The Medical University of Varna
Admission Guide
The Medical University of Varna Entry Tests are two separate 90-minute papers in Biology and Chemistry, sat online on the same date, with equal marks per question, no deduction for a wrong answer and a ranking score out of 42. This guide is built on MU Varna's own sample papers and admission regulation.
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The MU-Varna Entrance Exam at a glance
Checked against Medical University of Varna'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 published2027 cycle not yet published; a direct recheck of mu-varna.bg on 7 October 2026 found no 2027 cycle page, and the Entry Tests page still lists the 2026 sittings
- Application deadline (2026 cycle)
- Not yet publishedClosed: the official application page set 11 September 2026 as the deadline for the full set of paper documents, including the NACID certificate. The 15 July (non-EU) and 15 September (EU) dates quoted elsewhere appear on no official page IvyTest could find
- Test sittings (2026 cycle)
- Not yet publishedFive sittings were published: 4 April, 16 May, 13 June, 16 July and 3 September 2026, all online
- EU-only sittings (2026 cycle)
- Not yet publishedThe 16 July and 3 September 2026 sittings were published as open to EU applicants only
- Application fee falls due
- Not yet publishedOne week before whichever sitting you book; there is no single fixed date, and the €340 is non-refundable
- Enrolment deadline
- Not yet publishedEnrolment deadline not yet announced
How it's scored
- Correct answer
- +1 mark; all questions carry equal marks
- Incorrect answer
- 0 marks; nothing is deducted for a wrong answer
- Unanswered question
- 0 marks
- More than one option marked
- 0 marks for that question; a hedge is scored as a miss, not as a partial answer
- Random-guess expected value
- +0.25 marks per item: (1/4 × 1) + (3/4 × 0), because there is no penalty and four options. A blank has an expected value of exactly 0, so there is no Section A question worth leaving empty
- Maximum Section A marks
- 70 across both papers (35 per paper)
- How the result is reported
- As a grade, not as a raw mark, and the raw-mark-to-grade conversion table is not published
- Ranking-score formula
- Diploma grade in the official language of your country + (Biology result × 3) + (Chemistry result × 3), to a maximum of 42.00
- Minimum eligible score
- Not yet publishedNone published. The admission regulation's parallel EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA articles each state only that the maximum score is 42.00, and neither states a minimum
- Component pass/fail rule
- A weak (fail) result on either entry test, or on the language-competency test, means you form no ranking score and do not participate in the ranking; a strong Chemistry result cannot rescue a failed Biology result
- Per-subject remedial floors
- None: Bulgaria has no counterpart to the Italian additional-learning-requirement (OFA) system
Admissions: Medical University of Varna
- Degrees
- Medicine, Dental Medicine and Pharmacy (English-taught)
- Language of instruction
- English
- Campus
- Varna Campus, Bulgaria (the entry tests themselves are sat online)
- Tuition
- €10,000 / year for Medicine and Dental Medicine and €8,000 / year for Pharmacy, for first-year students admitted in 2026/2027, as the official tuition page states; fees are set each May by government decree
- Application fee
- €340, non-refundable, due one week before your chosen test date; a retake of Biology or Chemistry costs €150 per test
- Entrance exam
- Required: Biology and Chemistry, both compulsory, both sat online
- Interview
- Not required
- English certificate
- Required as proof of English: an accepted certificate (IELTS Academic 6.5, TOEFL iBT 90, TOEFL PBT 576, PTE Academic 61, Cambridge CAE or CPE 176, FCE 190), one of the qualifications the university names (a bilingual-school diploma with a B2 English matriculation exam, the IB Diploma in English with 4 at SL or HL, or the European Baccalaureate in English with 80% in English), or the university's own English proficiency test; citizens or school-leavers of the UK, Ireland, the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand need none of these, but their diploma must show an English grade of at least "Very good" (GCSE English Language grade 6 to 9 on the British curriculum)
- Official-language grade (non-EU)
- Your school-leaving diploma's average mark in the official language of the country where you finished school must be at least 65% of that grading system's maximum; an optional language course, or language grades from university or pre-med study, do not count
- Motivation letter
- Not required
- Document requirements
- Legalisation, certified translation and apostille all required
- Bulgarian for clinical years
- Compulsory Bulgarian classes in the first three years, so that you can talk with patients from the third year onwards (Admission 2026-2027 brochure)
- Teaching hospital
- University Hospital 'St. Marina', the university's main training base, which it calls "the most modern medical and diagnostic structure in Northeastern Bulgaria" (Why MU-Varna page); the hospital's own site gives 1,292 beds and says the university has exercised the owner's rights over it since 2018
- Student body
- More than 6,900 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, about 2,000 of them international, from over 50 nationalities (Admission 2026-2027 brochure)
- Cost of living
- €500 to €700 a month by the university's own estimate, with a private flat at €250 to €550 (Admission 2026-2027 brochure), which presents Bulgaria's cost of living as low compared with other EU countries; places in its student hostels are limited
- Seats available
- Not yet publishedMU Varna publishes no seat count per programme. In 2026 it admitted 405 new first-year students to English-taught Medicine and Dental Medicine, from about 1,000 applicants in its international admission campaign (university news, 29 September 2026)
- Application process
- Direct registration with the university via its own Admissions portal for one of the published Entry Test sittings; no interview
Checked against 22 official sources, most recently on 12 October 2026. Read the full MU-Varna Entrance Exam guide →
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- The Cell as the Basis of Life
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- 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 Varna 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.
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 Varna 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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