Biomedical Informatics

Graduates of the study programme will gain knowledge of informatics and its applications in medicine and biomedicine. They will be able to find employment at various levels of management and development in industrial, software companies and other institutions in both the public and private sectors that are engaged in data and medical data analysis, the creation of medical information systems and the development of software for the processing of medical and biomedical data. Graduates of this degree programme will gain the knowledge in computer science necessary for the creation of complex information systems and, in addition, will have an overview of typical problems in the development of software for medical practice used in healthcare or biomedical laboratories. With this knowledge they will be able to design, develop, implement, extend, adapt and localise large-scale information systems for both general purpose and special medical applications.



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Conditions of admission

The key admission requirement is to obtain a Bachelor´s degree (in accordance with the Higher Education Act 131/2002 Coll. as amended) in the same or similar field of study.



Conditions for international students

Foreign applicants for study are admitted on the basis of relevant interstate agreements or, if they study in a language other than the state (Slovak) language, they pay tuition fees according to the conditions set out in Section 92(8) of the Higher Education Act. Tuition fees are set by a UNIZA directive and published for the relevant academic year on the University's website. Foreign applicants (except applicants from the Czech Republic) who wish to study in the state language are required to successfully pass a language test in Slovak language with the achievement of at least B1 level.The language test in Slovak language must be passed no later than by the deadline of the admission procedure - 28.5.2026, while a foreign applicant may pass it only once in the calendar year of the admission procedure. Successful completion of the language test is a condition for admission to the study. Applicants from the Czech Republic may use the form valid in the Czech Republic to apply for studies.



Without entrance examinations
yes

Conditions of admission without the entrance exam

Prospective students, who have successfully passed the required subjects during the Bachelor´s studies (or their equivalent), can apply for recognition in the subjects. The wrriten application addressed to the dean is a part of the e-application and can be found on our website.

Biomedical Informatics - knowledge in the following subjects:

  • 6UA0002 Probability and Statistics

    6UI0004  Algorithms a Data Structures 1



Coordinator for students with specific needs

Ms. Zuzana Borčinová

Telephone: 00421 41 513 4279

email: zuzana.borcinova@fri.uniza.sk



General information on the admission exam

After the application deadline, the faculty sends the applicant an invitation to the entrance examination, which, in addition to information about the course of the entrance examination, also includes the number of the room in which the examination will be taken. After registration, the applicant shall take a test in the subjects prescribed for the given engineering study programme within a specified time limit. The results are published on the same day of the entrance examination on the website http://vzdelavanie.uniza.sk/prijimacky/. Applicants can access their results by entering their surname and identification code. A written decision on the result will be sent to the applicant by the Dean of the Faculty by 31 July 2026.

Students who are unsuccessful in the entrance examination may be admitted to the three-year engineering conversion program. Applicants are admitted to conversion three-year engineering degree programmes without an entrance examination on the basis of the weighted average of their undergraduate studies.



Form of entrance exam

a written test



  • Open day

    11.02.2027

  • Apply the application for study

    31.03.2027

  • Performance of the entrance exam

    27.05.2027 - 27.05.2027

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Anticipated number of applicants to be accepted: 40
Additions
  • (electronic form)
Annual tuition fees
Standard length of study: cost free
Study longer than the standard length of study program, parallel studies: 1200 €
The fee for admission procedure
application form: 20 €
E-application form: 20 €
Billing information

Bank details: Štátna pokladnica

Bank account: SK96 8180 0000 0070 0026 9909

Variable symbol: 10532 – Master´s study

Constant symbol: 0308

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Detail of the study program

 
 
Study in Slovakia and receive a scholarship of €5,000 per academic year. More information

Detail of the study program

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Last update: 07.10.2026 19:12

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