The Medical University of Pleven
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The Medical University of Pleven Entrance Examinations are two papers, Biology and Chemistry, each with 40 multiple-choice questions in Part A and a written short-answer Part B, for an English-taught Medicine programme that starts in February. This guide is built on MU-Pleven's own published admissions pages and syllabus.
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The MU-Pleven Entrance Exam at a glance
Checked against Medical University of Pleven's own published rules. Where something isn't published yet, we say so rather than guess.
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Dates, scoring and admissions
Key dates
- Next application round
- Not yet publishedThe round for the February 2028 intake is not yet published; the round for the February 2027 intake, below, is the current one
- Online applications (February 2027 intake)
- 1 June to 1 October 2026Through MU-Pleven's e-application system; the application form is then printed, signed and sent with the documents. The university's FAQ gives 1 October 2026 as the application deadline.
- Hard-copy document deadline (February 2027 intake)
- 30 October 2026 (non-EU/EEA) · 30 November 2026 (EU/EEA)Documents go to the International Student Center in person, through an authorised representative, or by post or courier.
- Online entry-exam dates (February 2027 intake)
- 23 June, 17 September, 8 October, 28 October and 17 November 2026Both papers are sat on the same day. Register at least one week before your chosen date; you need a computer, camera, microphone, headphones and a connection of at least 20 Mbps each way.
- Programme start
- Not yet publishedFebruary 2027: the first-year academic year for English-taught students starts in February and finishes in December, but no exact start day is published
- Enrolment deadline
- Not yet publishedEnrolment deadline not yet announced
How it's scored
- Correct answer
- Not yet publishedNot published; IvyTest works from +1 mark per correct answer as a neutral assumption
- Incorrect answer
- Not yet publishedNot published: no statement exists on whether wrong answers are penalised; IvyTest works from 0, i.e. no penalty
- Unanswered question
- Not yet publishedNot published; assumed 0 under the same neutral scheme
- Answer options
- 4 (A-D) on most items; a minority of Biology items give only three (A-C), and some Chemistry items are combination items grouping statements, such as 'A and C'
- Correct answers per item
- Exactly one, including on the combination items; the grouping is the answer, not a multi-select
- Random-guess expected value
- +0.25 marks on a four-option item and +0.33 on a three-option one, but only if there is genuinely no penalty, which the university has never confirmed
- Maximum Part A marks
- 80 across both papers (40 per paper), under the assumed one-mark-per-item scheme
- Minimum eligible score
- Not yet publishedNot published for the English-taught track. The 24-out-of-42 figure that appears on mu-pleven.bg belongs to the Bulgarian-citizen national admission route, a different track with a different formula
- Ranking-score formula
- School-leaving grade in the official language of your country, converted to the Bulgarian six-point scale, + (Biology result × 3) + (Chemistry result × 3), to a maximum of 42
- Raw-mark-to-grade conversion
- Not yet publishedNot published; the table that turns a Part A mark into the grade the ranking formula uses does not appear in any official source
- Per-subject remedial floors
- None: Bulgaria has no counterpart to the Italian additional-learning-requirement (OFA) system
Admissions: Medical University of Pleven
- Degree
- Medicine (English-taught, 6-year), the first English-taught Medicine programme in Bulgaria, launched in 1997
- Language of instruction
- English
- Campus
- Pleven Campus, Bulgaria; the entrance exams are held face to face or online, and the published February 2027 sittings are online
- Intake
- February, unlike most Bulgarian medical schools
- Tuition
- €9,000 / yearPaid in two equal parts at the start of each semester (Expense Guide 2026/2027); the one-year English preparatory course costs €4,000
- Application fee
- €240, non-refundable: a €40 registration fee plus a €200 entry-exams fee, per MU-Pleven's Expense Guide 2026/2027
- Entrance exam
- Required: Biology and Chemistry, both compulsory, both sat on the same date
- Interview
- Not required
- English certificate
- B2 or above, required from candidates coming from countries where English is not an official language; the university offers a one-year preparatory course to those who cannot meet it
- Motivation letter
- Not required
- Document requirements
- A validation of your secondary-school certificate against the Bulgarian system, applied for directly with NACID, plus legalisation, certified translation and apostille
- Bulgarian for clinical years
- Compulsory Bulgarian classes, 6 hours a week, in the first three years, so that you can talk with patients in the University Hospital through the clinical study that begins in year 3
- Teaching hospital
- Dr. Georgi Stranski University Hospital (over 1,000 beds)
- Student body
- Over 3,000 international students from more than 50 countries, as MU-Pleven put it in August 2025; no current total enrolment is published
- Competitiveness
- Not published: MU-Pleven gives no applicant numbers, seat count or admission rate for Medicine in English
- Application process
- Direct application through the university; no separate Call for Admission is issued, and no interview is required
- School-leaving language grade
- At least 62% of the maximum mark in the official language of the country where you finished secondary school; that grade also enters the ranking formula
Checked against 26 official sources, most recently on 12 October 2026. Read the full MU-Pleven Entrance Exam guide →
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Every section is developed directly from Medical University of Pleven's published syllabus and official exam criteria, cross-referenced against multiple years of past-paper data for accuracy.
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Revised every cycle
When Medical University of Pleven updates its syllabus or exam structure, the guide is reviewed and revised to match before the next admissions cycle.
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Biology
5 topics- The Chemistry of Living Things
- The Cell as the Basis of Life
- Bioenergetics
- Reproduction and Inheritance
- Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology
Chemistry
5 topics- Structure of Matter and the Periodic Table
- Chemical Bonding and Properties of Matter
- Stoichiometry and Chemical Reactions
- Equilibria, Acids-Bases, and Redox
- Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
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Yes. Medical University of Pleven delivers Medicine in English and runs its admission process in the same language.
It depends on the school and the cycle. Several universities (Varna, Zlatarov, and Pleven in recent cycles) run the exam fully online and remotely proctored; Sofia University's programme page does not say where its exam is sat. Check the current cycle's format for your target school; this guide notes it where published.
At some schools, yes. Medical University of Sofia's combined exam includes an English component, and Medical University of Varna runs a separate language-competency test alongside its two science papers. Medical University of Plovdiv and Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov University set an English diagnostic test only for candidates who don't already hold an accepted English certificate. Not every Bulgarian school tests English at all.
MU-Pleven publishes no applicant numbers, seat count or admission rate, so there is no official measure. The published bar is at least 62% in the official language of your country and a pass in both entrance exams. Selectivity varies genuinely by Bulgarian school; don't assume every one is equally easy to get into.
No separate national board exam. Bulgaria's state exam is built into the final year of the six-year degree itself, followed by free, indefinite registration in the National Register of the Bulgarian Medical Association (BLS).
Yes, it's the 2027 edition, built from the latest admission rules Medical University of Pleven has published. Where a 2027 date or detail isn't published yet, confirm it with the university before you rely on it.
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