How to get into Curtin Oral Health Therapy Dentistry

Curtin Oral Health Therapy expects Minimum ATAR / Selection Rank 80 on Curtin current course page (Semester 1 / Year Long 2027 entry); TISC listed 83.00 as the minimum rank for consideration for 2024-2026 admission and has published no 2027 figure. Meeting the minimum does not guarantee selection.

Curtin lists no admission test and no interview for this course — Selection is based on academic performance: no UCAT-ANZ, no GAMSAT, no Casper, no portfolio route. (By contrast, TISC SLAR 2027 states that for Curtin Medicine/Surgery all applicants are required to undertake the UCAT and Casper test and are then selected for interview.)

No essential prerequisite subjects (Human Biology or Biology ATAR desirable); English via a scaled score of at least 50 in WACE ATAR English/Literature/EALD or IELTS Academic 7.0 with 7.0 in each band. ATAR is not the main route in practice: in Curtin latest published student profile only 5 of 32 commencing students entered solely on ATAR.

Curtin also admits on completed higher education study (Curtin course switcher: 100 credits, a 70% weighted average over the four most recent units and Good Standing; switchers from another provider need a Selection Rank of 80 and can only start in Semester One), an AQF Diploma or Advanced Diploma, STAT (WE plus V or Q), and bridging or enabling courses including UniReady and the Indigenous enabling courses.

Fieldwork clearances are compulsory before placement: student declaration, AHPRA registration, criminal record screening, immunisation, first aid, hand hygiene, manual handling and communicable-disease screening, with a Senior First Aid Certificate required before second year, second semester. for Dentistry (BDS/DMD) and uses Academic results only — ATAR-based selection rank for interviews in the 2027 Entry cycle.

Entry is undergraduate and there is no admission test; applications close through GEMSAS or your state TAC (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC), and CSP, BMP and full-fee places are all capped, so treat the standard above as a threshold to clear rather than a target to aim at.

This guide is written for 2027 Entry applicants and updated annually before each GEMSAS / UAC cycle. Sources include Curtin University Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy)'s official course page, GEMSAS, the UCAT-ANZ Consortium, ACER (GAMSAT), and direct conversations with current students. Read time: ~12 minutes.

Curtin University Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy)'s official course page was opened and reconciled with this record on 11 September 2026. Figures the school does not publish on that page remain unconfirmed.

Minimum ATAR / Selection Rank 80 on Curtin current course page (Semester 1 / Year Long 2027 entry); TISC listed 83.00 as the minimum rank for consideration for 2024-2026 admission and has published no 2027 figure. Meeting the minimum does not guarantee selection.

Curtin lists no admission test and no interview for this course — Selection is based on academic performance: no UCAT-ANZ, no GAMSAT, no Casper, no portfolio route. (By contrast, TISC SLAR 2027 states that for Curtin Medicine/Surgery all applicants are required to undertake the UCAT and Casper test and are then selected for interview.)

No essential prerequisite subjects (Human Biology or Biology ATAR desirable); English via a scaled score of at least 50 in WACE ATAR English/Literature/EALD or IELTS Academic 7.0 with 7.0 in each band. ATAR is not the main route in practice: in Curtin latest published student profile only 5 of 32 commencing students entered solely on ATAR.

Curtin also admits on completed higher education study (Curtin course switcher: 100 credits, a 70% weighted average over the four most recent units and Good Standing; switchers from another provider need a Selection Rank of 80 and can only start in Semester One), an AQF Diploma or Advanced Diploma, STAT (WE plus V or Q), and bridging or enabling courses including UniReady and the Indigenous enabling courses.

Fieldwork clearances are compulsory before placement: student declaration, AHPRA registration, criminal record screening, immunisation, first aid, hand hygiene, manual handling and communicable-disease screening, with a Senior First Aid Certificate required before second year, second semester.

Year 12 ATAR (or equivalent international qualification) plus the admission test are the academic gateway; interview performance then determines the final offer.

This school uses a course-specific admission test or a non-standard selection method. See the official course page and the admission profile above for the exact requirements.

Australia has no equivalent of the UK's single UCAS personal statement. GEMSAS graduate-entry applications use GAMSAT + GPA without a written component; most state-TAC undergraduate applications use ATAR + UCAT-ANZ without a written component. The schools that DO require written content (JCU portfolio, Notre Dame Sydney/Fremantle questionnaire, Wollongong short answers, Bond essays) each ask different, school-specific questions. Treat each school's prompt set as a discrete short-answer test - do not recycle a single document across multiple schools.

Limits are school-specific. JCU portfolio responses: typically 250-500 words per question. Notre Dame questionnaire: 250-400 words per response. Wollongong short answers: ~300 words each. Bond essays: 500 words. Read the current cycle's prompt brief for each school carefully - limits and prompts shift cycle-to-cycle.

Notice: a specific scene rather than a cliché, a precise detail (the nine-minute conversation), and a closing sentence that bridges to the next paragraph. We have a step-by-step written-submissions service if you want a tutor to help shape yours.

Curtin Oral Health Therapy uses Academic results only — ATAR-based selection rank. For 2027 entry, interviews typically take place in No formal interview. Final decisions are released December-January (Curtin published 2027-entry rounds: Round 1 offers 10 December 2026, Round 2 offers 14 January 2027; TISC publishes its own school-leaver offer dates and the WA main round is in December).

At Curtin Oral Health Therapy, expect the following from the selection process. Assessment / recorded-interview format - some Australian schools (JCU's Kira Talent recording, Notre Dame Modern Hire) ask one-way recorded responses; others combine panel interviews with practical tasks (group work, written exercises, presentations). Allow 60-90 minutes for a recorded interview or 4-6 hours for a full in-person assessment day.

Curtin's Bachelor of Science (Oral Health Therapy) selects on ATAR / selection rank only. UCAT-ANZ is NOT required. CASPer is NOT used. The program registers graduates as Oral Health Therapists (NOT general dentists) — a distinct AHPRA scope from dentistry. UWA remains the only WA university offering a registrable general-dentistry qualification (DMD).

Our panel-interview prep covers ethics frameworks (SPIES, the four pillars), structured behavioural answers (STAR), and live mock interviews with admissions specialists.

The cycle runs roughly January 2025 (start of prep) through GEMSAS preference lock and state-TAC deadlines in September 2026, MMIs in October-December 2026, to first-round offers in December 2026 and course start in late January / early February 2027. Here are the milestones you cannot miss.

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.

32 commencing students in the most recent intake period Curtin publishes (Curtin Undergraduate Student Profile; Curtin does not name the year — the table covers all offer rounds plus international students studying in Australia). Entry basis: 20 (62.50%) admitted on prior higher education study including a bridging or enabling course, 5 (15.63%) solely on ATAR from recent secondary education, 5 (15.63%) on other criteria with ATAR not a factor, and fewer than 5 international. Only part of the intake arrives through TISC: TISC final figures for CUHHS show 22 offers and 9 enrolments for 2026 admission, and 17 offers and 13 enrolments for 2025 admission. The ADC report of August 2025 (updated February 2026) records Curtin intending to increase enrolments to 50 from 2026, subject to evidence of sufficient staffing, facilities, clinical placements and patient access.