Sydney Dental
2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
University of Sydney School of Dentistry in Sydney, NSW runs a graduate-entry dentistry program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: GAMSAT. Published hurdles: GAMSAT — minimum 50 in each section is a hard eligibility hurdle for standard applicants.
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Established
- 1901
- Interviews (2027 entry)
- No interview (domestic)
- Decisions (2027 entry)
- September 2026 (domestic first round) / October 2026 (international), rolling to January 2027
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Read the guide →What the Sydney Dental course is like
Integrated, 4 years (graduate entry), placements in Westmead, Surry Hills, other Sydney clinics and rural NSW.
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Sydney's 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) is taught at the Camperdown campus with clinical education at Sydney Dental Hospital, the Westmead Centre for Oral Health and Nepean Hospital, plus placements at local health district dental hospitals in regional and rural NSW including Ballina, Broken Hill, Dubbo, Orange and Armidale — Australia's first dental school, open since 1901.
What makes Sydney Dental different
Sydney runs a 4-year graduate-entry Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) co-located with Sydney Dental Hospital.
Domestic selection is unusually mechanical: GPA and a minimum of 50 in every GAMSAT section are eligibility hurdles only, and applicants are then ranked on GAMSAT section scores alone — USyd states that overall and average GAMSAT scores will not be used in the assessment and ranking of applications — with no interview for standard domestic applicants; an interview or SJT is held in reserve only to separate equally-ranked applicants.
Strong research integration and Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) entry pathway.
Sydney Dental course & teaching
Integrated curriculum. 4-year graduate DMD. 4-year graduate-entry DMD (192 credit points). The curriculum is structured around seven integrated themes — clinical sciences and skills; oral and systemic biosciences; evidence-based practice; prevention and health promotion; social and cultural oral health; leadership, communication and professionalisation; and interprofessional collaboration — taught through simulation and practice-based experience.
Clinical education runs at the University of Sydney Camperdown campus, the Westmead Centre for Oral Health and Sydney Dental Hospital, with further placements at Nepean Hospital and at local health district dental hospitals in remote, regional and rural NSW including Ballina, Broken Hill, Dubbo, Orange and Armidale.
Sydney Dental research strengths
Sydney Dental is strong in these research areas:
- Oral cancer
- Dental materials
- Indigenous oral health
- Periodontal disease
How the Sydney Dental interview runs
Format: No interview for standard domestic applicants — ranked on GAMSAT section scores (international applicants submit a portfolio and may be interviewed)
The Sydney DMD has no interview stage for standard domestic applicants. The 2027 Domestic Admissions Guide sets three eligibility requirements — an eligible bachelor's degree with a UAC-assessed GPA hurdle, GAMSAT with at least 50 in every section, and English — and then ranks applicants on their GAMSAT section scores.
An interview or Situational Judgement Test is held in reserve only to separate applicants who rank equally, with due notice. Interviews do appear elsewhere: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants under the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Schemes may be required to attend one, and the Bachelor of Oral Health variant of that scheme requires a written assessment and panel discussion.
International applicants must submit an Admissions Portfolio (a personal statement of up to 1,500 words plus an optional supporting document) and may be required to attend an interview, selected on their test results and portfolio; USyd states international offers are made on final rankings 'and satisfactory performance in the portfolio and interview', but publishes no format, length or station count for it.
Sydney Dental intake
USyd anticipates 76 domestic DMD offers for 2027 entry — 30 Commonwealth Supported (TBC, a number that includes places reserved for undergraduate Double Degree Dentistry students) and 46 Domestic Fee-Paying (TBC) — per the DMD Offer Preferences (August 2026). These are anticipated offers, not a confirmed intake: 'The University reserves the right to make more or less offers than anticipated, at the discretion of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health.' International offers are additional and not published.
Where Sydney Dental is
University of Sydney School of Dentistry was founded in 1901 and is based in Sydney.
Programmes offered:
- Oral Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Public Dental Health
- Indigenous Oral Health
- Periodontics
What you need to apply to Sydney Dental
Sydney Dental at a glance
| Entry pathway | Graduate entry |
|---|---|
| GPA | Minimum GPA 5.0/7.0 as calculated by UAC's Qualifications Assessment Service, assessed as at 4 June 2026 for 2027 entry |
| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 in each section is a hard eligibility hurdle for standard applicants |
| Intake | USyd anticipates 76 domestic DMD offers for 2027 entry |
| Admission overview | Bachelor's degree of at least 3 years FTE, with at least 2 years FTE completed at the awarding institution, completed by 1 January of the commencement year; UAC Qualifications Assessment Service GPA of at least 5.0/7.0 (4.5 for the rural facilitated-entry scheme), assessed as at 4 June 2026 for 2027 entry; GAMSAT with a minimum of 50 in each section (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants excepted); and the English language requirement. USyd sets no overall-GAMSAT requirement, and there is no interview for standard domestic applicants — ranking is on GAMSAT section scores. |
|---|---|
| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 in each section is a hard eligibility hurdle for standard applicants. The guide exempts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants from that hurdle, but this is not a blanket waiver of GAMSAT: under the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme for applicants with a bachelor's degree, eligible GAMSAT results must still be submitted and 50 per section is 'preferred', with the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group able to recommend applicants who score lower. Only the postgraduate-degree and Bachelor of Oral Health Indigenous schemes require no GAMSAT result at all. USyd ranks DMD applicants on individual section scores. For 2027 entry, eligible GAMSAT sittings are September 2024, March 2025, September 2025 and March 2026 only — USyd requires results from the past two years "despite any contrary advice from ACER or GAMSAT", and notes this requirement may change for future cycles. (International applicants may instead submit US DAT or Canadian CDAT results; see the international admission-test note for the current minima.) |
| GPA | Minimum GPA 5.0/7.0 as calculated by UAC's Qualifications Assessment Service, assessed as at 4 June 2026 for 2027 entry — a hard hurdle, and the same one the USyd MD applies, not a lower one. The 4.5 figure applies to the Rural Applicants Facilitated Entry Scheme; the Indigenous schemes also work to 4.5, and the IAAG may recommend applicants with a lower GPA who demonstrate improvement over the duration of their tertiary studies. |
| Place types | For 2027 entry USyd anticipates 76 domestic offers — 30 Commonwealth Supported Places (a number that 'includes places reserved for undergraduate Double Degree Dentistry students') and 46 Domestic Fee-Paying places, both marked TBC, with the University reserving the right to make more or fewer at the Dean's discretion. Identical admission criteria apply to both types, and applicants nominate a preference order at the confirmation-page stage. USyd publishes no anticipated number of international offers. Rural and Indigenous applicants are not separate place types but facilitated entry schemes whose ranking lists may differ from the standard pathway, and under which offers may be made to applicants scoring below the standard cut-off. |
| Indigenous pathway | Three separate Indigenous Facilitated Entry Schemes, overseen by the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group (IAAG): (1) bachelor's degree plus GAMSAT — GPA 4.5 and 50 per section are both 'preferred' rather than required, and an interview may be required; (2) postgraduate master's or PhD completed within three years — no bachelor's degree and no GAMSAT needed, GPA of at least 4.5 subject to IAAG discretion, résumé required and an interview may be required; (3) Bachelor of Oral Health — no GAMSAT, plus a compulsory written assessment and panel discussion. The requirement to have completed two years FTE at the awarding institution is waived across the schemes. No quota is published. |
| Bonded / rural | Rural Applicants Facilitated Entry Scheme: at least 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years from birth in an ASGS Edition 3 Inner Regional, Outer Regional, Remote or Very Remote area, certified on a Confirmation of Rural Origin form completed by a registered medical practitioner, dentist, pharmacist, lawyer, school principal or current/former employer. USyd audits these forms by contacting the author; family members cannot complete them and statutory declarations are not accepted. Rural applicants get a lower GPA hurdle (4.5 vs 5.0), their ranking list may differ from the standard pathway, and offers may be made below the standard cut-off. USyd publishes no bonded places for the DMD — the only domestic place types in the 2027 Offer Preferences are Commonwealth Supported and Domestic Fee-Paying. |
| Specialities offered | Oral Surgery, Orthodontics, Public Dental Health, Indigenous Oral Health, Periodontics |
How Sydney Dental interviews applicants
| Format | No interview for standard domestic applicants — ranked on GAMSAT section scores (international applicants submit a portfolio and may be interviewed) |
|---|---|
| Interview window (2027 entry) | No interview (domestic) |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | September 2026 (domestic first round) / October 2026 (international), rolling to January 2027 |
| Post-interview chances | Not applicable — there is no interview stage for domestic applicants, and USyd publishes no applicant-to-offer ratio. |
Sydney Dental's domestic selection is unusually mechanical, and that should reshape your prep: there is no domestic interview, no portfolio and no personal statement, so every hour goes into GAMSAT and GPA. Two things matter most. First, 50 in every section is a hard hurdle — one section below 50 ends the application no matter how strong the others are, so a lopsided profile is far riskier here than at schools that rank on an overall score. Second, USyd ranks on individual section scores and explicitly discards overall and average scores, so the usual "my overall is 65" framing tells you nothing about your competitiveness here. Get your UAC Qualifications Assessment Service application in inside the designated window — GPA is assessed by UAC, not the faculty, and the cut-off date is unforgiving. Note too that USyd only accepts GAMSAT sittings from the past two years regardless of ACER's own validity period. If you are of rural origin, the Confirmation of Rural Origin form is audited and cannot be signed by family, so line up a suitable author early.
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