(Vienna/Innsbruck/Graz/Linz, 21-04-2023). At the end of March, the application deadline passed for participation in the joint admission procedures of the Medical Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz, as well as the Medical Faculty of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, which took place for the 11th time this year. A total of 15,400 candidates bindingly registered for the admission procedures on 7th July (as at 31st March 2023). In March 2022, there were 15,788 binding enrolments.
The Numbers of Registrations in Detail
Medical University of Vienna: A total of 7,537 registrations (2022: 7,881) – 6,842 for Human Medicine, 695 for Dentistry, of which 2,703 are men (2022: 2,889) and 4,834 women (2022: 4,992).
Medical University of Innsbruck: A total of 3,200 registrations (2022: 3,350) – 2,885 for Human Medicine, 315 for Dentistry, of which 1,125 are men (2022: 1,211) and 2,075 women (2022: 2,139).
Medical University of Graz: A total of 2,589 registrations (2022: 2,650), 2,401 for Human Medicine, 188 for Dentistry, of which 963 are men (2022: 962) and 1,626 women (2022: 1,688).
Medical Faculty of the JKU Linz: A total of 2,074 registrations (2022: 1,907), of which 769 are men (2022: 689) and 1,305 women (2022: 1,218).
Content of the Admission Tests, MedAT-H and MedAT-Z
The admission test for Human Medicine (MedAT-H) is a multipart, written procedure and is divided into the following sections:
- Basic knowledge test, medical studies: Assessment of previous school knowledge in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.
- Text comprehension: Assessment of reading competence and text comprehension.
- Cognitive abilities and skills: This part of the test consists of five groups of tasks (assembling figures, number sequences, word-fluency, memory and retentiveness, as well as recognising implications), and measures basic cognitive abilities and skills.
- Social and emotional competence: This part of the test consists of the task groups of regulating emotions, recognising emotions, and social decision-making which encompass essential aspects of social and emotional competence.
The admission test for Dentistry (MedAT-Z) is largely identical to the MedAT-H. However, instead of the text comprehension test and the recognising implications task group, wire-bending and mirroring shapes are used in the manual skills test section.
A total of 1,850 study places
There are 1,850 study places available for Human Medicine and Dentistry studies in the 2023/24 study year, of which 760 are at the Medical University of Vienna, 410 at the Medical University of Innsbruck, 370 at the Medical University Graz, and 310 at the Medical Faculty of the JKU Linz. A minimum of 95 percent of the study places are reserved for EU-citizens and people of equal status as regards admission to study, and at least 75% of the study places are reserved for applicants with a secondary school leaving certificate from Austria. However, this quota regulation only applies to the allocation of study places in Human Medicine.
Dates of the Admission Procedure, Human Medicine and Dentistry 2023:
Friday, 7th July 2023: Admission tests, MedAT in Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz and Linz
In week 32 of 2023: Announcement of the test results