All higher education institutions offer university degrees. Except for three art colleges other institutions that previously belonged to the non-university sector have now been upgraded and merged with university institutions. During the next three years the remaining three art colleges will be merged into one art academy that will offer university degrees in the arts. Two of those are private, but are run with state support. Also, admission can be given to those who have acquired equivalent maturity and knowledge according to the evaluation of the institution in question.
Universities can impose further admission requirements, including admission examinations.
For most courses of study there are no general restrictions on admission for those who have passed the matriculation examination. However, in health programmes, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy, and dentistry admission is restricted by numerus clausus, where a competitive examination is held at the end of the first semester and a limited number of students with the highest grades are allowed to continue in the programme. Also, in pharmacy and the natural sciences, and in some technical programmes students are required to have matriculated from a mathematics, physics, or natural sciences branch of study of an upper secondary school. There are no tuition fees at state-run institutions of higher education, but the institutions charge registration fees. Privately run colleges charge tuition fees.