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Everything you need to know about studying medicine.

Admission procedure for medical studies

Medical studies application

You must apply centrally via the online portal hochschulstart.de for the degree programmes in human medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. You must submit your university entrance qualification and, if applicable, other qualifications, such as the score of a university entrance exam.

Veterinary Medicine NC

The numerus clausus (NC) for veterinary medicine indicates the Abitur grade with which the last applicant of the semester in question was awarded a study place via the so-called Abitur best quota. The high NC values...

Dentistry NC

The dentistry NC is the numerus clausus for this degree programme. It indicates the average grade you need in your Abitur in order to gain a place on a degree programme directly via the Abitur quota. The grades...

NC Medicine

Competition for a place on a medical degree programme is extremely high. With two exceptions, the NC for all federal states is 1.0, meaning that despite opportunities to improve one's own NC...

Numerus Clausus

The Numerus Clausus (NC) refers to the Abitur grade of the applicant who was awarded the last available place on a degree programme in a selection procedure. Translated from Latin, the term means "closed number", which...

Aptitude tests for medical studies

Without an Abitur of 1.0, a place to study medicine at a state university in Germany is difficult to achieve at first glance and the path to getting there is often time-consuming. Besides...

The TMS: structure and preparation

This blog post was written by our medical student in Bratislava, Isabella Raber, who has passed her Abitur, but the average grade is not good enough to be accepted directly to a medical university in Germany.