Competitive Offers and Wide Competition: How the 2026 State Funding Is Split

What it means in practice

• You see “open” — your chances depend on the competition across the whole specialty, not just at this institution. The cut-off is shared; go by the overall trend rather than by one institution.
• You see “fixed” — the places are assigned to that institution; the competition is narrower, within the institution. Offers like this exist for particular cases (including special conditions).
• You see “fee-paying-only” — there is no state funding here. If this is your dream program, you can put its fee-paying application at priority 1 (how that works: How to order your priorities when applying).

The type of offer does not change the main rule: order your applications by what you genuinely want. It only explains how your chances will be counted.

Where to check this

• The type of offer (open / fixed / fee-paying-only) is shown for every offer in the EDBO account and in the catalogue of specialties on abitly.org.
• The picture of the wide competition during the application period is shown by EDBO (the ranking list of everyone who has applied, with scores and priorities). How to read it calmly: How to read ranking lists and cut-off scores.

Frequently asked questions

Are applications considered simultaneously?
Yes. Targeted placement compares every applicant in the wide competition at the same time, by competitive score and priority — not by who applied first. When you submit has no effect on the outcome.

Open or fixed — which is better for me?
It is not “better or worse”, just a different way of distributing places. On an open offer the competition is wider (the whole country); on a fixed one it is within the institution. Look at the cut-off scores of previous years for the particular offer.

What is the super-volume?
It is the total number of state-funded places for a specialty across all institutions in the wide competition. That is the pot targeted placement distributes.

Glossary and sources

• Competitive offer — a specific program at a specific institution.
• Open offer — the state-funded places are distributed by the wide competition (not assigned to an institution in advance).
• Fixed offer — the state-funded places are assigned to the institution in advance.
• Fee-paying-only offer — fee-paying places only.
• Wide competition — the shared “pot” of state-funded places (the super-volume) for a specialty, made up of all the open offers.

Sources. The 2026 Admission Procedure (Ministry of Education and Science Order No. 373). The official Ministry Applicant Guide 2026 and the EDBO account take precedence over any guide.

Disclaimer. This material is a guide as of June 2026 and does not replace the official sources. Make your final decisions on the basis of the Admission Procedure, the Ministry’s Applicant Guide and a conversation with the admissions committee.