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

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 (study.gov.pl, 2026).

The English-language Medicine programme has been running since 2018, and its first cohort graduated in 2024 (University of Rzeszów, 2026). Clinical teaching is tied to the Fryderyk Chopin University Hospital, which came under the university in 2023. Medicine is the only medical subject the university teaches in English: dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine are not part of the English-language offer. That matters for a transfer, because any destination we propose has to teach medicine as well. Our own profile of the location, with fees, structure and city information, sits on the University of Rzeszów page.

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

Yes. A student enrolled in Medicine at the University of Rzeszów in Poland can move to another medical faculty abroad and complete the same six-year degree there. Medschool Experts is the leading specialist for study transfers in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, with the world's largest choice of official partner universities.

What makes a transfer work is not a clever application. It is arithmetic. A receiving faculty compares the subjects you have passed and the ECTS behind them against its own curriculum, then names the year it can admit you into. Our job is to know, before you apply anywhere, which of our partner universities will name the highest year for your particular record. We check that against the whole network, not against one favourite.

Why do students transfer from the University of Rzeszów?

Students leave the University of Rzeszów in Poland for reasons of fit and planning, not because anything is wrong with the teaching there. In practice five reasons come up again and again in our consultations, and four of them have nothing to do with the university itself. They have to do with money, with how someone learns, and with where they want to work.

• 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 reach year two and want a cheaper path to the same degree.
• Specific examinations. A student can be entirely capable and still keep stalling on one subject, because the format or the pace does not match how they work. A faculty with smaller cohorts and a different rhythm often solves it. This is something we specialise in.
• Personal or organisational circumstances. Difficulties with an individual lecturer, a family situation at home, health, or simply a city that did not turn out to be liveable for that person.
• A career in the United States. Students who want to sit the USMLE and apply for a US residency often want teaching that is built around that route rather than one that merely permits it.
• A career in Germany. Some faculties prepare unusually well for practising in Germany, including the option of doing the final practical year there.

Where can University of Rzeszów students transfer to?

Destinations for a University of Rzeszów student depend entirely on the goal behind the move, and because Rzeszów teaches only medicine in English, every destination must be a medical faculty. The five routes below cover almost every case that reaches us: lower cost, a better examination fit, the United States, Germany, and keeping an EU degree.

Two of these deserve a word. Mostar School of Medicine in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only European university that specifically prepares students for the USMLE, covering Step 1 in the preclinical years and Step 2 CK in the clinical years, in small groups with a better teacher-to-student ratio than other European medical schools. It has only 30 places a year. Medschool Experts places students there reliably and without an entrance test, as long as our own quota allows it. For Germany, the Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria and the Faculty of Medicine Foča both allow the final practical year to be completed in Germany through us. You can read more on the Varna page and the Foča page, or browse the full list of partner universities.

How much can a University of Rzeszów student save by transferring?

Tuition at the University of Rzeszów is 7,250 EUR per semester, which is 14,500 EUR per academic year (study.gov.pl, 2026). Tuition at the Faculty of Medicine Foča, part of the University of East Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is 3,500 EUR per year (Medschool Experts figures, 2026). The gap is 11,000 EUR every year you still have to study.

Work it through for a real case. A student who transfers after two completed years still has four years of the programme ahead. On tuition alone that is 44,000 EUR of difference; counting living costs on both sides, the gap sits closer to 45,000 to 49,000 EUR. Transfer after three years and it is still well over 30,000 EUR. These are our figures for Foča and the Polish government portal's figures for Rzeszów, both from 2026; 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.

Which year can you enter after leaving the University of Rzeszów?

There is no standard answer and no cap. 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, and the aim is always the highest year possible with no loss of time, or as little as can be managed.

One practical point. Keep every semester certificate, every grade report and every syllabus you are given. They are the raw material of a credit assessment and they are unpleasant to reconstruct later.

How does a transfer from the University of Rzeszów work with Medschool Experts?

A transfer from the University of Rzeszów runs through four steps at Medschool Experts: a free consultation, a review of your academic record, a concrete placement offer, and the switch itself. You stay enrolled in Rzeszów the whole time, until your new place is confirmed in writing. Nothing is given up on a maybe.

The consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We will tell you if transferring is the wrong move for you; that happens, and saying so is more useful than a sale. When it is the right move, the offer we make names a university and names a year, so you can weigh it against staying. We do not publish admission requirements here, because they differ per university and per record. Get in touch and we will check your profile against the partner network instead. More on how we work is on our services page, and you can read what students say on our student stories page.

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Does a Polish degree already recognised across the EU change the decision?

It changes the trade-off, and it is worth being clear about it. 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. That is a real asset, and it is one of the things you are weighing when you consider a move.

If automatic EU recognition is your priority, then the answer is to transfer within the EU. The Medical University of Varna in Bulgaria is an EU university, so a degree from Varna carries exactly the same automatic recognition as a degree from Rzeszów. If your plan points to the United States instead, automatic EU recognition matters far less than preparation for the USMLE, and a school outside the EU can be the better instrument. Degrees from countries outside the EU, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, are recognised through a national assessment rather than automatically. Neither route is better in the abstract. They are better or worse for a specific plan, which is why we start by asking where you want to work rather than where you want to study.

One more thing about Poland specifically. The Polish state examination LEK and the practical year staż are needed only if you want to be licensed as a doctor in Poland. They are not a condition of recognition elsewhere in the EU. Most countries will, however, ask for proof of the national language at medical level before they license you.

When should University of Rzeszów students start planning a transfer?

The best moment to start planning a transfer from the University of Rzeszów is as soon as the question is genuinely on the table, and ideally at the end of a semester in which you have just passed examinations. A clean, recent transcript is the strongest version of your record, and a strong record buys a higher entry year.

Waiting has one specific cost. Outstanding examinations accumulate, and once too many are open the rule of thumb described 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 you are somewhere between year one and year five in Rzeszów and 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.