PLEASE NOTE: For questions about possible places on the degree for 2022-23, please contact the information service for prospective students . The admission process for 2023-24 will begin on the following dates:
Students on the degree form part of one of two groups:
All applicants for either version of the degree must undertake one of the two types of admission test described below in these Regulations.
There are two types of admission tests aplicable to candidates for this general admission. BMAT is only aplicable to admission pathways 1,2,6 and 7 (bachillerato, credencial, university graduates and applicants who have begun, but not completed university studies, except for Medicine).
Applicants from any country can sit this test. This test must be taken in person on either the University’s Castellón Campus or the Alfara del Patriarca Campus on the set date. Applicants from the general admission group from any admission pathway may sit this test.
In order to sit the EPAM test, applicants must:
Applicants are strongly advised to pay close attention to the information on the website and other communication channels regarding the deadlines corresponding to the different stages of the process, the documentation that must be submitted, and the requirements of each admission pathway. Ensuring such compliance with deadlines, the documentation needed, or admission requirements is entirely the applicant’s responsibility and a lack of awareness in one or other respect will not constitute grounds for special treatment under any circumstances.
Admission via the internal admission test for Medicine (EPAM)
The examination will take place on 27th May 2023. More specific information on the examination click here
Applications for admission are made using the form for this purpose on the CEU Cardenal Herrera University website. Applicants can use this same form to apply for admission to both Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine programmes: that taught entirely in Spanish on CEU UCH’s Castellón Campus (Medicina) and the bilingual English and Spanish programme taught on CEU UCH’s Valencia Campus in Alfara del Patriarca (Medicina Bilingüe/Medicine).
The order of preference for the two programmes (Medicina or Medicina Bilingüe/Medicine) stated on the application form is very important because, during the final stage of the admission process, which concerns the allocation of places to applicants, the order of preference will have the following effects:
Once the form has been completed and submitted, login details for access to the applicant intranet (intranet de nuevo alumno) will be generated, a process which may take a few minutes. These login details will be sent to the email address provided in the application form, and this email address will become, from that moment onwards, the official communication channel between the University and the applicant.
Via the intranet, applicants will be able to:
Applicants from any country can sit this test.
BMAT is an international admissions examination administered by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing (part of the University of Cambridge), which has partnered with the CEU Cardenal Herrera University.
This admissions test takes place on the same day in countries throughout the world and is used by leading European and American universities to assess applicants. BMAT is developed and marked by Cambridge Assessment and is therefore a standardized test of proven international validity. The test content concerns the biomedical knowledge and skills that applicants should have acquired during their pre-university studies. The test is in English.The result will be valid for admission purposes for either CEU UCH Medicine degree programme, that taught in Spanish (Medicina) and the bilingual programme (Medicina Bilingüe/Medicine).
Admission via BMAT
Those applicants who sit BMAT and are unsuccessful will still be able to sit CEU UCH’s EPAM test. In this case, the negative BMAT result will then be set aside for the purposes of admission and it will not prevent applicants from sitting the EPAM test.
It is important to note that the admission pathway you choose must correspond to the highest level of studies you possess at the time of making the application. Thus, if an applicant’s highest level of study is that of pre-university studies (Bachillerato, etc.) then he or she must apply via the corresponding pathway, whereas applicants who have already begun a degree must take a different pathway, with different requirements. This is the case for each of the seven admission pathways.
If, at the time of enrolment, it is found that an applicant has followed an admission pathway which does not correspond to the level of studies they possess, then his or her application will be rejected at that time, as the original documents will not correspond with those which were uploaded to the intranet earlier in the process. Such applicants will thus lose any rights to admission that the CEU Cardenal Herrera had previously awarded to them.
All those applicants in this general admission group are competing with each other according to the same criteria, which can be seen in APPLICATION ASSESSMENT CRITERIA, Application assessment criteria. If it were found that a significant imbalance was occurring in the admission process, affecting admission to the different study years and teaching groups, then the Rector and the Dean may establish a committee to draw up lists for admission which will take into account the different applicant profiles. This may occur during the first or subsequent rounds of place allocation, depending on possible changes to the initial waiting list.
Those applicants who have already begun studies in medicine at another university (in Spain or abroad) must apply as part of the transfer group, which is subject to a different process, described in TRANSFER APPLICANTS..
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. . Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm of 17th April:
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. . Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rd May:
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm of 17th April :
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm of 23rd May:
These applicants must undertake the EPAM test. Only applicants who have undertaken those vocational training courses which form part of the Spanish educational system and are known as Ciclos Formativos de Grado Superior or Formación Profesional may use this admission pathway.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rd May.
These applicants must undertake the EPAM test
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rd May.
These applicants must undertake the EPAM test.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rd May.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm of 17th April.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rd May.
Applicants who have begun studying for a qualification in an area related to Medicine but have not completed it, must apply using the grades from the pre-university studies which enabled them to begin their university studies (Bachillerato, Formación Profesional, etc., or their foreign equivalents). Applicants must upload documentation regarding their pre-university studies to the applicant intranet. Such applications must be made via the “applicants who have begun, but not completed university studies” pathway (estudios iniciados pero no finalizados). If the application for a place is successful, applicants may then request that a study be made to explore whether the credits already undertaken can be recognized for their new degree.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm of 17 April.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation before 11:59 pm on 23rdh May.
The test will take place on Saturday 27th May 2023 and applicants will be required to attend in person. The test will take place simultaneously on the University’s campuses in Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia) and Castellón. If the student has applied for both Medicine programmes, then the programme which the student as chosen as their preferred option will determine the location at which they will undertake the test: for Medicina in Castellón, and for the Medicina Bilingüe/Medicine in Alfara del Patriarca.
The relevant times and duration of the test are as follows:
The test will be in a multiple-choice format, consisting of 75 questions. The questions will be on the following areas:
Sample questions can be found here section of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University website and you will find a list of subjects here you should prepare for in order to taking EPAM.
Incorrect answers won’t rest points on the exam.
Those applicants who are not native Spanish speakers may undertake the EPAM test in English.
Regarding the BioMedical Admissions Test: BMAT The date for the BMAT test is 4th March 2023, and it can be undertaken in any of the authorised for these matters by Cambridge Assesments test centers. One of these centers is the Faculty of Health Sciences of University CEU Cardenal Herrera, this means that on this date the exam will be available to sit here. Candidates form all nationalities may take this test.
To sit the BMAT, applicants must register with the University of Cambridge before the appropriate deadline via the following link
Places will be allocated on the basis of the score attained in the test and the other assessment criteria detailed in these regulations. All applicants will be informed of the decision with regard to their application for admission via the applicant intranet. Applicants will be informed of the decision on 13th June. Applicants may also be informed via email or text message.
There are three possible outcomes for applicants of the decision process:
If the applicant has applied for a place on both campuses (in Castellón and Alfara del Patriarca, Valencia), then they can appear on both lists and then the admissions criteria detailed in these Regulations will be applied.
* The “enrolment fee” may therefore be paid at a time different from that at which the administrative enrolment process takes place.
Places will be allocated on the basis of the score attained in the test and the other assessment criteria detailed in these regulations. All applicants will be informed of the admission decision via the applicant intranet. The University aims to inform applicants of the admissions decision on 20th April. Applicants may also be informed via email or text message.
There are two possible outcomes for applicants:
* The “enrolment fee” may therefore be paid at a time different from that at which the administrative enrolment process takes place.
Applicants must also pass the Spanish university entrance examination, known as Selectividad/PAU, or its equivalent, at the June sitting (or be able to provide a document recording official recognition of equivalence (Credencial) in the case of those who have foreign pre-university qualifications). However, the grade achieved in this examination will not be taken into account for applicant scoring for admission decisions. Applicants who cannot meet this requirement will lose any acquired right to admission or their positions on the waiting list.
Applications may be awarded a maximum of two additional points, which will be added to the score deriving from academic assessment, as explained in the previous section. Thus, these points will supplement the score deriving from previous studies, the mark achieved in the EPAM or BMAT test and, where appropriate, ability in English.
Applicants must provide appropriate evidence of eligibility for additional points from the relevant authorities. If it is found that an applicant has provided fraudulent documentation or documents which do not correspond with those previously indicated, then this applicant will lose any right to admission or enrolment, regardless of the stage of the process at which this is found to be the case.
Additional points may be awarded in the following cases:
Applications may accumulate points of more than one type, but only up to the maximum of two points. Applicants must upload the documents demonstrating eligibility for the award of these points to the applicant intranet during the admission process and comply with the relevant deadlines. Any document submitted after the relevant deadline has closed will not be taken into account for the accrual of additional points for the admission process.