Université de Lille
Lille, France
Specific Health Access Pathway (PASS, 1 year)
<p><strong>Admissions</strong></p><p>Applications are made through Parcoursup for a candidate holding the French or European baccalauréat. A non-EU national holding a foreign qualification falls under the <strong>prior admission application</strong>, the white file through the Études en France platform or the green file if they already reside in France, with the campaign closing on <strong>15 December</strong> and a TCF-DAP test required. Admission then takes place in two stages, <strong>half the places being awarded on the written papers alone</strong>, the other half after the orals. At Lille those orals take the form of <strong>four multiple mini-interviews</strong>, common to all programmes, which assess competences distinct from those tested in writing: the ability to communicate, to defend an opinion, to argue and to persuade.</p><p><strong>Who it is for</strong></p><p>The specific health access pathway combines a health major with a disciplinary minor, and is at Lille the principal route towards the medical programmes. The university opens <strong>1,730 places</strong> on it for <strong>20262027</strong>, which places it alongside Lyon Est and Paris Cité among the largest cohorts in France. The choice among thirteen minors deserves care, since it determines the degree of reorientation should the student fail: a minor chosen by default condemns them to a second year in a discipline they did not want.</p><p><strong>Fees</strong></p><p>PASS falls within the first cycle: <strong>€178</strong> in national fees for <strong>2026-2027</strong>, plus <strong>€105</strong> for the student life contribution. A non-EU student who is not exempt pays <strong>€2,902</strong> in differentiated fees. Means-tested scholarship holders are exempt from both the fees and the contribution, and French government scholarship holders benefit from exemption as of right, outside the quota capped by the decree of <strong>19</strong></p><p><strong>May 2026</strong> at 30% of non-European students in 2026-2027, 25% in 2027-2028 and 20% from 20282029.</p><p><strong>Careers</strong></p><p>Successful students reach <strong>515 places</strong> distributed across the five health programmes. One reality should be known before committing: of roughly 1,600 students present at the start of the year, close to 1,400 remain in December, Lille selection operating also through discouragement and withdrawal, sometimes within the first weeks. Successful candidates continue into the second year of medicine, midwifery, dentistry, pharmacy or physiotherapy.</p>
Health-Access Bachelor's Degrees (LAS, 3 years)
<p><strong>Admissions</strong></p><p>The same application routes as PASS, Parcoursup or the <strong>prior admission application</strong> closing on <strong>15 December</strong> for a non-EU candidate. Bridging entry for holders of a master's degree or a doctorate moreover represents <strong>55 additional places</strong>, a route often overlooked by candidates who already hold a qualification. A candidate following their major at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France registers with that institution and comes under its own admission procedure.</p><p><strong>Who it is for</strong></p><p>The health-access bachelor's degree combines a disciplinary degree with a health option, with <strong>ten options</strong> offered at Lille, including a recent track in applied mathematics and computer science. The university is moreover <strong>in partnership with Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France</strong>, at Valenciennes, which also offers degrees with a health-access option. A candidate may therefore follow their disciplinary major at another institution in the region while aiming at the Lille health programmes.</p><p><strong>Fees</strong></p><p>The same first-cycle scale as PASS: <strong>€178</strong> in national fees and <strong>€105</strong> for the student life contribution in <strong>2026-2027</strong>, and <strong>€2,902</strong> in differentiated fees for a non-EU student who is not exempt. Since the route is conceived at Lille as a medium-term course, the cumulative cost of two or three years should be anticipated, which makes a French government scholarship, exempting as of right, particularly decisive.</p><p><strong>Careers</strong></p><p>The volume of places clearly distinguishes the two moments of this route: first-year students have <strong>215 places</strong>, while those in the second and third years find <strong>354</strong>. That progression indicates that the healthaccess bachelor's degree is conceived at Lille as a medium-term course, where the best chances lie after one or two years passed. Successful candidates join the second year of the health programmes; the others complete their disciplinary degree to graduation.</p>
Second and Third Cycles of Medical Studies
<p><strong>Admissions</strong></p><p>Access comes through passing the first year, whether PASS or a health-access bachelor's degree. The regulatory position should be followed closely. On <strong>17 April 2026</strong>, the ministers responsible for higher education and for health confirmed the end of PASS and the health-access bachelor's degrees, in favour of a single route organised in three blocks and applied for through Parcoursup, from the <strong>2027</strong> intake. The Conference of Deans of Medicine, in a letter of 25 March 2026, and then the National Academy of Medicine judged that timetable unrealistic and asked for postponement to <strong>2028</strong>; the government is holding to 2027 and no final decision has been published to date. The <strong>2026-2027</strong> intake remains governed in full by the arrangements described here.</p><p><strong>Who it is for</strong></p><p>After the first year, the course continues to the State diploma of doctor of medicine, backed by the Lille teaching hospital. The scale of that hospital network determines the quality of clinical training, since it conditions the number of students taken on placement and the range of departments accessible. The Lille tradition in infectious disease, inherited from Pasteur's work and continued by the institute bearing his name, shapes part of the faculty's research priorities. Bringing the five health programmes together within a single teaching unit moreover encourages cross-disciplinary teaching.</p><p><strong>Fees</strong></p><p>The second cycle falls on the master's-level scale: <strong>€255</strong> in national fees for <strong>2026-2027</strong>, plus <strong>€105</strong> for the student life contribution, with differentiated fees for non-EU students standing at <strong>€3,950</strong> at this level. The third cycle escapes that regime, students enrolled in the third cycle of health studies <strong>not being subject to differentiated fees</strong>. Hospital students receive placement allowances from the fourth year onwards, and residents are salaried.</p><p><strong>Careers</strong></p><p>Graduates reach the third cycle through the national examinations at the end of the second cycle, which replaced the former national ranking examinations in <strong>2023</strong>: the <strong>national digital examinations</strong> in October of the sixth year count for 60% of the mark, the <strong>objective structured clinical examinations</strong> in the spring for 30%, and the training record for 10%. The single national ranking has given way to a <strong>national matching procedure</strong> between the candidate's choices of specialty and region and the posts open. They then practise in France or, subject to recognition of qualifications, abroad.</p>
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