MedAT 2027: registration, test sections and preparation for the Austrian medical admission test

To study medicine or dentistry at a public university in Austria, you need a place through the MedAT. It is the shared admission test of the Medical Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz and the Faculty of Medicine at JKU Linz. Places go by test score alone; school grades do not count. You can sit it in your final school year and as often as you like, but it runs once a year, in German only, and only in person.¹

The universities run no preparation course. They publish free official learning materials, and the rest is up to you.²

MedAT 2027 dates and registration

The provisional dates for 2027 are: registration and fee payment from 1 to 31 March 2027, the test on Friday 9 July 2027, results in calendar week 32, and enrolment after that.¹

The final dates are announced around the turn of the year, once the regulation is published. Put March in your calendar now anyway: registration is only possible within the window, and missing it means waiting a full year.²

You register online with the university where you want to study. You choose medicine or dentistry and, for medicine only, your quota group: Austria, EU or non-EU. In 2026 registration ran from 2 to 31 March.³

Your registration only counts once the €110 fee has arrived in full before the deadline. It is not refunded, even if you miss the test. If you try again the next year, you register from scratch and get a new application number.²

You do not need your school-leaving certificate to take part: being in year 12 or 13 when you register is enough. You show the certificate at enrolment, once you have a place.¹

You can also sit the test without school Latin. The supplementary Latin exam is taken later, during your studies.²

The four sections of the MedAT-H

The medicine test has four sections, all multiple choice. Your total is the share of correct answers in each section, multiplied by that section's weight and added up.

In BMS, TV and KFF a right answer earns one point and a wrong one zero. There is no penalty, so a blank answer is never better than a guess.⁴

A made-up example shows what the weights mean. Someone who solves 70 % of BMS, 80 % of TV, 60 % of KFF and scores 50 % in SEK ends up with 0.4 · 70 + 0.1 · 80 + 0.4 · 60 + 0.1 · 50 = 65. Ten more percentage points in BMS or KFF raise the total by 4; the same gain in TV or SEK raises it by 1.

The dentistry test, MedAT-Z, is built almost the same way. Instead of text comprehension and the logical-conclusions group, it tests manual skills: wire bending and mirroring shapes.⁵

Places and rankings in the MedAT

There are 1,950 places in total: 1,806 in medicine and 144 in dentistry.⁶

Each university ranks candidates separately for each programme, and places go to the top of the list. Medicine has quotas: at least 95 % of places are reserved for EU citizens and those treated equally, at least 75 % for holders of an Austrian or equivalent school-leaving certificate, and at most 5 % go to the non-EU quota.⁶

Demand is high. In 2026, 16,880 people registered and 13,248 actually sat the test.⁷

Figures per university for 2026 are not out yet; for 2025 they are: at MedUni Wien 6,183 people sat the test for 784 places in medicine and dentistry combined.⁸

Once results are published, every candidate gets an email, and the score and any offer appear in the university's online account. According to the universities, moving up from the waiting positions affects only a few people ranked just below the last place offered.⁹

The result is valid for the coming academic year only and cannot be carried over. Places are always for the winter semester; you cannot start in the summer semester.²

How to prepare for the MedAT

The official materials are on the Virtueller Medizinischer Campus (VMC), the learning platform run by MedUni Graz. Signing up is free, and a short video series explains each section and task group.¹⁰

The universities explicitly do not recommend paid courses. They point to a MedUni Wien study which found almost no difference between preparing with a course and preparing on your own in small groups.¹¹

1. Sign up on the VMC and work through the official materials first. That way you know what each task group looks like before you make a study plan.
2. BMS and KFF make up 80 % of the result together, so most of your time goes there. Revise BMS at school level, one subject at a time. Train the five KFF groups separately and against the clock, because each needs its own technique.
3. TV and SEK count 10 % each. Reading German non-fiction regularly helps with TV and with the whole test, which is in German only.
4. Plan around your final school exams: only a few weeks separate them from the test in early July. If you sit the MedAT in your final year, start BMS in winter.

If you finished school outside Austria, sort out your enrolment documents early; what needs certifying and translating is covered in the article on university documents. If you are moving to Vienna for your studies, the guide to student housing in Vienna helps with a search that should start early for the autumn.

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· 11 checked 03.10.2026

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