Curtin Oral Health Therapy vs La Trobe Dental

Neither school publishes a numeric cut-off. Curtin Oral Health Therapy selects on no national admission test. La Trobe Dental selects on no national admission test.

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.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy requires ATAR / selection rank only. No UCAT-ANZ, no CASPer required.

La Trobe Dental requires Year 12 ATAR typically 99.00-99.85 (selection rank with adjustments). English (study score 25) or EAL (30) prerequisite. No UCAT required for Year 12 entry; required only for non-Year-12 applicants. NO GAMSAT. International intake ~25 places. Next available intake 2027.

ATAR. Curtin Oral Health Therapy — no published cut-off. La Trobe Dental — ATAR range 99.00-99.85 at Bendigo (selection rank floor with adjustments, to highest ATAR offered excluding adjustments). Confirmed via La Trobe FAQ + OzTREKK + MedView.

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.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy and La Trobe Dental interview in the same broad format, so the underlying prep approach is the same — practise ethics frameworks, Australian health-system topics (Medicare, rural workforce, Indigenous health) and (for MMI) structured station responses against a timer.

That said, the specifics differ slightly: Curtin Oral Health Therapy runs academic results only — atar-based selection rank; La Trobe Dental runs academic results only (no mmi / no formal interview). Mock practice tailored to each school's exact format is the highest-leverage prep.

Interview windows: Curtin Oral Health Therapy interviews in No formal interview; La Trobe Dental in No formal interview.

Both schools deliver a Integrated-style curriculum, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar across years 1-3.

Specifics: 3-year Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy) accredited by the Australian Dental Council and Dental Board of Australia. 750+ clinical training hou 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours). Bendigo is the sole campus for the degree. Annual indicative international tuition (2026) A

Intake size: Curtin Oral Health Therapy — Not publicly disclosed by Curtin. Year-on-year selection rank not in publicly extracted TISC data.; La Trobe Dental — International intake 25 places (OzTREKK). Domestic intake not publicly disclosed by La Trobe.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy: N/A — no interview. La Trobe Dental: N/A — academic results only.

Post-interview odds give you the clearest signal of how competitive each school is at the final stage — a school with a 60% post-interview success rate is structurally easier to convert than one at 25%, even if the interview thresholds look identical on paper.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy: Important: Curtin does not offer a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) or a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). The only dental-track program at Curtin is the Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy). It is a 3-year qualification, accredited by the Australian Dental Council and the Dental Board of Australia.

It leads to registration as an Oral Health Therapist, which is a separate AHPRA scope from a general dentist. Clinical training runs to over 750 hours, across the Oral Health Centre of WA at Nedlands, community clinics, private practices, and the Dental Health Services clinic at Mt Henry.

La Trobe Dental: La Trobe's sole dental program is a 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours) at the Bendigo campus — NOT a graduate DDS (no graduate-entry DDS exists at La Trobe per public sources). UCAT is NOT required for Year 12 applicants (required only for non-Year-12 entry).

ATAR-only selection at Year 12; Regional Benefits Program drops the ATAR floor to 85 for rural applicants.