Particular conditions for candidates with a foreign secondary school diploma
| Medicine
| Pharmacy
| Lettres (Arts)
| Social and Political Sciences (SSP)
| School of Criminal Justice (ESC)
Medicine
| 1. Candidates must apply to swissuniversities in Bern before 15 February 2025 (after this date, no consideration will be given to applications). Online applications are open as of December 2024 (swissuniversities). |
It is essential to follow the procedure required by the swissuniversities within the deadlines.
Candidates who have not indicated UNIL as their first choice when applying to swissuniversities cannot apply for medical studies at UNIL after 15 February. The creation of a Switch edu-ID account does not constitute a registration with swissuniversities.
In April at the latest, swissuniversities will inform all candidates personally about the procedure to be followed later in order to enrol in medical studies.
Note: it is mandatory to submit an online application at UNIL and your documents to the Admissions Office (Service des immatriculations et inscriptions) before 30 April 2025, further to the enrolment at swissuniversities.
Master programme
A registration at swissuniversities is not requested for an application to a Master programme. However, a foreign Bachelor of Medecine may not be deemed equivalent to a Swiss Bachelor of Medecine and therefore not give access to a Master programme.
In addition, it is not enough to have obtained 180 ECTS credits or to have completed three years of study. The degree must also have been awarded. In that respect, a successful completion of three years of medical studies at a foreign university does give access to a Master's degree in Medicine at UNIL only if the Bachelor's degree has been awarded.
2. The available enrolment capacity in medicine has regularly been exceeded in recent years. Admission of foreign students to medical programmes is based on the Cantonal regulations on admission of foreign candidates to medicine studies.
3. Students who have started the first year of the Bachelor of Medicine in another Swiss or foreign Faculty of Medicine will no longer be eligible in the Bachelor of Medicine at UNIL with the exception of students who have passed the first-year competition at the University of Neuchâtel and who have obtained a place at UNIL.
4. Candidates for the programme passerelle biology/life sciences engineering/biomedical sciences/biochemistry/pharmaceutical sciences/dental medicine/veterinary medicine - medicine starting in the autumn semester 2025/2026 have to deposit their application until 30 November 2024.
Only candidates who meet the specific conditions set out in the Cantonal regulations on admission of foreign candidates to medicine studies at the University of Lausanne, and who hold one of the diplomas specified in the Passerelle programme regulations (and not a diploma in a similar field) may apply.
5. Dental and veterinary medicine are not taught at the University of Lausanne.
Pharmacy
Only first year courses are taught in Lausanne. A subsequent transfer to the University of Geneva is therefore obligatory.
Lettres (Arts)
Requirements for candidates with no Latin or Greek knowledge
Candidates for the Bachelor degree whose secondary school diploma does not include either Latin or Ancient Greek must, depending on the discipline chosen, follow a foundation course in Latin or Ancient Greek.
Candidates for the Bachelor degree in possession of a secondary school diploma that includes Latin are required to follow only a part of these additional courses.
Social and Political Sciences (SSP)
Additional requirements for the Bachelor degree in Sport Sciences and Physical Education
Candidates for the Bachelor degree in Sport Sciences and Physical Education who are eligible for registration must in addition pass a prior physical aptitude test organised before the start of the academic year. Information on the site or from the secretariat of the ISSUL (telephone 021 692 21 80)
School of Criminal Justice (ESC)
Certificate of university admission
If, depending on the foreign secondary school diploma, the admission is subject to the production of a certificate of university admission in the same field as that chosen at UNIL (qualifications and requirements by country), it may relate to the following fields for candidates wishing to study at the School of Criminal Justice (ESC): Criminal Justice, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Physics or Biology.
The university granting the attestation must be recognised by UNIL. Candidates must also satisfy all the other registration conditions.
