Transfer from Carol Davila University Bucharest: Where to Continue Medicine or Dentistry in 2026

What is Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest and what does it teach in English?

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, in Romanian Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Carol Davila” din București, is a public medical university in Bucharest, Romania, whose roots go back to the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy founded in 1857. For the 2026/2027 academic year its admission methodology for international students lists Medicine and Dental Medicine in English, each six years long and worth 360 ECTS.

The university also runs Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy for domestic students, and its 2026/2027 fee schedule shows a French-taught Pharmacy programme at 8,500 euro per year. Around 10,400 students were enrolled in the 2019/2020 academic year. Bucharest itself is a full-size capital with the clinical volume that comes with it.

Can you transfer from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest to another university?

Yes. Students who have completed one or more years of Medicine or Dental Medicine at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania, can continue at another university, and Medschool Experts organises that transfer. We are the leading specialist for study transfers in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, and we hold the world's largest choice of official partner universities.

What actually moves with you is your completed coursework, expressed in ECTS. Because the programme in Bucharest is built on the European credit system, the credits you already hold are readable to every partner university we work with. That is the reason a transfer out of Romania is usually a planning exercise rather than a restart.

We never ask you to give up your current place first. You stay enrolled in Bucharest until your new place is confirmed in writing.

Why do students transfer from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest?

Five reasons come up again and again in our consultations with students at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania. None of them is a complaint about the university. Each is a question of fit between a programme and one person's budget, learning style and career plan.

• Cost. At 10,000 euro per year for the English-taught programmes in 2026/2027, plus living costs in a capital city, the six-year total is substantial. Several of our partner universities sit far below that.
• A specific exam block that will not pass. Anatomy, biochemistry, physiology: sometimes a student is capable but the format and pace of one subject do not match how they learn. A different curriculum can let the same person succeed. We are specialists in exactly this situation.
• Individual professors or personal and organisational circumstances that make continuing in Bucharest hard. Family, health in the family, a move, a relationship. It happens.
• A career in the United States. Students aiming at USMLE, US clinical rotations and a US residency often want a programme built around that path from the start.
• A career in Germany. Some universities prepare for the German system particularly well, including the option of doing the final practical year in Germany.

Any one of these is a legitimate reason to look. Most students who contact us have two or three at once.

Where can Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest students transfer to?

Students leaving Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania, are usually choosing between four destinations that map onto four goals: a cheaper degree, an EU degree with a German final year, a route into the United States, or simply a curriculum whose exams fit better. The table below sets out which option serves which goal.

One point about subject: not every destination teaches every subject. Foca teaches medicine and dentistry. Varna teaches medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. Mostar is medicine only. If you are a dental student in Bucharest, that narrows the list, and we will say so straight away rather than after you have made plans.

How much can a Carol Davila University student save by transferring?

A concrete comparison. English-taught Medicine or Dental Medicine at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest costs 10,000 euro per year in 2026/2027 according to the university's own fee schedule. Living in Bucharest runs at roughly 500 to 700 euro per month on our figures for 2026, which puts the yearly total somewhere between 16,000 and 18,400 euro.

The Faculty of Medicine in Foca, part of the University of East Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, charges 3,500 euro tuition per year, with a total of about 7,500 euro per year including living costs (Medschool Experts figures, 2026). The gap is roughly 8,500 to 10,900 euro every year. A student who moves after year three and has three years left keeps somewhere around 25,500 to 32,700 euro.

Money is not the only reason to move, and for some students it is not even the main one. But it is the reason that is easiest to calculate before you decide. Foca is one of several affordable partner universities on our list.

Which year can you enter after leaving Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest?

There is no fixed ceiling. We frequently achieve high placements for students from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania, often into year 4 or year 5, and every case is reviewed individually. The aim is always the highest possible entry with no loss of time, or as little as possible.

The rule of thumb that decides it is straightforward: usually no more than two exams may still be outstanding, and the ECTS attached to those exams must stay under a maximum. Which is why the transcript matters more than the story. Send it, and we will tell you what is realistic rather than what sounds good.

Two students in the same semester can get different answers. That is not arbitrariness, it is the credit arithmetic.

How does a transfer from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest work with Medschool Experts?

Four steps, in this order, for every student leaving Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania. The sequence is designed so that you never hold an empty hand: your place in Bucharest stays yours until a confirmed offer exists elsewhere.

1. Free consultation. You tell us your year, your subject and your goal. We tell you whether a transfer makes sense and roughly where.
2. Record review. We read your transcript and your ECTS against the curricula of our partner universities and work out the highest entry point that holds up.
3. Placement offer. You receive concrete options, with the fee, the language of instruction and the entry year for each.
4. Switch with a plan. We handle the transfer to your chosen university. You stay enrolled in Bucharest until the new place is confirmed.

What we do and what it looked like for other students are both worth five minutes before your consultation.

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Does a Romanian degree from Bucharest stay recognised if you continue somewhere else in the European Union?

Recognition attaches to the university that awards your final degree, not to the ones you passed through. Romania is an EU member state, so a degree from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest is recognised across the European Union under Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. If you graduate from another EU university instead, the same directive applies to that degree.

Outside the EU it works differently, and the country you want to practise in sets the terms. For the United States that means the USMLE route and ECFMG certification. Mostar School of Medicine in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only European university that specifically prepares for USMLE Step 1 in the preclinical years and Step 2 CK in the clinical years, teaching in small groups with a better teacher-to-student ratio than other European medical schools, and with only 30 places a year. Medschool Experts places students there reliably without an entrance test as long as our own quota allows.

For Germany, the University of East Sarajevo in Foca and the EU-based Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria both prepare well, and from either one the final practical year in Germany is possible through Medschool Experts. If you want to confirm anything specific about your own future licence, ask the authority in your target country, and ask us how we have handled it before.

When should Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest students start planning a transfer?

Earlier than most students do. The sensible moment to talk to Medschool Experts about leaving Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania, is the point at which you first seriously consider it, not the point at which a resit has already gone badly. Credit arithmetic gets easier the fewer open items you carry.

In practice, two windows work best: right after a semester's exam results are in, when your ECTS position is clear, and the months before an academic year starts, when partner universities still have places. Waiting rarely improves a case. It just shortens the runway.

A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Many students have one, then stay in Bucharest with a clearer head. That is a good outcome too.