Nicolaus Copernicus University

The city is not the one on the letterhead

The catalog records this program's city as Bydgoszcz, at the Collegium Medicum, while the university's name belongs to an institution seated in Toruń. Anyone planning housing, commuting or family visits from the university name alone would plan for the wrong city.

This is the second program in this profile set where that gap appears — Padua's English medicine is taught at its Venice campus — and it is worth treating as a general check rather than a curiosity. Confirm the teaching and clinical campus with the faculty before you commit to a lease, because the university name is not a reliable guide to where the six years happen.

PLN 31,500 a semester, and no schedule surprises

The confirmed 2026-2027 fee is PLN 31,500 per semester, PLN 63,000 per academic year, from an official university source for the current intake. At this site's stated planning rate of 1 EUR = PLN 4.25 that is about €14,824 a year and roughly €88,900 across six years.

The schedule is flat, which puts Nicolaus Copernicus in the simple half of the Polish field. Olsztyn's fee drops after Year 1 and Białystok's rises twice; here the number you see is the number you pay in each of the six years, which makes the six-year comparison honest at face value.

The fee is set in zloty, as Olsztyn's is, so the euro figures on this site are planning conversions rather than published prices. A student funding from a euro or dollar income carries the currency movement themselves, and over six years that is not a trivial exposure — it is the single largest variable on this page that neither you nor the university controls.

Ranked on science, verified in summer

Admission requires a secondary-school diploma with biology and chemistry or physics for ranking, English proficiency, and an application fee. Documents must be legalised or apostilled, with an eligibility statement and certified translation, and a health certificate and insurance are needed before enrolment.

The published calendar is looser than several of its neighbours: online recruitment opens under the Collegium Medicum schedule, the final date appears in the 2026/27 medicine recruitment resolution, and science ranking, assessment and document verification run through the summer 2026 round. Where Rzeszów and Białystok publish exact opening and closing timestamps, here you have to read the recruitment resolution to find the date that binds you.

Forty-six of the 124 European medicine programs with a confirmed fee cost less. Within Poland it sits just below the €15,106 median. Polish is taught and required for clinical patient contact, and the award is a Lekarz physician qualification over six years.