Charles Sturt Dental vs UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. Charles Sturt Dental — UCAT-ANZ is required on both the general and rural pathways; First Nations applicants are exempt, and UAC tells current Charles Sturt students on the internal GPA pathway that they do not need it. No… UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — no published cut-off.

GAMSAT cut-offs. Charles Sturt Dental — not used or not published. UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — Minimum 50 in each section, sat within 4 years prior to the year of commencement.

Timing shapes the choice as much as the score. GAMSAT is graduate-only and sits in March and September; UCAT-ANZ is mostly undergraduate and sits in July. A few schools run their own selection model with no national test at all.

Charles Sturt Dental requires Charles Sturt publishes no ATAR requirement for the BDS (its entry score is listed as "TBA") and there is no portfolio. Selection for interview runs on UCAT-ANZ for the general pathway, on UCAT-ANZ plus the Rural and First Nations Applicants Supplementary Form for the rural pathway, and on GPA for current Charles Sturt students.

UAC publishes an ATAR profile for ATAR-based offers in semester 1, 2026 (2026 entry): lowest ATAR 97.70, median 98.20, highest 99.70.

Treat that as descriptive, not as a cut-off - UAC's student profile for the same cohort shows fewer than 5 of 45 commencing students were admitted solely on the basis of ATAR (22, or 48.89%, came from prior higher education study and 19, or 42.22%, were international), so the profile reflects a very small school-leaver subgroup rather than a selection threshold.

The ~93-95 aggregator figure has no Tier-1 basis and should be dropped. UAC lists assumed knowledge of Chemistry, Mathematics Advanced and Physics, with English Standard recommended. Applications for the 2027 intake close through UAC at 11.59pm AEST on 13 September 2026; no late applications are accepted.

UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine requires A bachelor’s degree in health, allied health, physical sciences or biological sciences with a GPA of 5.0 on a 7-point scale; university-level human anatomy and human physiology or cellular physiology completed within the 10 years before commencement; GAMSAT sat within 4 years prior to the year of commencement with a minimum score of 50 in each section; and completion of a situational judgement test in the year of application.

Applications are made directly to UQ, not through GEMSAS.

ATAR. Charles Sturt Dental — Charles Sturt publishes no minimum ATAR for the BDS and lists the course entry score as "TBA"; its published selection criteria use UCAT-ANZ (or GPA for internal applicants) to select for interview… UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. Charles Sturt Dental — not applicable or not published. UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — Minimum GPA 5.0 on a 7-point scale.

Read every ATAR figure as a selection rank, not a raw score. Educational access bonuses, rural-origin uplift and Indigenous pathways all adjust it, so the published number is rarely the one that decides your application.

Charles Sturt Dental uses Panel (In-person panel interview at the Orange campus (late November/early December). Charles Sturt publishes no number of interview days for the current cycle and no longer offers the online-interview fallback that appeared in its 2022 handbook.); UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine uses Interview (No interview — selection on GPA, GAMSAT and a situational judgement test).

These two formats reward different skills — Panel emphasises narrative coherence and the ability to develop a thread under follow-up questioning, while Interview rewards malleability and intellectual honesty.

If your strengths lie in conversational depth, Charles Sturt Dental may suit you more. If you prefer discrete capsule answers under time pressure, either is the better fit.

Intake size: Charles Sturt Dental — Charles Sturt does not publish an annual number of places for the BDS - no figure appears on the course page or in handbook entry 4409DS01.

UAC does publish a student profile: 45 students commenced the course in 2026, of whom 22 (48.89%) came from prior higher education study, 19 (42.22%) were international, and fewer than 5 were admitted solely on the basis of ATAR. That is commencing students, not places offered, so treat it as scale rather than an intake quota.

Charles Sturt does publish the split: at least 50% of places each year are set aside for significant-rural-background or First Nations applicants, and a minimum of 30 interviews are reserved for current Charles Sturt students.; UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — UQ does not publish the intake size for this programme..

A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.