UQ Dental vs UWA Dental

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. 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… UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

GAMSAT cut-offs. UQ Dental — not used or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum 55 overall with no section score below 50. International applicants may instead submit the US Medical College Admission Test (500 overall, no section below 124) or the US Dental…

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.

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

UWA Dental requires Bachelor degree with selection GPA 5.5/7.0 minimum; GAMSAT 55 overall with no section below 50 (international applicants may substitute an equivalent overseas admission test); MMI of 8 stations for domestic applicants, or a two-interviewer panel of about 50 minutes for international applicants; rural and Aboriginal Health pathways available.

ATAR. 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… UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. UQ Dental — not applicable or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum 5.5 unweighted (UWA-equivalent). 2022 commencement median GPA 6.80.

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.

UQ Dental uses Interview (No interview — ATAR threshold then UCAT-ANZ aggregate ranking); UWA Dental uses MMI (Multi-Mini Interview (~8 stations)). These two formats reward different skills — Interview emphasises academic reasoning and thinking aloud through unfamiliar problems, while MMI rewards breadth and quick recovery.

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

Interview windows: UQ Dental interviews in No interview; UWA Dental in October-November.

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

Specifics: 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours). Years 1-2 foundations and pre-clinical simulation at St Lucia. Years 3-5 clinical placement 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). Year 1 foundations and pre-clinical simulation at Crawley. Years 2-4 clinical placements at the Oral

Intake size: UQ Dental — 2025 intake: 75 admitted total (QTAC); ~60% international. International total program fee AUD $94,856.; UWA Dental — ~36 places annually across all DMD quotas (Direct + Graduate combined; Fraser's UWA 2027). Domestic vs international split not publicly disclosed.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

UQ Dental: N/A — no interview. UWA Dental: ~33% interview-to-offer.

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.

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.

UWA Dental: UWA Dental runs a 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) — Western Australia's only graduate-entry dental program. Co-located with the Oral Health Centre of WA at the Crawley campus. Pre-interview ranking weights GAMSAT and GPA; the MMI carries substantial weight in the final composite. Strong rural and Aboriginal Health pathways.