The Audited MBBS Shortlist: 40 Programmes Checked Against Official Pages

How to read the tables

Every fee is quoted exactly as the university prints it: its own currency, its own billing basis, and the fee year the page names. We did not convert anything to dollars and we did not turn semester or whole-programme figures into yearly ones. Those two habits are where most MBBS fee tables on the internet go wrong.

That means the rows are not directly comparable at a glance — a Malaysian whole-programme total sits next to a Chinese per-year rate. That is the honest version. When you compare two programmes, open both official links and read the billing basis before you compare numbers.

What the audit changed on this site

Nineteen of our own listings were corrected as a direct result of this audit. The worst cases: University College Dublin's non-EU medicine rate is EUR 63,890 a year where our record said 20,000 dollars; Ataturk University's English-medicine fee is 354,000 lira where we carried 32,500; two records priced in the wrong currency entirely (a Malaysian programme in euros, a Russian one in dollars); and two German programmes that charge no tuition at all were carrying invented dollar figures.

Fees on this page can still go stale — universities publish new tables every cycle. The difference is that every row here names its fee year and links the page we read, so you can check whether the figure still stands in about thirty seconds.

What we did not verify

Being clear about the edges matters as much as the figures. We did not verify recognition or licensing claims (whether a given degree leads to registration in your country — that depends on your regulator, not the university's marketing). We did not verify hostel, food, or 'package' costs of any kind. We did not verify next year's fees anywhere — only the currently printed table. And where a deadline was not printed with a current date on an official page, we left it out rather than carrying last year's.

Ten programmes below defeated the audit entirely: their universities publish no usable international fee. Several of those fees circulate widely on agent sites anyway. Treat every such figure as marketing until the university prints it.

China

Provincially regulated fee bands; every figure below is the university's own published English-medium Clinical Medicine (MBBS) rate.

Each figure is the amount printed on the linked official page on the day we checked it, in the university's own currency and billing basis — no conversions, no annualising. Fee years differ because universities publish on their own cycles.

UK & Ireland

The expensive end of the corridor, and the one where our own listings had drifted furthest before this audit.

Each figure is the amount printed on the linked official page on the day we checked it, in the university's own currency and billing basis — no conversions, no annualising. Fee years differ because universities publish on their own cycles.

EU (English-taught)

Public and private EU schools with printed English-programme fees. Italy's public rates are income-banded — the Bologna figure is the published ceiling.

Each figure is the amount printed on the linked official page on the day we checked it, in the university's own currency and billing basis — no conversions, no annualising. Fee years differ because universities publish on their own cycles.

Türkiye, Caucasus & Russia

Fees here move fast: two Turkish universities had roughly tripled their printed rate since our previous data, and Russian universities price in RUB with declining year-by-year schedules.

Each figure is the amount printed on the linked official page on the day we checked it, in the university's own currency and billing basis — no conversions, no annualising. Fee years differ because universities publish on their own cycles.

Asia-Pacific

Two very different structures: a Malaysian one-time whole-programme total and a Philippine declining per-year schedule.

Each figure is the amount printed on the linked official page on the day we checked it, in the university's own currency and billing basis — no conversions, no annualising. Fee years differ because universities publish on their own cycles.

Where the university publishes no usable international fee

This table is the part agents never show you. For these programmes the university's own pages either print no international tuition at all, gate it behind an enquiry form, price it by income bands, or contradict our listing in a way we could not resolve from official pages.

A price you can only get from an agent is not a published price. If a figure for one of these programmes appears anywhere — including on our own listing — treat it as unconfirmed until the university prints it.

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