University of Edinburgh

The sixth year moves it four places

£54,650 per academic year for international students, confirmed for 2026/27, about €63,192 at the ECB reference rate this site uses for planning. Six years is roughly €379,200 in tuition.

On annual fee that ranks twenty-eighth cheapest of the 35 UK medicine records with a published fee. On total tuition it ranks thirty-second — the sixth year moves it four places towards the expensive end, past schools charging more per year but teaching for five.

Edinburgh's living costs run about €12,000 a year on this site's presets, rated High confidence, so six years is €72,000 and the all-in figure is roughly €451,200. Aberdeen, the other Scottish program, comes to about €343,700 for five years in a cheaper city — €107,500 less, on an annual fee only €5,262 lower.

This is the same lesson as Buckingham's 4.5 years, running in the opposite direction: duration is doing more work than the advertised rate, and a comparison table showing annual fees hides it completely.

UCAT with the situational judgement test

The published requirement is AAA including chemistry and one of biology or human biology, mathematics or physics, with UCAT including the situational judgement test, an academic and UCAT scoring process, and an assessment or interview stage.

Naming the situational judgement test explicitly matters more than it looks. The SJT is scored separately from the cognitive sections of the UCAT and several schools use it differently — some as a threshold, some in the ranking, some barely at all. A school that names it in its published requirements is telling you it counts, which is worth knowing before you decide how much preparation it deserves.

Hull York, profiled yesterday, is the other school in this set that names the SJT specifically. Most UK entries in this catalog record UCAT without qualification.

PVG, and the rest of the calendar

Edinburgh's record specifies English requirement, health, immunisation, PVG or police, and fitness-to-practise checks. PVG is the Scottish disclosure scheme and it is not the DBS process used in England and Wales — a difference in procedure and timeline rather than in substance, and one an overseas applicant should ask about early rather than discovering at enrolment.

The UCAS calendar applies: the 2026-entry deadline of 15 October 2025 at 18:00 UK time has passed, and for 2027 entry UCAS opens 12 May 2026 with a medicine deadline of 15 October 2026 at 18:00 UK time, UCAT testing between 13 July and 24 September 2026, and interviews usually November to March.

The degree runs six years to an MBChB from the Medical School. English is the clinical language, so there is no local-language requirement of the kind that applies across the non-English-speaking countries in this catalog.