What this university is, in practice
At €81,581 a year Cambridge carries the highest medicine fee in this catalog — and that figure is incomplete. It is the university tuition fee alone; a separate College fee, set by whichever Cambridge college admits you, sits on top and is not included in any number on this site. Six years of university tuition alone comes to roughly €489,500.
The published figure is not the whole fee
The confirmed 2026/27 figure is £70,554 per academic year in university tuition for overseas students, plus a separate College fee set by the admitting Cambridge college. At the ECB reference rate this site uses for planning — 1 EUR = GBP 0.86483 on 2026-06-15 — the university tuition converts to about €81,581.
That is the highest single figure in this catalog, and the College fee is additional to it. Across the six-year course the university tuition alone is £423,324, roughly €489,500, before any college charge and before living costs.
We publish the €81,581 because it is what the official source confirms, but it should be read as a floor rather than a total. Anyone comparing Cambridge against another program on that number is comparing an incomplete figure with a complete one — ask the admitting college for its fee before treating any Cambridge total as settled.
The scale, stated plainly
Cambridge living costs run about €12,700 a year on this site's presets, so six years is roughly €76,200 on top of tuition. Only four of the UK locations covered here are more expensive: London at €15,700 a year, Kingston upon Thames at €14,100, Oxford at €13,200 and Bath at €12,800.
For perspective across this catalog: six years of university tuition at Cambridge is about €489,500, against €21,474 for six years at the University of East Sarajevo — the cheapest confirmed medicine fee on this site, in Bosnia. The Cambridge figure is roughly twenty-three times the Bosnian one, and it still excludes the College fee.
That comparison is not an argument that one is better. It is a statement of the range this catalog covers, and a reason to be precise about what any single number includes.
A*A*A, UCAT, and a college that decides
The published requirement is a typical offer of A*A*A with chemistry required and college-specific additional science subjects, commonly biology, physics or mathematics; UCAT; a college application assessment and interviews; plus English, health, DBS or police and fitness-to-practise clearance.
The college structure is the part that is genuinely different from every other program in this catalog. Your additional subject requirements are college-specific, your assessment is a college assessment, your interviews are college interviews, and your College fee is set by that college. You are applying to Cambridge and to a college at the same time, and the second half of that is not visible in any comparison table.
The calendar is the UK-wide one. The 15 October 2025 deadline for 2026 entry has passed; for 2027 entry UCAS opens 12 May 2026 and the medicine deadline is 15 October 2026 at 18:00 UK time, with UCAT registration from 12 May 2026, booking from 23 June and testing 13 July to 24 September 2026. Interviews are usually November to March.
The degree runs six years to an MB, BChir from the School of Clinical Medicine. English is the clinical language, which is the structural advantage the UK holds over every non-English-speaking country in this catalog.
Who this suits
Applicants who can meet an A*A*A offer with chemistry, who understand that the published fee excludes the College fee and will obtain that figure before committing, and who can fund a six-year total well beyond anything else in this catalog.
Return-pathway evidence
The University of Cambridge is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0000276. 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, BChir 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.