Transfer your studies to UPJŠ Košice
If you have already started medicine or dentistry somewhere in Europe and it is not working out, you can move. Our honest recommendation is UPJŠ in Slovakia. Of every university we have looked at, they handle transfers best, and several of our own team did it themselves.
Why we point transfer students to Košice
This is not a sponsored opinion. It is what we have learned guiding more than a hundred students through the move, and from doing it ourselves.
students transferred into UPJŠ with us. We know this process inside out, which is exactly why we recommend it.
The most straightforward process we have seen
Of every university we have looked at, UPJŠ has by far the simplest transfer route. We are saying that from first-hand experience, not from a brochure.
Genuinely student friendly
They are the most welcoming faculty we deal with when reviewing transfer applications, and the system behind it is clear and well organised.
Years of doing this
UPJŠ has taken transfer students for a long time and has made the move smooth for a lot of them.
Fair recognition of what you have done
They review your completed subjects carefully and recognise as many as they can, so you are not starting from zero.
Everything in English
General Medicine and Dental Medicine are taught entirely in English, and the degree is recognised across the EU.
We have walked this road
Several of our own team have transferred themselves. When we tell you what happens next, it is because we lived it.
UPJŠ accepts transfers from across Europe
If your faculty is comparable, your completed subjects can be recognised. Students move to us from all over the EU and EEA, most often from these countries.
Not sure whether your university counts? Send us a message and we will check your case properly, with your transcript in front of us.
So how does a transfer actually work?
Before anything else there is one thing every transfer student has to do, and it catches people out. Read this part carefully.
You have to sit and pass the entrance exam
There is no transfer without it. At UPJŠ transfers go through the normal admission, which means you take the same entrance exam as every other applicant. Passing it is what makes you eligible to be considered at all. The good news is that it is very doable, and preparing you for it is the thing we are best at.
Exam sittings
Getting the years you already did to count
When you transfer, you ask UPJŠ to recognise the subjects you already passed. The faculty compares them with its own curriculum and decides which ones count and which year you join. Most transfer students only have to make up a semester or two, because small differences between universities are completely normal.
Documents for recognition
- Application for Recognition of Study SubjectsThe recognition form, filled in.Open the application
- Original transcriptsYour study records, showing the exact date each course was completed.
- Syllabus of completed coursesThe course content, as originals or certified copies.
- Curriculum of the study programmeThe full curriculum of the programme you are coming from.
- Proof of paymentThe receipt for the €20 recognition fee.
The rules they apply
- Since 1 September 2026, under Dean's Directive No. 1/2026, a course is recognised when its content is identical or sufficiently similar to the UPJŠ course and no more than ten years have passed since you took it. The Dean decides, on the statement of the study programme guarantor.
- The ten years are counted from the start of the academic year you are entering.
- You cannot transfer credits from a degree you already finished. Only unfinished studies count, and credits from a bachelor's degree cannot be moved into the master's programme.
- A course can be recognised only if it exists at UPJŠ as a compulsory or compulsory-elective subject.
- If a subject is graded at UPJŠ, it can only be recognised if it was graded at your old university too, not just marked as passed.
- If your old course was marked simply as passed, UPJŠ recognises it as passed, E, sufficient.
- Courses can only come from another Faculty of Medicine running the same or a very similar programme at the same level.
- At most 180 credits can be recognised in total, at most 90 from any one academic year, and at most 60 if your final year there was a single semester.
- If you were enrolled at more than one medical faculty in the same academic year, only the credits from the first one you enrolled at can be recognised.
- Courses taken outside the EU, Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea are recognised only in exceptional and justified cases (Dean's Directive No. 4/2023), and courses taken online in those countries are never recognised. Talk to us before you count on them.
- Dentistry works differently: a transfer can only enter the 1st or 2nd year. There is no transfer into the 3rd year or higher.
- Coming back to UPJŠ? You do not need to send a transcript or syllabus for the years you already did here, only for another faculty of medicine.
The documents you send with your transfer request
Three forms plus your study records. We fill them in with you and check every page before anything is sent.
Your transfer request
- Request for TransferThe main transfer form. Fill it in, then sign it.Download the form
- Application for Recognition of Study SubjectsLists the courses you have already passed so they count towards your UPJŠ studies.Open the application
- Letter of AuthorizationA standard authorisation form from UPJŠ.Download the letter
- Original transcriptsYour official study records with the exact completion dates.
- Syllabus of completed coursesThe course descriptions, as originals or certified copies.
- Curriculum of the study programmeThe full curriculum of the programme you are coming from.
- Proof you are a student in good standingConfirmation that you are enrolled now and have met the conditions to continue into the next year.
- A medical confirmation that you are physically and mentally fit for university study, dated within the last 3 months, in English or Slovak.
- A copy of your passport or ID card.
- Your high-school leaving certificate.
- Your birth certificate, as a notary-certified copy with a Slovak or English translation.
What it costs and when it is due
The transfer itself is cheap. The only real costs are the exam fee, the recognition fee and your translations.
Recognition fee: a fixed €20
You pay a small fee to have your previous courses recognised. Keep the receipt, because it is one of the documents you submit. Use variable symbol 1027 for recognition of courses and put your surname and name in the payment purpose.
Paying from inside Slovakiaview details
Paying from abroad, inside the EUview details
Paying from abroad, outside the EUview details
Your signed transfer request has to be submitted in writing.
The latest point to apply for recognition of subjects from your previous, unfinished studies.
Four steps, and we do most of the work
You will always know what is happening and what comes next. If you get stuck, message us on WhatsApp and a real person answers.
Tell us where you study now
Message us with your university, your programme and the year you are in. We tell you straight away whether a transfer is realistic and which year you would land in.
Prepare and pass the entrance exam
This is the part nobody can skip. You get the question banks, a study plan and a full mock exam from us, and we book your sitting with you.
We build your paperwork with you
The transfer request, the recognition application, transcripts, syllabi and translations. We check every page before it goes anywhere near the faculty.
Recognition, acceptance, enrolment
The faculty decides which subjects count and which year you join. We help you with the enrolment documents and with finding somewhere to live in Košice.
What transfer students ask us
Which European universities accept medical transfer students?
Can I transfer my medical or dental studies to another European university?
Do my completed courses get recognised when I transfer?
Do transfer students still take the entrance exam?
Is there a deadline to apply for a transfer?
Can I transfer in the middle of the academic year?
How much does transferring cost with Medently?
Transferring medical school in Europe: the short version
Transferring medical school is more common than people think. Students leave a programme because the teaching language turned out to be a problem, because the city did not work for them, because the fees climbed, or simply because they got into a place that suits them better. Inside the EU and EEA the degrees are comparable, so moving between faculties is a normal administrative process rather than starting again from scratch.
The two things that decide whether it works are the entrance exam and the recognition of your completed subjects. UPJŠ puts every transfer applicant through the same written exam in biology and chemistry as a first-year applicant, so that has to be planned for. Recognition is then a paperwork exercise: transcripts, syllabi and a form, reviewed by the faculty against its own curriculum, with a fixed fee of €20. Courses have to be from the last ten years, from a comparable Faculty of Medicine, and from studies you did not finish.
Medently does this with students for free. We check whether your case is realistic before you spend anything, prepare you for the exam, put the document pack together with you, and stay with you through recognition and enrolment. We are paid by the universities, not by you, so there is no agency fee at any point.
Thinking about moving? Let us check your case
Send us your university, your programme and your year. We will tell you honestly whether a transfer makes sense and which year you would land in. It costs you nothing.
