(Vienna/Innsbruck/Graz/Linz, 23 April 2025) The registration deadline for participation in the joint admission procedures of the Medical Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz and the Faculty of Medicine at Johannes Kepler University Linz ended at the end of March. By the end of March 2025, a total of 15,668 people had bindingly registered for the MedAT on July 4. In the previous year, there were 15,158 binding registrations.
The application figures for the MedAT 2025 in detail:
Medical University of Vienna: A total of 7,729 applications (2024: 7,384) - 6,940 for human medicine, 789 for dentistry. Of these, 2,835 are men (2024: 2,708) and 4,894 women (2024: 4,676).
Medical University of Innsbruck: A total of 3,238 applications (2024: 3,196) - 2,917 for human medicine, 321 for dentistry. Of these, 1,163 are men (2024: 1,117) and 2,075 women (2024: 2,079).
Medical University of Graz: A total of 2,617 applications (2024: 2,603), 2,381 for human medicine, 236 for dentistry. Of these, 991 are men (2024: 957) and 1,626 women (2024: 1,646).
Faculty of Medicine at the JKU Linz: A total of 2,084 applications (2024: 1,975). Of these, 782 are men (2024: 731) and 1,302 women (2024: 1,244).
Contents of the MedAT-H and MedAT-Z admission tests
The admission test for human medicine (MedAT-H) is a multi-part written procedure and is divided into the following sections:
• Basic knowledge test for medical studies: testing of previous school knowledge in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.
• Text comprehension: testing reading skills and comprehension of texts.
• Cognitive abilities and skills: This part of the test consists of five groups of tasks (putting figures together, number sequences, word fluency, memory and retention, and recognizing implications) and measures basic cognitive abilities and skills.
• Social-emotional skills: This part of the test consists of the task groups Recognizing Emotions, Regulating Emotions and Social Decision-Making, which cover key aspects of social-emotional skills.
The admission test for dentistry (MedAT-Z) is largely identical to the MedAT-H. Instead of the text comprehension section and the Recognizing Implications group of tasks, the Wire Bending and Mirroring Shapes groups of tasks are used in the Manual Skills section of the test.
A total of 1,900 study places
For the academic year 2025/26, a total of 1,900 study places are available for human medicine and dentistry, including 772 at the Medical University of Vienna, 420 at the Medical University of Innsbruck, 388 at the Medical University of Graz and 320 at the Medical Faculty of the JKU Linz (in Linz only human medicine). At least 95 percent of study places are reserved for EU citizens and persons of equal status with regard to access to studies and at least 75 percent of study places are reserved for applicants with a school-leaving certificate from Austria. However, this quota regulation only applies to the allocation of study places in human medicine. In the academic year 2025/26, up to 85 human medicine places of the 1,900 medicine study places will be available for tasks in the public interest for the federal states, the Austrian Health Insurance Fund, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Defense. Applicants who wish to apply for such a study place must take part in the regular application for the desired location and undertake to actually perform the tasks in the public interest as part of an agreement with the respective institution. A minimum performance in the entrance test must be achieved in order to obtain these study places. Further details can also be found at www.medizinstudieren.at.
Dates of the Human Medicine and Dentistry 2025 entrance exams:
Friday, July 4, 2025: MedAT entrance test in Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz and Wels for the Linz location
In the 32nd calendar week of 2025: Announcement of the test results