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Find and Compare Dental Schools Worldwide
Explore dental schools across countries. Compare qualifications, admissions, teaching languages, tuition, and clinical training.
1,296 verified dental schools in 120 countries and territories so far. Research is not complete — see coverage.
Browse Schools A–Z
Every verified school, alphabetically — local-language and domestic-only schools included.
Browse Countries A–Z
Countries with at least one verified school. Every other country and territory has a page with its research status.
- Afghanistan (3)
- Algeria (2)
- Argentina (4)
- Australia (9)
- Austria (4)
- Azerbaijan (1)
- Bangladesh (4)
- Belarus (2)
- Belgium (3)
- Benin (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
- Brazil (118)
- Bulgaria (3)
- Cambodia (1)
- Canada (10)
- Chile (8)
- China (31)
- Colombia (34)
- Costa Rica (1)
- Côte d'Ivoire (1)
- Croatia (3)
- Cyprus (3)
- Czechia (4)
- Denmark (2)
- Dominican Republic (4)
- Ecuador (2)
- Egypt (13)
- Estonia (1)
- Ethiopia (1)
- Fiji (1)
- Finland (4)
- France (21)
- Georgia (11)
- Germany (29)
- Ghana (2)
- Greece (2)
- Guatemala (1)
- Guyana (1)
- Haiti (1)
- Honduras (1)
- Hong Kong (1)
- Hungary (4)
- Iceland (1)
- India (320)
- Indonesia (15)
- Iran (1)
- Iraq (1)
- Ireland (3)
- Israel (1)
- Italy (20)
- Japan (29)
- Jordan (3)
- Kazakhstan (3)
- Kenya (2)
- Kosovo (1)
- Kuwait (1)
- Kyrgyzstan (1)
- Latvia (1)
- Lebanon (2)
- Libya (2)
- Lithuania (2)
- Malawi (1)
- Malaysia (5)
- Mali (1)
- Mexico (8)
- Mongolia (1)
- Morocco (2)
- Myanmar (1)
- Nepal (6)
- Netherlands (3)
- New Zealand (1)
- Nicaragua (1)
- Nigeria (20)
- North Macedonia (1)
- Norway (2)
- Oman (1)
- Pakistan (57)
- Palestine (1)
- Panama (1)
- Papua New Guinea (1)
- Paraguay (1)
- Peru (42)
- Philippines (5)
- Poland (9)
- Portugal (7)
- Puerto Rico (2)
- Qatar (1)
- Romania (10)
- Russia (43)
- Saudi Arabia (3)
- Senegal (1)
- Serbia (3)
- Singapore (1)
- Slovakia (2)
- Slovenia (1)
- South Africa (3)
- South Korea (9)
- Spain (32)
- Sri Lanka (2)
- Sudan (3)
- Sweden (4)
- Switzerland (4)
- Syria (1)
- Taiwan (3)
- Tajikistan (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Thailand (18)
- Trinidad and Tobago (1)
- Türkiye (96)
- Turkmenistan (1)
- Uganda (2)
- Ukraine (8)
- United Arab Emirates (3)
- United Kingdom (17)
- United States (71)
- Uruguay (2)
- Uzbekistan (3)
- Vietnam (2)
- Zambia (1)
- Zimbabwe (1)
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Dental programs by pathway
Initial qualifications, advanced standing, postgraduate and research programs are kept apart: they lead to different things and are never mixed in one list.
Initial Dental Qualifications
Programs that prepare applicants for the dentist pathway: DDS, DMD, BDS, BChD and nationally appropriate equivalents.
1,312 programs at 1,296 schools listed so far
Advanced Standing for Internationally Educated Dentists
Programs that admit applicants who already hold a dental qualification, often a degree earned in another country.
29 programs at 29 schools listed so far
Postgraduate Specialties
Verified specialist, clinical and academic programs taken after an initial dental degree.
145 programs at 44 schools listed so far
Research Degrees
Relevant master's and PhD research programs in dental and oral sciences.
20 programs at 15 schools listed so far
Postgraduate specialties
Specialties with at least one verified program. Whether a program leads to specialist registration depends on the country; check the licensing body.
- Dental Public Health6 programs · 6 schools
- Endodontics16 programs · 16 schools
- General Dentistry14 programs · 14 schools
- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology1 program · 1 school
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery15 programs · 14 schools
- Oral Medicine2 programs · 2 schools
- Oral Pathology1 program · 1 school
- Orthodontics31 programs · 29 schools
- Pediatric Dentistry16 programs · 16 schools
- Periodontics18 programs · 18 schools
- Prosthodontics14 programs · 14 schools
- Other locally recognized specialties11 programs · 10 schools
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Recognition and accreditation, explained
National authorization, institutional accreditation, dental-program accreditation and directory listings are separate records with their own authority, scope and date. A listing in this directory is not accreditation, and no badge tells you whether a degree will let you practise where you want to. How we record recognition.
Understand dental qualifications
DDS, DMD, BDS, BChD and national degrees mean different things in different systems.
Admissions and tuition guides
Entry routes, international admissions and how to compare costs honestly.
Recognition and accreditation guides
National authorization, accreditation and directory listings are different things.
Admissions and tuition
How admission to dentistry differs between countries, and how we record tuition, instrument kits and laboratory fees without mixing bases or currencies.
Admissions worldwide · Tuition and funding · International admissions
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Schools and education providers can sponsor placements. Paid placements are always labelled “Sponsored” and never change facts, verification or the alphabetical order of the directory.
How the directory is researched
- verified schools
- 1,296
- countries and territories with a verified school
- 120
- of 249 areas researched so far
- 249
- detailed program records
- 19
We research country by country, starting from official discovery sources — dental regulators, ministries, accreditors and national admission portals — then confirm each school's identity, campus, operating status and initial dental qualification on an official source. Every published fact carries its source and verification date.
Commercial interest plays no part in which countries are researched, in what order, or how schools are listed. Listings are free, alphabetical and never ranked.
Editorial methodology · Data sources and verification · Coverage by country