Transfer from Pécs back to Germany: Credit Recognition for Higher Semesters

How many subject semesters from Pécs are recognised in Germany?

Students from Pécs University, Faculty of Medicine who have completed two semesters are typically recognised for 1 subject semester, after three semesters for 1 to 2, after four semesters for 4, and after five semesters likewise for 4. These are experience-based values from transfer processes we have accompanied. They are not a guarantee. The decision rests with the competent state examination office in each individual case.

What these values look like across all our locations, and where they come from, is set out in the overview Transferring back to Germany: credit recognition and higher subject semesters. What they mean for you personally depends on which modules you have actually passed in Pécs – which is why we look at each case individually rather than publishing a formula.

Why higher-semester places in Germany are the bottleneck

In principle, a higher subject semester in medicine can be studied at any German university that runs the programme – provided a place has become free. That is the whole difficulty. Places in higher semesters only exist where someone else has left, and how many appear in a given semester fluctuates from year to year and from faculty to faculty. Nobody can predict it as a blanket figure, and no ranking of universities changes that.

German universities also allocate what does become free according to a fixed order: hardship cases first, then place-changers, then lateral entrants, and only then a lottery. You count as a place-changer if you were already enrolled in the same subject at another university – in Pécs, for instance – and simply want to change location without changing subject. That classification usually puts you in a better position than a classic lateral entrant, but it is still a queue for a scarce good.

One structural limit applies everywhere: entry directly into the final year of study is not possible at any European university, because the final institution bears training responsibility for that year. A transfer is therefore realistic up to the fifth year of study in human medicine and up to the fourth year in dentistry.

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Where does that leave you – and what do we do about it?

We deliberately do not publish requirement lists, document checklists or dates on this page. They differ from one federal state and one university to the next, they move every year, and a list that was right last summer quietly misleads this one. Following an outdated list is how students lose a semester.

Instead, send us your profile: your transcripts and module content from Pécs, how far you have got, and where you would like to end up. We check what your highest possible point of entry is – in Germany and, just as importantly, across our partner universities elsewhere, where an entry in one of the final study years is often possible. Then you know what is realistic instead of what is theoretically conceivable.

Medschool Experts holds the largest selection of official partner universities for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and veterinary medicine, which is why a transfer conversation with us rarely has only one answer. In a free consultation you can get a first orientation from your current stage of studies in Pécs, and a free consultation gives you the individual picture.

How does Medschool Experts support a transfer from Pécs?

Medschool Experts guides students from Pécs through the whole route: from the first realistic assessment of what can be recognised, through the work with the competent authorities, to the choice of university and subject semester. The experience gathered from many transfers already accompanied is what makes expectations realistic – and it saves you time, effort and, not least, semesters.

It was founded by Marcel Kloos. He is today a federally recognised dentist in Switzerland and the founder of Medschool Experts in Bern. His path began in 2015, at the age of 24, when he took up the study of medicine and dentistry in Sofia, completing it in 2021.

A free consultation is usually the simplest first step. It costs nothing. It helps to assess your own situation and to see which subject semester, at which university, is realistically within reach from your current stage of studies in Pécs.