SHORTAGE OCCUPATIONS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL FOR 2026

List of the top 10 shortage study programmes at the national level for 2026 for the purposes of enrolment and scholarship funding in higher education, and for the publication of public calls for applications for the allocation of places for full-time students in student dormitories published by student centres:


1)       Medicine

2)       Pharmacy (Pharmacy, Medical Biochemistry)

3)       Computing (Computing, Computer Systems Maintenance, Informatics, Information Technologies, Information Systems, Information Security and Digital Forensics, Digital Technologies, Computing for Social Applications, Applied Computing, Multimedia Computing, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Computer Game Development, Computer Systems)

4)       Electrical Engineering (Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Information and Communication Technology, Electrical Engineering, Internet of Things)

5)       Mechanical Engineering (Motor Vehicles, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechatronics and Robotics)

6)       Civil Engineering (Civil Engineering, Construction)

7)       Mathematics (Mathematics, Theoretical Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Financial and Business Mathematics, Mathematics and Informatics, Biomedicinska matematika/Biomedical Mathematics, Computing and Mathematics, Mathematics and Physics)

8)       Physics (Physics, Physics and Informatics, Physics and Engineering, Physics and Chemistry)

9)       Speech and Language Therapy

10)     Rehabilitation (Rehabilitation, Social Pedagogy, Educational Rehabilitation)


In accordance with the MZOM Ordinance, Article 14.

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