Admission to Medical School

The applicant has achieved a sufficiently high score in the test to be offered a place on the degree.

- The message informing the applicant will also provide instructions for him or her to confirm acceptance of this offer and to begin the enrolment process, in which the procedure for home and international students will be explained. 

- The applicant then has seven days (one week) to make the initial payment, in accordance with the Student Fees and Administrative and Financial Regulations document, and thus to begin the enrolment process. By making this initial payment, the student reserves his or her place on the chosen degree programme and therefore accepts the University’s conditions and regulations regarding admission and enrolment, which are publicly available on the University website. If this payment is not made within seven days, then the applicant will lose his or her right to admission and the offer of a place will be withdrawn.

- After this initial payment is made, with which the student reserves a place on the degree, the University will contact the applicant within fifteen days to put in motion the enrolment process. Home students will be contacted by the General Secretary’s Office and international students will be contacted by the Hospitality Service. If the applicant does not comply with the University’s requirements and deadlines regarding the enrolment process, the student will lose their place on the chosen programme and the place will be assigned to the best-placed student on the waiting list. If this occurs, then, in accordance with the Administrative and Financial Regulations regarding admission to the University – which the applicant accepted by making the initial payment – then he or she will lose any right to a refund of this payment.

- CEU UCH's Administrative and Financial Regulations stipulate that, in the case of the Spanish-language stream of the degree (Medicina), the initial payment consists of the place reservation fee, and, in the case of the bilingual Spanish-English stream (Medicina bilingüe/Medicine), the initial payment consists of the place reservation fee and the registration fee together. The latter condition is applicable to all bilingual streams of degree programmes.

- All applicants should carefully read the Administrative and Financial Regulations, which, among other information, detail the conditions under which the initial payment made to reserve a place may be refunded. Once the relevant deadline for such refunds has passed, no refunds will be made, in accordance with the above regulations. We recommend that students do NOT make this initial payment unless they are sure of their decision to study the chosen degree at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University.

The applicant is placed on the waiting list for admission to the degree.


He or she will then be informed of the next steps to take via the applicant intranet. The applicant will be informed, via this same platform, email or telephone, of any movement in the waiting list due to withdrawals from the list itself or the fact that those have received offers have declined them. In this way, applicants can find out whether their “moving up the queue” enables them to gain a place. The configuration and position on the waiting list stops being valid as soon as University CEU Cardenal Herrera declares the admission process closed, even if by then the access to the future students intranet is still available and can see his position on the waiting list. There is no exact date for this, but will be around 14th August and the guaranteed date the waiting list is no more operating will be the day classes start following th Places may therefore become available due to movement on the waiting list and it is therefore important to bear the following the official academic calendar. The candidate has the right to know if due to movement on the waiting list he has achieved a spot, because the movement arrived at his place. Places may therefore become available due to movement on the waiting list and it is therefore important to bear the following in mind:

• If, after 48 hours of the offer of a place, the University has been unable to get in contact with the applicant or the applicant does not respond to the offer, via the intranet or via email, then he or she will lose the right to this place, which will then be offered to the next person on the list.

• If the applicant accepts the offer, then the process described in a) above will be applicable.

The applicant has not been able to achieve a score that would secure an offer of a place on the degree or a place on the waiting list. This is the end of the process for this applicant. This decision is final and no appeals will be accepted.

The applicant has achieved a sufficiently high score in the test to be offered a place on the degree.

The message informing the applicant will also provide instructions for him or her to confirm acceptance of this offer and to begin the enrolment process, in which the procedure for Spanish and international students will be explained. The applicant then has seven days (one week) to make the initial payment, in accordance with the Student Fees and Administrative and Financial Regulations document, and thus to begin the enrolment process. By making this initial payment, the student reserves his or her place on the chosen degree programme and therefore accepts the University’s conditions and regulations regarding admission and enrolment, which is publicly available on the University website. 

If this payment is not made within seven days, then the applicant will lose his or her right to admission and the offer of a place will be withdrawn.
After this initial payment is made, reserving a place on the degree, the University will contact the applicant within fifteen days so that the enrolment process can begin. Spanish (home) students will be contacted by the General Secretary’s Office and international students will be contacted by the Hospitality Service. If the applicant does not comply with the University’s requirements and deadlines regarding the enrolment process, the student will lose their place on the chosen programme and it will be assigned to the best-placed student on the waiting list. If this occurs, then, in accordance with the Administrative and Financial Regulations regarding admission to the University – which the applicant accepted by making the initial payment – then the he or she will lose any right to a refund of this payment.

These same regulations stipulate that, in the case of the Spanish-only degree (Medicina), the initial payment consists of the pre-enrolment fee, and, in the case of the bilingual Spanish-English degree (Medicina/Medicine), it consists of the pre-enrolment fee and the enrolment fee together. The latter condition derives from this programme’s bilingual nature. All applicants should carefully read the Administrative and Financial Regulations, which, among other information, detail the conditions under which the initial payment made to reserve a place may be refunded. Once the relevant deadline for such refunds has passed, no refunds will be made, in accordance with the above regulations. We recommend that students do not make this initial payment unless they are sure of their decision to study the chosen degree at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University. 

The applicant is placed on the waiting list for admission to the degree.

He or she will then be informed of the next steps to take via the applicant intranet. The applicant will be informed, via this same platform, email or telephone, of any movement in the waiting list due to withdrawals from the list itself or the fact that those have received offers have declined them. Once the University considers that the admission process has been completed, the waiting list and any position that applicants may have on it cease to be valid, even if for a time applicants who have not been admitted may still be able to access the intranet and see that they appear to occupy a place on the waiting list. It is not possible to set a definitive date for for when the process will end: 14th August is suggested as an approximate date. It can be said with certainty that on that date that lectures begin (this date can be seen on the University's academic calendar) the process will have ended. Places may therefore become available due to movement on the waiting list and it is therefore important to bear the following in mind:

• If, after 48 hours of the offer of a place, the University has been unable to get in contact with the applicant or the applicant does not respond to the offer, via the intranet or via email, then he or she will lose the right to this place, which will then be offered to the next person on the list.

• If the applicant accepts the offer, then the process described in 1) above will be applicable.

The applicant has not been able to achieve a score that would secure an offer of a place on the degree.