NOTICE: The admission process 2025/2026 is expected to begin in November 2024.
Students on the degree form part of one of two groups:
All applicants, regardless of the stream of the degree they wish to follow, must undertake one of the two types of admission test described below.
Applicants classed as home students (candidatos nacionales) are those who have undertaken their pre-university studies in Spain or who have undertaken such studies abroad following the Spanish education system. Home students sit the EPAM test, regardless of their nationality. The test will take place in an in-person format, on the date indicated below, on the University's Castellón Campus and Alfara del Patriarca Campus. All applicants classed as home students from the general admission system from any admission pathway sit this test.
In order to sit the EPAM test, applicants must do the following:
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 compliance with deadlines, the documentation needed, and 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.
Applicants must regularly check on the status of their application and undertake a variety of necessary administrative tasks before enrolment.
The EPAM test will take place on Saturday 18th May 2024 in an in-person format on the Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia) and Castellón campuses simultaneously. If the student has applied for both streams of the Medicine degree, then the stream which the student as chosen as their preferred option will determine the location at which they will undertake the test: in Castellón for the Medicina (Spanish) stream, and in Alfara del Patriarca for the Medicina Bilingüe/Medicine (English-Spanish) stream.
Applicants classed as international students (candidatos internacionales) are those who have undertaken their pre-university studies abroad, regardless of their nationality (except in the case of those who have undertaken their pre-university studies abroad but have followed the Spanish education system). These applicants sit the EPOAM test.
In order to sit the online EPOAM test (the online internal admission test for Medicine for applicants classed as international students), applicants must do the following:
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 compliance with deadlines, the documentation needed, and 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.
Applicants who are unable to obtain a place on the degree, after having taken the online EPOAM test for international students, cannot take the in-person EPAM test.
The EPOAM test will take place on Saturday 17th February 2024 in an online format.
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..
These applicants must undertake the in-person EPAM test.
Requirements to sit the test:
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation by 11:59 pm on 13th May:
These applicants must undertake the online EPOAM test.
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation by 11:59 pm of 12th February:
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 13th 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 13th 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 13th 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 13th May.
These applicants must undertake the EPAM test.
Applicants who have begun but not completed a degree in an area of knowledge related to medicine:
Requirements to sit the test:
Deadlines and documentation which must be scanned and uploaded to the applicant intranet site. Applicants must submit the following documentation by 11:59 pm on 13th May:
The test will take place on Saturday 18th May 2024 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.
The EPOAM test will take place on Saturday 17th February 2024 in an online format.
Applicants who are unable to obtain a place on the degree, after having taken the online EPOAM test for international students, cannot take the in-person EPAM test.
The 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:
On the Medicine admission process page of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University website, you can find example test questions, and also some recommendations for the revision of subject areas, usually covered during the second year of pre-university studies in Spain.
Students will not be penalised for incorrect answers in the test other than not receiving the corresponding mark.
Those applicants who are not native Spanish speakers may undertake the EPOAM test in English.
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 6th June. Applicants may also be informed via email or text message.
There are three possible admission decisions:
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 4th March. Applicants may also be informed via email or text message.
There are three possible admission decisions:
* 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.