Particular conditions

The available enrolment capacity in medicine has regularly been exceeded in recent years. Admission of foreign students to medical programmes is based on the Cantonal regulations on admission of foreign candidates to medicine studies.

A registration at swissuniversities is not requested for an application to a Master programme. However, a foreign Bachelor in Medecine may not be deemed equivalent to a swiss Bachelor in Medecine and therefore not give access to a Master programme.

In addition, it is not enough to have obtained 180 ECTS credits or to have completed three years of study. The degree must also have been awarded. In that respect, a successful completion of three years of medical studies at a foreign university does give access to a Master's degree in Medicine at UNIL only if the Bachelor's degree has been awarded.

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Candidates for the Master of Arts degree whose secondary school diploma does not include either Latin or Ancient Greek must, depending on the discipline chosen, follow a foundation course in Latin or Ancient Greek.

Candidates for the Master degree in possession of a secondary school diploma that includes Latin are required to follow only a part of these additional courses.