Dental schools in Queensland
Queensland's three dental schools span every Australian pathway. UQ runs a 5-year undergraduate BDSc(Hons) (~65 places) with one of the country's highest ATAR cut-offs (~99.00) plus UCAT-ANZ and MMI. Griffith offers a sequential BDOH-then-DMD route at the Gold Coast (~75 combined places). James Cook University in Cairns runs a 5-year undergraduate BDS (~40 places) selecting on written application and interview only — no UCAT or GAMSAT — with a clear rural workforce mandate.
UQ Dental
St Lucia
UQ's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Science (Hons) (BDSc) is co-located with the Oral Health Centre at Herston, distinguished by the most ATAR-competitive dental program in Australia and a no-interview UCAT-ranked selection model.
JCU Dental
Cairns
JCU Dental's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) trains dentists for tropical, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across northern Australia, anchored at the Cairns Smithfield campus with placements across Townsville, Mount Isa, and Thursday Island, distinguished by a no-aptitude-test selection model and a tropical/rural workforce mission.
Griffith Dental
Gold Coast
Griffith's integrated dental pathway — 3-year Bachelor of Dental Health Science (BDHS) into a 2-year graduate Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry (DMD) — is anchored on the Gold Coast (Southport) campus at the Griffith Health Centre, with clinical placements across Gold Coast Health, Logan, and rural Queensland.