Student questions, answered plainly

The only reliable figure is the university's own fee schedule for your programme and intake. When you read it, check the academic year, the currency, and whether the fee is per year, per semester or for the whole programme. Ask what it includes, for example a preparatory course, accommodation, insurance or a medical examination. Fees for different years, currencies or programmes cannot be compared directly. Our tuition fees guide shows how to read a fee schedule. We show a university's fee only after reading it on that schedule, with the date we checked it.

Check the length on the university's own programme page for your intake; we do not give a general figure. Look at the number of years of study, whether a preparatory year or an internship is counted separately, and the exact title of the qualification. “MBBS” is how many applicants search, but each university awards its own qualification title. We show a programme's length on a university's profile only after reading it there. See also medicine (MBBS) in Ukraine.

It depends on the university, the programme, your school-leaving qualification and the intake, so there is no universal answer. On the university's programme page or admission rules, check which subjects it asks for, the minimum grades and the grading scale it uses, and whether there is an entrance test or interview. The admissions guide lists the checks to make, and you can ask us about a specific programme in your candidate profile.

If you plan to practise in India, check two things before you apply. First, read the current rules of India's National Medical Commission (NMC) on its own website, including anything they say about NEET: the NMC, not a Ukrainian university or an agent, decides what it requires of doctors who studied abroad. Second, ask the university whether it asks for a NEET result in its own admission requirements, and keep its answer in writing. We do not summarise the NMC's rules here.

In India, the National Medical Commission (NMC) sets the rules that doctors who studied abroad must meet before they can register to practise; no university, agent or website, including this one, decides that. Read the NMC's current rules on its own website before you apply, check your chosen programme against them, and keep a note of what you read and when. If anything is unclear, ask the NMC. We do not publish recognition claims.

That is decided by the regulator for your profession in the country where you plan to work, not by the university, an agent or us. Find that regulator's own website, read what it currently asks of doctors who qualified abroad, and check your chosen programme against it before you apply. We do not publish recognition claims for any country.

You send us a free candidate profile through the Apply Online form: your course, your qualifications so far and your questions. We reply by email with answers and the next steps we suggest, and we tell you plainly which facts about a university we have not yet verified. We can also answer questions about your documents, such as translations, notarisation and legalisation. Nothing is sent to a university without your confirmation.

No. Starting an application on this site is free and does not commit you to anything. Any fee for our own support services would be stated in writing before you choose it.

No. Your candidate profile comes only to us: it is an enquiry, not an application. An official application is made only through the university's own procedure, at the last of the four stages of an application.

No. Admission decisions are made solely by the university. We do not and cannot guarantee admission, a visa, a scholarship or recognition of a qualification.

Yes. In the Apply Online form, choose “A university not listed here” and type its name. We will tell you what we have and have not been able to check about it.

Use the domain the university publishes about itself, or a Ukrainian government register, not an advert or an agency's copy of the site. Some websites use a university's name in their address without being the university, so check the address before you send anything. Send documents and payments only through the university's own published procedure. More in the admissions guide.

No. Ukraine Medical Admissions is an independent service and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any university or government body.

It means we have not yet confirmed that university's facts from its official website or a Ukrainian government register. It is not a judgement about the university. Until we have, our directory shows its name only, with no fees, programmes, dates or entry requirements.

Only from the university's official website, its published fee schedules and admissions documents, or Ukrainian government sources. A fact is shown as verified, with its source and the date we checked it, only after we have read it there.

Because we have not yet verified them from an official source, and we would rather show a gap than a guessed or outdated figure. If you need that fact now, ask us in your candidate profile and we will tell you whether we have been able to check it.