Admissions procedure for medical studies in Austria: 854 women and 767 men have secured the 1,621 available places

The detailed breakdown of these university places is as follows:

• In 2017, MedUni Vienna has 740 student places and, based on the results, 391 of these have been awarded to female students and 349 to male students (52.8 %/47.2 %).
• The 400 student places available at the Medical University of Innsbruck were awarded as follows: 208 women and 192 men (52 %/ 48 %).
• The Medical University of Graz has 361 places because of two identic results. Here the breakdown is 192 women and 169 men (53.2 %/ 46.8 %).
• 120 university places are available at the Medical Faculty of JKU in Linz, 63 of which have gone to women and 57 to men (52.5 %/47.5 %).

Five years of joint MedAT
This was the fifth time that the admissions procedure was conducted at all medical universities for human medicine (MedAT-H) and dentistry (MedAT-Z) using the same tests.

The entrance exam for human medicine (Med-AT-H) is a multi-part written exam comprising the following elements:

• Basic knowledge test for medical studies: Checking of previous knowledge from school in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics
• Text comprehension test: Checking of reading ability and comprehension of texts
• Cognitive skills and abilities: This test consists of five groups of exercises (numerical sequences, memory and retentiveness, assembling figures, language proficiency and understanding implications) and covers basic cognitive skills and abilities.
• Social and emotional skills: This part of the exam consists of a group of exercises on "Social decision-making" and "Understanding emotions", covering important aspects of social and emotional skills.

The entrance exam for dentistry (MedAT-Z) is largely identical to MedAT-H, except that, in place of the text comprehension test and the section on understanding implications, manual skills are tested by exercises involving "bending wire" and "reproducing shapes".