A study published in the journal FEM shows that the University of Costa Rica (UCR) has the highest pass rates among the eight universities that teach medicine in the country.
In the IFOM exam, between 2023 and 2025, UCR graduates had an average pass rate of 97.7% across four sessions, 19.7 points ahead of the second university, and every session was above 96%.
In the national ECOM-CR exam, between 2023 and February 2026, UCR’s average pass rate was 82.4%, also the highest in the country and 29.6 points above second place.
