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Australian Dental School Rankings 2027

Australia’s dental schools ranked by the NGMP Score — our single 0–100 rating of how strong each school is for dentistry, built from the QS and ShanghaiRanking (ARWU) global dentistry subject rankings, plus our own TrueScore for how competitive each school is to enter.

Newer programmes outside the global ranked universe sit at the bottom. For the entry-score methodology see our UCAT-ANZ score prediction.

What the NGMP Score measures
6
Schools ranked
2
Global ranking sources
82.2
Top NGMP Score
64.6
Median NGMP Score

What the NGMP Score measures

The NGMP Score rates each Australian dental school out of 100 on its standing in the two global dentistry subject rankings: QS Dentistry and ARWU Dentistry & Oral Sciences. These measure research quality, academic reputation and dental research output. We average each school’s position across the sources it appears in — its Quality Consensus — into one 0–100 score. Times Higher Education has no standalone dentistry table, so it is not used here.

Alongside the score we show our TrueScore — the predicted UCAT-ANZ you’d need to be competitive for an interview at the undergraduate-entry schools that use it. Graduate-entry schools (selected on GAMSAT and GPA) don’t use UCAT-ANZ, so they show “—” and are ranked on the NGMP Score alone.

Full ranking of Australian dental schools, 2027 Entry

10 Australian dental schools (6 ranked by the NGMP Score; newest programmes listed below). Click any school for its full page.

#SchoolStateNGMP Score/100Predicted UCAT-ANZ using TrueScore
1Melbourne DentalVIC82.2—
2Adelaide DentalSA81.42120standard
3UQ DentalQLD65.22160standard
4Sydney DentalNSW63.9—
5UWA DentalWA63.22020standard
6Griffith DentalQLD43.72080standard
—Charles Sturt DentalNSW—2120standard
—Curtin Oral Health TherapyWA——
—JCU DentalQLD——
—La Trobe DentalVIC——

NGMP Score (0–100) is the Quality Consensus of each school’s QS and ARWU global dentistry positions. TrueScore is our predicted competitive UCAT-ANZ (/2700) for undergraduate-entry schools. Higher = stronger overall.

Score tiers explained

Top tier

NGMP Score 70+

Globally elite for dentistry — ranked inside the world's top ~50 across QS and ARWU. Australia's strongest dental research and reputation, and among the most competitive to enter.

Upper tier

55–69.9

Strongly ranked internationally, with solid dental research output and reputation. Highly respected, established programmes.

Mid tier

40–54.9

Programmes that appear in the global dentistry rankings and rate respectably — realistic, high-quality choices.

Emerging tier

Below 40 / unranked

Lower on, or outside, the global dentistry rankings — typically the newest or smallest programmes. Not a quality judgement: every school is Australian Dental Council–accredited to the same standard.

Frequently asked questions

The NGMP Score rates each Australian dental school out of 100 on its standing across the two global dentistry subject rankings — QS World University Rankings by Subject (Dentistry) and ShanghaiRanking ARWU (Dentistry & Oral Sciences). These measure research quality, academic reputation and dental research output. We average each school's position across the sources it appears in (its Quality Consensus) into a single 0–100 score. (Times Higher Education has no standalone dentistry table, so it is not used here.)

The University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide sit at the top — both rank inside the global top ~50 for dentistry across QS and ARWU. The University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia follow. The best school for you also depends on whether you're a school-leaver (undergraduate/UCAT-ANZ) or graduate (GAMSAT), and on your state — so use the TrueScore column and each school's page alongside the ranking.

A blank NGMP Score means the school's dentistry programme is too new or too small to appear in either global dentistry ranking yet (JCU, La Trobe, Charles Sturt and Curtin's oral health programme). It is not a quality judgement — every Australian dental programme is accredited by the Australian Dental Council to the same standard. Those schools are listed at the bottom.

TrueScore is our predicted UCAT-ANZ score, and only undergraduate-entry dental schools use UCAT-ANZ. Graduate-entry schools (Sydney and Melbourne, selected on GAMSAT and GPA) and schools that don't use UCAT-ANZ show "—" in the TrueScore column. They are still ranked by the NGMP Score.

Australia publishes no domestic dentistry league table. The global dentistry subject rankings — QS and ARWU — are the only rigorous, independent, comparable measures that cover Australian dental schools, so we build the NGMP Score from them. A school absent from one source simply doesn't contribute to its mean — absence is never a penalty.

Annually, as the latest QS and ARWU dentistry subject editions and UCAT-ANZ statistics are published.

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Reviewed by Isaac Butler-King, medical student at the University of Glasgow. Last reviewed: 1 July 2026