EEA and Swiss citizen students:

• Receive medically necessary treatment with their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) during their temporary stay in Hungary if they are insured in their homeland.
• Need to apply for the EHIC from their health insurance institution in their homeland.
• Need to pay a flat-rate contibution if they are not insured in their homeland and they intend to be subject to the full range of health care services.

Students with Serbian, Macedonian, Kosovan, Russian, and Ukrainian nationality:

• Are entitled to emergency health care services during their temporary stay in Hungary.

Students from other countries:

• Are entitled to the benefits in kind if they conclude an agreement with the health insurance body of the county government office.
• The charge amounts to 30% of the minimum wage, which shall be paid monthly in advance until the twelfth day of the subject month.
• Except of emergency health care, students, who concluded an agreement, are entitled to health care services from the first day of the sixth month following the month of conclusion of the agreement if they pay the total amount of charges for the first six months simultaneously with the conclusion of the agreement.

More information:

Please read carefully the full detailed description of the National Health Insurance Fund (in Hungarian: Nemzeti Egészségbiztosítási Alapkezelő):

• Health insurance of university students in Hungary (in English)
• Krankenversicherung von Universitätsstudenten in Ungarn (in German)
• Egyetemi hallgatók egészségbiztosítása Magyarországon (in Hungarian)