Curtin Oral Health Therapy vs UQ Dental

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. Curtin Oral Health Therapy — no published cut-off. UQ Dental — Mandatory. All applicants at/above the ATAR floor are ranked directly on UCAT-ANZ aggregate — ATAR acts as a hurdle, not a differentiator. UCAT section scores may separate tied applicants. Discrete…

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.

UQ Dental requires ATAR 99.00 adjusted floor + UCAT-ANZ aggregate ranking (no interview). English + Chemistry prerequisites (Units 3/4, C); Biology recommended.

ATAR. Curtin Oral Health Therapy — no published cut-off. UQ Dental — 2026 entry: lowest rank offered 95.70 (unadjusted) → 99.00 (with adjustments); median rank offered 99.30 (unadjusted) → 99.95 (with adjustments); highest rank offered 99.95. ATAR floor 99.00 adjusted…

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 UQ 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; UQ Dental runs no interview — atar threshold then ucat-anz aggregate ranking. 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; UQ Dental in No 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). Years 1-2 foundations and pre-clinical simulation at St Lucia. Years 3-5 clinical placement

Intake size: Curtin Oral Health Therapy — Not publicly disclosed by Curtin. Year-on-year selection rank not in publicly extracted TISC data.; UQ Dental — 2025 intake: 75 admitted total (QTAC); ~60% international. International total program fee AUD $94,856.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy: N/A — no interview. UQ Dental: N/A — no interview.

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.

UQ Dental: UQ Dental is the most ATAR-competitive dental program in Australia: 99.00 adjusted ATAR floor with 99.95 median offer rank (2026 intake). No interview — selection runs on the ATAR hurdle + UCAT-ANZ aggregate. Co-located with the Oral Health Centre at Herston — Queensland's largest dental teaching facility.