Big entrance test

Rush for places at Tyrol’s medical university continues unabated

This is what it looks like when thousands of applicants are vying for a few hundred places.(Bild: Birbaumer Christof)

There were almost 3200 applicants for 420 places at Innsbruck Medical University this year. A particularly large number of Germans want to study here. The rules for the admission test on Friday were strict. Why no watch was allowed and why Austria lacks doctors despite the large number of young doctors. 

The picture is impressive: excited young people sit table to table in huge exhibition halls and wait for the starting signal. Then it starts. For the 19th time, the entrance test for medical studies took place on Friday at all university locations (Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck). In Innsbruck, 2350 of the 3200 applicants finally came. They are vying for 380 places for human medicine and 40 places for dentistry.