17,823 Prospective Students Sign Up for the MedAT Admissions Examination

The registration period to sign up for the entrance examination to medical studies at medical universities in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz as well as at the JKU Faculty of Medicine ended on March 31, 2021.

A total of 17, 823 prospective students signed up to take the entrance examination on July 21. Last year at the end of March 2020, 17,600 prospective students signed up to take the examination.

A Closer Look at the Numbers:

Medical University of Vienna: A total of 8,713 prospective students registered (2020: 8,620) - 8,044 for Human Medicine, 669 for Dentistry; of these, 3,120 are men (2020: 3,137), 5,587 are women (2020: 5,481), and 6 are diverse (2020: 2).

Medical University of Innsbruck: A total of 3,951 prospective students registered (2020: 4,009) - 3,620 for Human Medicine, 331 for dentistry; of these, 1,395 are men (2020: 1,492) and 2,555 are women (2020: 2,517) and 1 is diverse (2020: 0).

Medical University of Graz: A total of 2,936 prospective students registered (2020: 3,139), 2,759 for Human Medicine, 177 for Dentistry, of these, 1,097 are men (2020: 1,191) and 1,839 are women (2020: 1,948).

Faculty of Medicine at the JKU Linz: A total of 2,223 prospective students registered (2020: 1,832); of these, 850 are men (2020: 698), 1,373 are women (2020: 1,133), and 0 are diverse (2020: 1).


MedAT-H and MedAT-Z Examination – Content Overview
The entrance examination for Human Medicine (MedAT-H) is a multi-section, written examination divided as follows:

Basic understanding to study medicine: Test of previous scholastic academics in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Text comprehension: Test of reading skills and understanding texts.

Cognitive skills and abilities: This section consists of five groups of tasks (assembling figures, number sequences, word fluency, memory and retention, and recognizing implications).

Social-emotional skills: This section consists of task groups to recognize emotions and social decision making to capture essential aspects of social-emotional competencies.

For the most part, the entrance examination for dentistry (MedAT-Z) is fairly identical to the MedAT-H examination. However, instead of the text comprehension section and the “recognizing implications” task, prospective students are asked to complete tasks in the manual skills section, such as wire bending and mirroring shapes..

A total of 1,740 spots in the medical degree program

A total of 1,740 spots are available in the degree programs for human medicine and dentistry for the 2021/2022 academic year. The allocation of those spots are as follows: 740 at the Medical University of Vienna, 400 at the Medical University of Innsbruck, 360 at the Medical University of Graz, and 240 at the JKU’s Faculty of Medicine. A minimum of 95 % of spots in the program are reserved for EU nationals and those who have the same status as EU nationals in regard to access to university studies, and a minimum of 75% of spots in the program are reserved for applicants who hold Austrian secondary school leaving certificates. This quota, however, applies only to allocating spots in the medical degree program.

2021 Entrance Examination Dates for Human Medicine and Dentistry:
Wednesday, July 21, 2021: MedAT entrance examination in Vienna/Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Linz; end of 33rd calendar week 2021: test results will be made available. See: www.medizinstudieren.at, opens an external URL in a new window for detailed information.