Transfer from the University of Rzeszów: Where to Continue Medicine in 2026

Can you transfer from the University of Rzeszów to another medical university?

Nothing about that is exotic. Medical curricula across Europe are built on the same ECTS framework, so a receiving faculty can compare your subjects against its own year by year. What varies is how much of your record maps across, and that is settled by reading the transcript, not by guessing.

What is the University of Rzeszów and what does it teach in English?

The University of Rzeszów, in Polish Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, is a public university in Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland, established on 1 September 2001. Its Faculty of Medicine runs Medicine as a six-year, full-time programme taught in English, worth 364 ECTS and leading to the MD degree.

The English-language Medicine programme has been running since 2018, and its first cohort graduated in 2024. Clinical teaching is tied to the Fryderyk Chopin University Hospital, which came under the university in 2023. Medicine is the only medical subject taught in English there: dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine are not part of the English-language offer. That shapes every destination we propose, because each one has to teach medicine too. Fees, structure and city details sit in our full profile of the University of Rzeszów.

Failed exams at the University of Rzeszów — what are your options?

Students who have failed exams at the University of Rzeszów in Poland have three realistic options in 2026: resit at the university, repeat the academic year, or transfer to a medical faculty whose examination format and pace fit them better. Medschool Experts assesses which of the three loses the least time.

Failing a subject says less than people assume. Anatomy, biochemistry and physiology are dense wherever you sit them, and a capable student can stall on one of them because the assessment style does not match how they work. Smaller cohorts, more frequent assessment and closer contact with examiners change that picture for a lot of people. Students who have failed a year at the University of Rzeszów also still hold everything they passed before it, and those credits do not evaporate.

Rzeszów students who want to change university: what drives the decision?

Rzeszów students who want to change university do so for reasons of fit and planning, not because anything is wrong with the teaching at the University of Rzeszów in Poland. Five motives recur in our consultations in 2026, and four of them have nothing to do with the university itself.

• Cost. At 7,250 EUR per semester, tuition alone reaches 87,000 EUR across twelve semesters. Some families plan that in from the start. Others want a cheaper path to the same degree.
• Specific examinations. The format or the pace does not match how someone works, and a faculty with a different rhythm solves it. We specialise in exactly this.
• Personal or organisational circumstances. Difficulties with an individual lecturer, a family situation at home, health, or a city that did not turn out to suit that person.
• A career in the United States. Students aiming at the USMLE and a US residency want teaching built around that route, not merely compatible with it.
• A career in Germany. Some faculties prepare unusually well for practising in Germany, including the option of doing the final practical year there.

Transfer from the University of Rzeszów: which universities accept transfer students?

Universities that accept transfer students from the University of Rzeszów in Poland are chosen by goal, not by ranking. Because Rzeszów teaches only medicine in English, every destination is a medical faculty. In 2026 the five routes below cover almost every case Medschool Experts handles.

Two entries need a sentence of their own. The USMLE-focused programme at Mostar School of Medicine in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only one in Europe built specifically around the USMLE, covering Step 1 in the preclinical years and Step 2 CK during clinical rotations, in small groups with a better teacher-to-student ratio than other European medical schools and only 30 places a year. We place students there reliably and without an entrance test, as far as our own quota allows. For a cheaper route, you can transfer to a more affordable university in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to stay inside the EU you can continue at the Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria. Everything else is in our full list of partner universities.

How do credits from the University of Rzeszów transfer to another university?

Credits from the University of Rzeszów transfer to another university through curriculum mapping: the receiving faculty compares your transcript of records, subject by subject and ECTS by ECTS, against its own curriculum, then grants advanced standing into the year where the match ends. Medschool Experts does that comparison first, before anything is submitted.

In practice, credit transfer turns on three things. How many ECTS sit behind each passed subject; whether the syllabus content overlaps enough to count; and how many examinations are still open. Preclinical subjects such as anatomy, histology and biochemistry usually map cleanly because they are standardised across European faculties. Clinical rotations map well too, though the receiving faculty may ask where and for how long they were completed. Nothing here is automatic, and no agency can promise a fixed number of credits in advance.

Keep everything. Every semester certificate, every grade report, every syllabus. They are the raw material of a credit assessment and they are unpleasant to reconstruct later.

Which year can you enter when you transfer from the University of Rzeszów?

There is no cap and no standard answer. Medschool Experts frequently achieves high placements for students leaving the University of Rzeszów in Poland, often into year four or year five. Every record is reviewed individually in 2026, and the aim is the highest possible entry with no loss of time, or as little as can be managed.

So the real version of the question students ask us, which year can I transfer into, is answered from a document rather than from a semester number. A transfer without losing a year is the goal in every case we take on. Two people in the same third-year cohort can land in different places.

Is it cheaper to transfer from the University of Rzeszów?

For most students, yes. Tuition at the University of Rzeszów in Poland is 7,250 EUR per semester, or 14,500 EUR per academic year in 2026. At the Faculty of Medicine Foča in Bosnia and Herzegovina it is 3,500 EUR per year in 2026. That is 11,000 EUR of difference for every remaining year.

Work it through. A student who moves after two completed years still has four years ahead, so a transfer from the University of Rzeszów to a cheaper university is worth 44,000 EUR on tuition alone; counting living costs on both sides, the gap sits closer to 45,000 to 49,000 EUR. Move after three years and it is still well over 30,000 EUR. Ask each university to confirm its own fee in writing before you decide anything.

Cost is not the only axis, and for some students it is not even the main one. But it is the one that can be calculated exactly, so it is worth calculating.

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How does a medical school transfer from Rzeszów work with Medschool Experts?

A medical school transfer from Rzeszów runs through four steps at Medschool Experts: a free consultation, a review of your academic record, a concrete placement offer naming a university and a year, and the switch itself. Students stay enrolled at the University of Rzeszów until the new place is confirmed in writing.

The consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We will tell you when transferring is the wrong move; that happens, and saying so is more useful than a sale. We do not publish admission requirements on this page, because they differ per university and per record. Get in touch and we check your profile against the partner network instead. There is more on how our placement service works, and there are stories from students who have already changed university.

Can you transfer from the University of Rzeszów to Germany?

Not directly into a German faculty through us, but the German career goal is reachable. Students leaving the University of Rzeszów in Poland can continue at the Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria or the Faculty of Medicine Foča in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and complete the final practical year in Germany through Medschool Experts in 2026.

The recognition picture matters here, and it is worth being precise. Poland is a member of the European Union, so a medical degree from the University of Rzeszów is automatically recognised throughout the EU under Directive 2005/36/EC, with no equivalence assessment and no knowledge test. Varna is an EU university, so a degree from Varna carries exactly the same automatic recognition. Degrees from countries outside the EU, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, are recognised through a national assessment instead. Neither route is better in the abstract; they are better or worse for a specific plan.

One detail about Poland specifically. The Polish state examination LEK and the practical year staż are needed only for licensing in Poland itself, not for recognition elsewhere in the EU. Most countries will, however, ask for proof of the national language at medical level before they license you.

Thinking about leaving the University of Rzeszów? The alternatives to dropping out of medicine

Students thinking about leaving the University of Rzeszów in Poland rarely want to leave medicine. In 2026 the realistic alternatives to dropping out are a resit, a repeated academic year, or a move to a partner faculty that grants advanced standing for the ECTS already earned. Medschool Experts helps identify which one applies.

Dropping out is the expensive option, because it writes off credits that another faculty would have counted. Even a year that felt like a loss usually contains passed subjects with ECTS attached, and those are assets. Before anyone decides anything, the transcript should be read by someone who knows what a receiving faculty does with it. That reading is free and it takes one conversation.

When should Rzeszów students start planning a transfer?

Rzeszów students should start planning as soon as the question is genuinely on the table, ideally at the end of an academic year in which examinations have just been passed. A clean, recent transcript of records is the strongest version of an academic file, and a strong file buys a higher entry year at the receiving faculty.

Waiting has one specific cost. Outstanding examinations accumulate, and once too many are open the rule of thumb above starts to bite, which narrows the range of years a receiving faculty can offer. Early is cheaper. Early is also calmer, because it lets us look at several partner universities properly rather than at whichever one still has room.

If the thought keeps returning, treat it as information rather than as a failure. Book a free consultation and we will tell you what your record is actually worth.