Medical study Scholarships in Europe
Medical study scholarships opportunities in Europe and beyond are available European Countries for international medical students with excellent grade of high school results. Some international organizations also offer medical study scholarships and medical universities (in Romania for example) offer medical study scholarships based on academic performance.
Within European Economic Area (EEA), European students have the same advantages and obligations as national students. Therefore, they can get medical scholarships on the same conditions as national students. To get University scholarships in most universities, university students must seat for university entrance examination. This is available also for medical universities. Note that for most European Universities, the entrance examination is in national language and in most cases; international European students have to follow on year preparatory course of national language, prior to the entrance examination.
Medical study scholarships based on academic Excellency are offered by universities for those medical students with excellent academic records in previous academic year. Those scholarships can be full or partial scholarships, depending on the academic results. Therefore, some medical students paying the tuition fees for their studies in some European medical Universities , after the first year, they are free of tuition fees and they receive money from university.
Some European countries offer scholarships to international non-European students. Those scholarships may cover tuition fee, pocket money and accommodation. Those scholarships are offered for a Bachelor, Master or Doctorate (Residency) programs. In case students repeat one year, he loses his scholarship until he succeeds to pass in the next year.
The cheapest medical university in Europe is probably Romanian the cheapest in all EEA. Apart different scholarships, medical university tuition fees vary from 1000 to 5000 Euros/year for EEA medical students and from 3600 to 5000 Euros for non-EEA medical students.
Even if the competitively to get into medical universities in some countries is very fierce, the smooth and cheap international transport, scholarship opportunities, cheap living cost in some countries, and many others advantages and facilities of medical studies in abroad, students dreaming to become doctors realize their dreams.