degree at 2.1 or better in any discipline — and it runs four years rather than six. It is also where the EU and non-EU fee gap is at its most extreme: the most recently published figures are €15,820 for EU applicants and €56,496 for everyone else, about three and a half times more.
Four years, and a degree first
Entry requires a first honours bachelor's degree at NFQ Level 8 with a minimum 2.1, in any discipline. There is no direct route from secondary school. Eight of the 141 medicine programs in this catalog run four years rather than the usual five or six, and this is one of them.
For the North American applicants this site is largely written for, that combination is the point. A completed bachelor's degree is the normal starting position rather than an obstacle, and a four-year degree is both familiar in shape and two years shorter than the Central European alternatives.
Selection is unusually clean on the EU side: GAMSAT is the sole selection instrument, and a score stays valid for two years. Non-EU candidates use GAMSAT or the MCAT — the MCAT route is explicitly available to North American applicants — and additionally attend an interview. Garda vetting and health screening apply to everyone.
The fee gap is the largest thing on this page
The most recently published figures are €15,820 tuition plus a €104 levy for EU applicants, and €56,496 tuition plus the same levy for non-EU applicants. Year-one health screening adds €350. These are carried as prior-year amounts because the official page does not state which academic year they apply to, so they are not confirmed for 2026-2027.
The gap is €40,676 a year. Across the four-year degree that is roughly €63,700 against €226,400 — about €162,700 of difference produced by nothing except which side of the EU border your citizenship sits on. No other single variable on this site moves a total that far.
If an EU passport is available to you through ancestry or residence, this is the page where establishing that is worth more than any scholarship application you will ever write.
Two application routes, and where it sits in Ireland
EU applicants apply through the CAO cycle, which opens in November 2025 and closes 1 February 2026. Non-EU applicants apply through a separate Atlantic Bridge cycle that opens on its own schedule. Those are different systems with different timetables, and the route you use is set by your status rather than by preference.
Ireland is expensive across the board. Its eight medicine programs with a confirmed fee run from €52,100 at University College Cork to €66,360 at University College Dublin, and its graduate-entry options are €56,100 at Cork, €62,500 at RCSI and €66,360 at UCD. Limerick's most recently published non-EU figure of €56,496 would sit near the bottom of that group if reconfirmed — close to Cork's and well below UCD's.
The award is an MB, BCh, BAO or BMBS from the School of Medicine.
Who this suits
Graduates with a 2.1 or better in any discipline who have sat or will sit the GAMSAT or MCAT, who want a four-year degree in an English-speaking country, and who have established whether they qualify for the EU fee before committing to the non-EU one.
Return-pathway evidence
Limerick is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0002043. 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 — MB, BCh, BAO is a title worth checking rather than assuming. None of this guarantees 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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School of Medicine
Graduate Entry Medicine
- Length
- 4 years
- Tuition
- €56,600 / year
- Evidence
- 84%
- Degree
- MB, BCh, BAO / BMBS
- Language
- English-medium graduate-entry pathway
- With patients
- English on the wards too
- Intake
- 1 February 2026 for EU/CAO
Application requirements
- Minimum 2.1 in first honours bachelor's degree (NFQ Level 8), any discipline. EU selection uses GAMSAT as sole…
- Prior bachelor's degree required
- Local-language competence is normally required for patient contact.
- A — exact sponsor-note verified
Living costs in Limerick
Typical monthly student costs in Limerick. Over a 10-month academic year, with €350 of health insurance, that is about €13,350 before tuition.
Monthly housing estimate
€600
Monthly living estimate
€700
Typical monthly total
~€1,300
Basis: Limerick, Ireland student cost preset (2026-06-11), medium confidence. These are planning estimates — rent, housing availability, visa and insurance costs and exchange rates differ, so check housing and the university's own guidance before committing.
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Latest source check: 2026-06-11. Sources are attached only to verified programs on this university page.