Study MBBS in Greece

Apply on the university's own portal. Aristotle runs two rounds a year, closing on 31 January and 31 May; NKUA takes applications for September 2027 from 16 November 2026 to 31 March 2027. You will need a valid passport, your Class 12 certificate and marksheets for the last two years with official English translations, a certificate that your board gives entry to higher education in India, an English test result, a CV in English, a personal statement and any entrance exam results. NKUA also asks for an accepted score such as UCAT or MCAT, and reference letters on letterhead.

At Aristotle, sit the online admission test (60 multiple-choice questions on school Biology, Chemistry and reasoning) and the video interview. MediTest-EU or A-Levels at AAB or better on final results remove the test. If you sit the test, Aristotle takes a €1,200 deposit beforehand, fully refunded if you are not admitted. At NKUA there is no in-house test: shortlisted applicants are invited to an online interview with School of Medicine faculty. For NKUA questions, write to md.admissions@uoa.gr.

Once you have an offer, pay the deposit to secure your place. Aristotle takes €6,000 (non-refundable), which counts towards the first year, with the second instalment at the end of the winter semester. NKUA takes a €5,000 deposit, refunded only if a conditional offer is withdrawn on missed grades or a visa cannot be issued, then €6,000 before September registration and €6,000 in January. Then apply for the national long-stay type D student visa at the Greek visa centre in New Delhi, showing funds of about €650 a month. Within 90 days of arrival, apply for the residence permit for studies. Places cannot be deferred to the next year, so start the visa early. Teaching begins in September.

Graduates receive the Ptychio Iatrikis, the Greek medical degree listed at Annex V, point 5.1.1 of EU Directive 2005/36/EC, with a reference date of 1 January 1981. For EU citizens this means automatic recognition across the EU. For an Indian citizen, practising in another EU country goes through that country's own procedure for non-EU nationals.

Greece's licence to practise is applied for online on gov.gr, through the Panhellenic Medical Association, and it is open to graduates of a medical school in Greece or another EU country. A graduate of a Greek medical school, whatever their nationality, applies through the same service. Working in Greek hospitals needs good Greek, which is why Aristotle and NKUA teach it during the degree.

The six-year English-taught Greek degree meets most of the NMC rules, including more than 54 months of study and teaching in English. The open point is the internship. The NMC Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021 ask for a 12-month internship in the same foreign institution, and the Greek degree's final stage, full-time clinical training in semesters 11 and 12 at Aristotle and semesters 10 to 12 at NKUA, is built into the degree and completed before it is awarded. The NMC publishes no list of accepted universities, assesses each graduate's documents individually, and has often treated practice years inside a degree as part of the course. So after clearing the FMGE (NExT deferred and not in force), the screening exam run by NBEMS, a graduate may be asked to complete a longer internship in India to make up the difference. A student who plans to work in India should plan this with our counsellors before applying, and keep the university's written description of the final clinical training, which the State Medical Council will ask to see.

Because Greek medical schools are listed in WDOMS, graduates can follow the USMLE route to the United States through ECFMG. For the United Kingdom, the GMC lists the Ptychio Iatrikis issued by a Greek university as a relevant European qualification, so a graduate applies to the GMC for full registration directly, without PLAB. The GMC bases this route on where you qualified, not on your nationality, and says that at this time it applies under existing legislation.