University of Galway · Ireland
Medicine
A six-year medicine degree in Galway.
- Where
- GalwayIreland
- Degree
- MB BCh BAO
- Length
- 6 years
- Taught in
- English
- Starts
- Autumn 2027
- Apply by
- 1 February 2027
- Admission
- SelectiveIB grades · 157 places
- EU/EEA fee
- Free fees if eligible + €2,500 charge
More facts
- Degree
- MB BCh BAO
- Length
- 6 years
- Taught in
- English
- Starts
- Autumn 2027
Deadlines
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5 November 2026, 12:00 Irish time
CAO application facility opens for 2027 entryDetails
Published twice: the last line of the CAO Timetable of Events reads "5th November 2026 - CAO application facility opens for 2027 applications", and the CAO Handbook 2027 gives "CAO online application facility opens on 5 November at 12:00 noon". Nothing can be submitted before midday.
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20 January 2027, 17:00 Irish time
Discounted application fee ends - 35 EUR becomes 50 EURDetails
Applying after this costs more. Not a barrier, and a needless cost.
The discounted online fee ends at 17:00 (CAO Handbook 2027, Timetable of Events and Table 1.1). Missing it costs 15 EUR, not your place: you can still apply at the normal 50 EUR until 1 February. The fee ladder is in Table 1.1 of the CAO Handbook 2027 and is the part most often got wrong: early online (discounted) 35 EUR by 20 January, normal online 50 EUR by 1 February, late online 65 EUR by 1 May, Change of Mind nil. Amending your course choices between 5 February and 1 March costs a further 10 EUR. Application fees are non-refundable and CAO states that no extension to any closing date is allowed.
Source -
1 February 2027
Applications closeHard deadlineDetails
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All dates for this programme (2 more)
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5 May 2027, 12:00 Irish time*
Change of Mind opens - free, and unlimitedDetails
Free, and it lets you rewrite the list entirely — which is why the 1 February deadline is less frightening than it looks. CAO Handbook 2027 gives 5 May at 12:00 as the "expected date".
CAO publishes this as "5th May (12:00) - Online Change of Mind facility becomes available (Free)". The CAO Handbook 2027 gives this day and time but marks it "(expected date)", so treat it as provisional. You may use it as many times as you like to introduce, remove or reorder courses, but each Change of Mind "cancels and supersedes all previous course choices in any category in which changes are made", so the list you leave behind is the list that is read. Restricted-entry courses cannot be introduced here.
Source -
6 July 2027*
IB results releasedDetails
After Change of Mind has closed. An IB applicant straight from school competes in Round One, with Irish school leavers.
Source
* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.
What it is
Six years of medicine, or five with two sciences at HL 5: scientific principles with clinical practice, case-based learning, simulation and placements across hospital and community settings.
What you need
- Physics, Chemistry or Biology (SL or HL)minimum 4 · Five-year route: two of these at HL 5
- Any IB Englishminimum 4
- Any IB Mathsminimum 4
- Language ab initio SL, Any IB Danish or Another languageminimum 4 · A language other than English
Requirements in full
Every IB applicant at Galway
Six subjects including English; Arts, Commerce and Medicine add another language, Commerce Maths. Strictest: Engineering HL Maths 5; Medicine a language, a lab science and HPAT; Maths courses HL 5 or SL 7.
Check it on universityofgalway.ie
How places are decided
- Every CAO applicant sits HPAT-Ireland and needs at least 480 CAO points from one sitting, with the subject requirements met in that same sitting.
Sources (2)
- Medicine at Galway — checked 2026-09-26
- IB applicants at Galway
Other degrees at Galway
