Australian Dental Schools - GAMSAT, UCAT-ANZ, ATAR & Interview Guides
Browse every Australian dental school. See GAMSAT / UCAT-ANZ thresholds, ATAR cut-offs, MMI and panel formats, CSP / BMP place counts and indigenous pathways for all 10 programs.
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Adelaide Dental
Adelaide
Adelaide University delivers South Australia's only dental program — a 5-year, full-time-only undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) taught at the Adelaide City Campus (North Terrace) and anchored at the Adelaide Dental Hospital, selected on UCAT-ANZ and then an online MMI. The university was formed in January 2026 from the merger of the University of Adelaide and UniSA.
Charles Sturt Dental
Orange
Charles Sturt's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (BDS) trains dentists for rural and regional NSW, with clinical placements in the final two years across Charles Sturt's five dental and oral health clinics at Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga, and at least half of each intake reserved for rural-background and First Nations applicants.
Curtin Oral Health Therapy
Bentley
Curtin's Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy) is a 3-year qualification registering graduates as Oral Health Therapists — NOT general dentists (the scope of practice differs from a BDS/DMD). The program serves outer-metropolitan Perth and rural WA public dental workforce needs.
Griffith Dental
Gold Coast
Griffith's integrated dental pathway — 3-year Bachelor of Dental Health Science (BDHS) into a 2-year Master of Dentistry (MDent) — is anchored on the Gold Coast (Southport) campus at the Griffith Health Centre, with clinical training in the 117-chair Griffith University Dental Clinic and placements in private practices across metropolitan, regional and rural Queensland and northern New South Wales.
JCU Dental
Cairns
JCU Dental's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) trains dentists for tropical, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across northern Australia, taught at the Cairns Nguma-bada campus at Smithfield with over 2,000 hours of supervised clinical placement in the JCU Dental teaching clinics at Cairns and Townsville and in rural and remote community health facilities across northern Queensland, distinguished by a no-aptitude-test, no-interview selection model and a tropical/rural workforce mission.
La Trobe Dental
Bendigo
La Trobe's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours) is the sole campus for the degree at Bendigo, distinguished by no admission test at all (no UCAT-ANZ, no GAMSAT, no ISAT, for any applicant group), no interview on the two mainstream codes, and a dedicated Regional Entry VTAC code for applicants whose principal home address is in an ASGS-RA (2021) RA2–RA5 area, which adds 10–15 points to the ATAR under the Rural and Regional Student Access Scheme. La Trobe's Regional Benefits Program is a regional-campus scholarship rather than an entry pathway, and it is not an ATAR floor for admission.
Melbourne Dental
Parkville
Melbourne delivers a 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) taught at Parkville with clinical placement at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, distinguished by historic depth (the Australian College of Dentistry, founded 1897), patient treatment from second year, a two-year research project, a final-year rotation that includes a rural placement, and selection on academic ranking alone with no interview. UoM describes it as "Australia's top-ranked dental school".
Sydney Dental
Sydney
Sydney's 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) is taught at the Camperdown campus with clinical education at Sydney Dental Hospital, the Westmead Centre for Oral Health and Nepean Hospital, plus placements at local health district dental hospitals in regional and rural NSW including Ballina, Broken Hill, Dubbo, Orange and Armidale — Australia's first dental school, open since 1901.
UQ Dental
Herston & St Lucia
UQ runs a 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Hons) (BDSc), co-located with the Oral Health Centre at Herston. It is the most ATAR-competitive dental program in Australia. Selection ranks applicants on the UCAT, and there is no interview.
UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine
Brisbane, Queensland
UQ’s graduate-entry dental programme (program 5763), a 3.5-year Doctor of Dental Medicine taught at Herston. Distinct from the undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours) and applied for directly at UQ — GEMSAS covers graduate MEDICINE only.
UWA Dental
Nedlands
UWA delivers Western Australia's only graduate-entry 4-year Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD), anchored at the Oral Health Centre of WA — a dental teaching hospital on UWA's Health Campus at Nedlands, beside the QEII Medical Centre — with further placements through WA Dental Health Services clinics in metropolitan and rural areas and community settings, distinguished by hospital-integrated training and a strong Aboriginal Health pathway.
Campus photo credits
Campus photographs are used under free Creative Commons or public-domain licences and have been resized and cropped for display.
- Adelaide Dental: photograph by User:DXR — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Sturt Dental: photograph by Content Charles Sturt — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Curtin Oral Health Therapy: photograph by Orderinchaos — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Griffith Dental: photograph by Chris Olszewski — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- JCU Dental: photograph by Chris Olszewski — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- La Trobe Dental: photograph by No machine-readable author provided. Frances76~commonswiki assumed (based on cop — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Melbourne Dental: photograph by Polly clip — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sydney Dental: photograph by Jason Tong — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UQ Dental: photograph by The University of Queensland — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine: photograph by Kgbo — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UWA Dental: photograph by Calistemon — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entry guides: how to get into each dental school (11)
Grades, admissions test cut-offs, interview format and a realistic chances read for every school, one guide each.
- How to get into Adelaide Dental
- How to get into Charles Sturt Dental
- How to get into Curtin Oral Health Therapy
- How to get into Griffith Dental
- How to get into JCU Dental
- How to get into La Trobe Dental
- How to get into Melbourne Dental
- How to get into Sydney Dental
- How to get into UQ Dental
- How to get into UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine
- How to get into UWA Dental
Browse by state
State hubs group every Australian dental school by jurisdiction - NSW, VIC, QLD, SA and WA - with state-specific entry context and direct links to each school detail page.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Australian dental school applications.