United KingdomGBVerified ProgramsUniversity of Southampton runs one English-taught health program in Southampton, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €37,001 a year.
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United KingdomSouthampton shows the lowest medicine fee in the United Kingdom on this site, €37,001. That figure is the Years 1 and 2 rate. Clinical Years 3 to 5 are charged at £61,800 — close to double — so the five-year degree actually costs about €288,400 in tuition, not the €185,000 the headline implies. It is the largest gap between advertised and actual on this site.
The confirmed 2026/27 schedule is £32,000 per year for Years 1 and 2, and £61,800 per year for clinical Years 3 to 5. At the ECB reference rate this site uses for planning — 1 EUR = GBP 0.86483, taken on 2026-06-15 — that is about €37,001 and €71,459 respectively.
Across the five-year BM5 the tuition comes to £249,400, roughly €288,400. Multiplying the advertised first-year rate by five gives €185,005, which understates the real bill by about €103,400. Nothing else in this catalog has a gap of that size between the number that gets quoted and the number that gets paid.
The clinical-year escalation is not unique to Southampton — eight of the 36 UK medicine records in this catalog describe a fee that rises for the clinical years. It is a UK pattern, and it means UK medicine fees cannot be compared on a single annual figure at all. Where a schedule is published, the multi-year total is the only honest comparison.
Two things make the UK a genuinely different proposition from the rest of this catalog, and both survive the arithmetic above.
English is the clinical language. Every other country profiled here requires competence in a local language for patient contact — Polish, Romanian, Italian, Croatian, Slovak — taught alongside the degree and needed from the clinical years. In the UK that requirement does not exist, which removes a workload and a risk that applicants routinely underestimate.
And the degree runs five years rather than six. Against a six-year continental program, a fifth year saved is a year of living costs avoided and a year of earnings gained, which narrows the gap by more than most comparisons allow for. Southampton's living costs run about €11,500 a year on this site's presets, so five years is roughly €57,500 against six years elsewhere.
Selection is UCAT plus academic prerequisites, English and interview. The published requirement is AAA including biology and one additional science, GCSE and English-language requirements, academic and UCAT screening, an interview, and occupational health, immunisation, DBS or police and fitness-to-practise checks.
The calendar is the UK-wide one and it runs far earlier than most of Europe. The 2026-entry deadline of 15 October 2025 at 18:00 UK time has passed. For 2027 entry: UCAS opens 12 May 2026, the medicine deadline is 15 October 2026 at 18:00 UK time, UCAT registration opens 12 May 2026 with booking from 23 June and testing 13 July to 24 September 2026, and interviews run university-specific dates usually between November and March.
That October deadline is more than ten months before teaching starts, and the UCAT has to be sat before it. An applicant discovering UK medicine in the spring has already missed the cycle — a very different rhythm from Bulgaria's October close or Rzeszów's late-September one.
Applicants who want an English-language clinical education and a five-year degree, who have budgeted the clinical-year escalation rather than five years at the advertised rate, and who can work to a UCAS deadline ten months before term.
The University of Southampton is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0001662. 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. This records the school-level evidence and does not guarantee 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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