Public health

Prospects of graduates
A graduate of the bachelor's study program in Public Health can, in addition to work in the network of regional public health offices, can also work in occupational health services, in facilities providing medical and preventive care as an expert in hospital epidemiology and health protection of employees, but also in higher territorial units. insurance companies or in state administration or territorial self-government bodies in the field of health development (creation and implementation of programs for active prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases, eg healthy cities, healthy schools, healthy workplaces). The graduate is able to use the epidemiological method of work and this allows him to apply in the field of pharmaceutical companies. The graduate has the prerequisites for further university, specialization and continuous education.

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A graduate of the Bachelor's degree program in Public Health meets the professional qualification to practice the profession of a public health professional.
In addition to working in the network of regional public health authorities, he or she can also work in occupational health services, in facilities providing medical and preventive care as an expert in hospital epidemiology and for employee health protection, but also in higher territorial units, in health insurance companies or in state or local government bodies in the field of health development (creation and implementation of programs for the active prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases, e.g. healthy cities, healthy schools, healthy workplaces). The graduate is able to use the epidemiological method of work, which also allows him or her to work in the field of pharmaceutical companies.


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Conditions of admission
- completed secondary education or a full secondary vocational education;
- medical fitness for university studies in the medical field of study and for the exercise of the relevant medical profession;
- successful completion of the entrance exam;
- entrance examination: successful completion of a biology test in the scope of secondary school curriculum (minimum 40 points);
- those candidates who obtain the highest number of points for the entrance examination will be admitted.


Additional information
Contact:
Fakulta zdravotníctva
Trenčianska univerzita Alexandra Dubčeka v Trenčíne
Študentská 2
911 50 Trenčín

Study department FZ TnUAD
Tel.: 032/74 00 610
E-mail:studijne.fz@tnuni.sk
www.fz.tnuni.sk


Conditions for international students
The admission conditions are identical to the admission conditions for students in the Slovak Republic.
An applicant who has completed secondary school studies abroad (except for documents obtained in the Czech Republic) must follow the instructions:


https://tnuni.sk/uchadzaci/uznavanie-dokladov-o-vzdelani/



Coordinator for students with specific needs
Applicants with special needs are advised to contact the faculty coordinator of students with special needs before submitting their application:
PhDr. Katarina Gerlichova, PhD.
Phone: 032/74 00 603
E-mail:katarina.gerlichova@tnuni.sk

General information on the admission exam
Required documents for admission:
- Duly completed application form for university studies of the first degree and the following required documents must be attached:
o The copies of the End of Year School Report for the last year and the School- Leaving Examination Certificate.
o The medical confirmation of general health and the ability to study at the university level in the healthcare field of study and for the performance of a profession in the selected study programme (in the prescribed form).
Tlacivo_Potvrdenie_lekara_o_zdravotnej_sposobilosti.pdf
- The faculty strongly prefers applications be submitted electronically via
https://e-prihlaska.tnuni.sk You do not need to send paper versions. We require you upload scans of all required documents online through the electronic application.
- Applicants for studies can also send an application in paper version (in the prescribed application form – ŠEVT form). The application must be written legibly in blue ink and sent with the copies of the required documents directly to the faculty of healthcare.
- Officially certified copies of the End of Year School Report for the last year and the School-Leaving Examination Certificate, the original medical confirmation of general health and the ability to study at the university level in the healthcare field of study and for the performance of the profession in the selected study programme must be submitted no later than on the day of the entrance exam.
- The registered applicants who fail to deliver all the required documents within the specified deadline, will be assumed to have declined the offer to study at the faculty.


Form of entrance exam
- Written exam

Tests
Written exam
The test is focused on biology in the scope of secondary school curriculum. There are 50 questions in the test, one answer is correct, for each correct answer the candidate gets 2 points, for the whole test he can get a maximum of 100 points. The time limit for completing the test is a maximum of 50 minutes.
Recommended literature for entrance exams for full-time and part-time study:
UŠÁKOVÁ, K. a kol.: Biológia pre gymnáziá, časť 6 – Biológia človeka, evolúcia a vznik života na zemi. Bratislava: EXPOL Pedagogika, 2015. 104 s. ISBN 978-80-8091-402-8.


  • Apply the application for study

    28.10.2025 - 30.04.2026

  • Performance of the entrance exam

    15.06.2026 - 19.06.2026

  • Send certificate to

    15.06.2026

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Anticipated number of applicants to be accepted: 10
Additions
  • Matriculation certificate (paper form)
  • Medical Confirmation of Ability to Study (paper form)
  • Report card from the last year of high school (paper form)
Annual tuition fees
Standard length of study: 690 €
The fee for admission procedure
application form: 60 €
E-application form: 60 €
Billing information
The invoicing data for the payment of the fee for the admission procedure will be after the submission of the e-application, which the candidates will find on

https://e-prihlaska.tnuni.sk/ais/eprihlas/#!/home/
generated by the system automatically in the form of a payment order.
The fee must be paid within 7 days of sending the e-application.
If the applicants submit their application in paper form, the payment details will be sent to the e-mail specified in the application form upon receipt of the paper application.
The fee must be paid within 7 days of sending the payment order.
Admission fee: €60
Note:
Without paying the fee for the admission procedure, the application will not be included in the register of applicants for study.
The admission fee is not refundable to the applicant.
A separate application must be submitted for each study program.
The entrance exam is held separately for each study program, the result of the entrance exam cannot be accepted for another study program.

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