PolandPLVerified ProgramsUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn runs one English-taught health program in Olsztyn, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €11,529 a year.
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PolandOlsztyn is the cheapest medicine in Poland, and it is cheaper than its own headline suggests: the published schedule is PLN 49,000 for Year 1 and PLN 47,000 for every year after. Almost every fee on this site rises or holds steady across a degree. This one falls after the first year, which makes the six-year total roughly €66,800 — the lowest in the country by a wide margin.
The confirmed 2026-2027 schedule is PLN 49,000 for Year 1 and PLN 47,000 per year from Year 2 onward, published on the government study.gov.pl listing. At this site's stated planning rate of 1 EUR = PLN 4.25 that is about €11,529 in the first year and roughly €11,059 in each of the next five.
Across six years the tuition comes to PLN 284,000, or approximately €66,800 at that planning rate. Compare that with Białystok's published schedule, which runs the other way and totals €94,300 — a difference of about €27,500 across the degree, when the two headline annual figures are only €3,571 apart. More than a fifth of that gap is created by the schedules alone rather than by the advertised prices.
That is the general warning for Poland. Comparing Polish medicine on the headline annual fee compares numbers that do not mean the same thing, because several universities publish a schedule that changes across the six years and the first-year figure is the one that gets quoted.
Olsztyn publishes in Polish zloty, not euro. The euro figures on this site are planning conversions at a stated rate of 1 EUR = PLN 4.25, and this site is explicit about that rather than presenting a converted number as a published price.
For a student funding six years from outside Poland that is a real exposure: your tuition is fixed in a currency you do not earn, and a move in the zloty changes what you pay without anyone changing the fee. Nicolaus Copernicus in Bydgoszcz is priced the same way. Rzeszów, Białystok and Kielce publish in euro directly, so three of the five Polish schools profiled here carry no zloty risk at all.
Neither arrangement is better in the abstract. It is worth knowing which one you are signing up for, because it is not visible in a comparison table that shows everything in euro.
Admission is file-based per the School of Medicine candidates page. The requirement is twelve years of schooling with biology mandatory and at least one of chemistry, mathematics or physics, plus evidence of English proficiency for non-native speakers.
Biology being compulsory while the second subject is a free choice among three is more permissive than most of the region — Osijek in Croatia requires all three sciences, and Poland's own Rzeszów ranks on two chosen subjects. An applicant who took mathematics rather than chemistry is still eligible here, which is not true everywhere.
Twenty-six of the 124 European medicine programs with a confirmed fee cost less than Olsztyn's first year, against a median of €16,968. Within Poland it is the cheapest of fourteen, where the median is €15,106 and Warsaw tops the range at €18,800. The degree runs six years across 12 semesters to a Doctor of Medicine from the Collegium Medicum, and local-language competence is normally required for patient contact.
Olsztyn had no living-cost preset until an official-source audit on 2026-08-12 added one. It runs about €7,700 a year — €280 a month housing plus €490 other living — which is €46,200 across six years.
Combined with the falling tuition schedule, the six-year all-in figure comes to roughly €113,000. That is the lowest total of any Polish program profiled on this site, and it is produced by three things pulling the same way: the cheapest tuition in Poland, a fee that drops after Year 1, and a small city.
The university publishes dormitory rates of €130 to €300 a month, and the Study in Poland category ranges give roughly €222 to €293 a month for groceries, transport, health and basic entertainment. A student in a dormitory would land below the modelled figure used here.
Applicants who want the lowest six-year total in Poland rather than the lowest advertised year, who took biology plus any one of chemistry, mathematics or physics, and who can carry tuition fixed in zloty.
Olsztyn is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0002460. The ECFMG Sponsor Note was present with the graduation-year field including Current when the sponsor notes were checked on 2026-08-04, and the Canada sponsor note was present with a pass at school level for the MCC check. Confirm the exact issued diploma title against the ECFMG Reference Guide for Medical Education Credentials before enrolment. This describes the school-level evidence on the audit date and guarantees nothing about certification, residency, registration, or licensure.
Written from the verified catalog and the official sources linked on this page. Sources last checked 2026-09-12; profile updated 2026-09-12. 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 (Collegium Medicum)
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Typical monthly student costs in Olsztyn. Over a 10-month academic year, with €250 of health insurance, that is about €7,950 before tuition.
Monthly housing estimate
€280
Monthly living estimate
€490
Typical monthly total
~€770
Basis: Olsztyn, Poland 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.
Latest source check: 2026-07-13. Sources are attached only to verified programs on this university page.