University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
Already a dentist? This school runs a separate Advanced Standing program.
The four-year program on this page is for applicants without a dental degree. Dentists who qualified outside the U.S. apply to the international pathway instead — see University of Minnesota School of Dentistry's Advanced Standing profile.
Every line below is read from a published record — the program's own entry or its admissions page. No acceptance rates or average scores appear here, because no board publishes them per program.
Predoctoral applicants only: a DAT score and prerequisite science coursework, submitted through ADEA AADSAS.
School admissions page
CODA-accredited DDS awarded in Minneapolis, MN over 4 years of full-time training.
School admissions page
Rolling review is the norm in this pathway — files completed early in the cycle are read first and interview slots fill from autumn onwards.
School admissions pageThis school also runs an Advanced Standing program for internationally trained dentists — if you already hold a dental degree, that is your route, not this one.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
GPA, DAT and class-size expectations change every cycle and only the school publishes them — read them on the page linked here rather than trusting any third-party number.
School admissions page
University of Minnesota School of Dentistry awards the DDS through the traditional four-year predoctoral route: you apply as a college graduate, train inside a CODA-accredited school in Minneapolis, and graduate eligible for licensure as a general dentist.
Nothing on this page carries over to an Advanced Standing (CAAPID) application. That is a separate admissions system with its own service, exams and deadlines — if you already hold a dental degree earned outside the U.S., start there instead.
Why we don't print a GPA, DAT or class size here
Those three numbers change every cycle and each school publishes its own. We link you to the page that owns the figure rather than repeating a stale copy of it.
- Pathway
- 4-year predoctoral
- Degree awarded
- DDS
- Program length
- 4 years
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Application service
- ADEA AADSAS
- Admissions exam
- DAT
- Licensure exam
- INBDE after graduation
- Class size
- Published by the school
- A bachelor's degree is expected at almost every school, even where it is not formally required.
- The DAT is required; scores older than two to three years are usually not accepted.
- GPA and DAT expectations are published per school and change every cycle — read them on the school's own admissions page.
- This pathway is for applicants without a dental degree. If you already hold a dental degree earned outside the U.S., the Advanced Standing pathway is the correct route.
Four-year tuition, instrument kits, fees and living costs in Minneapolis are published by the school and revised annually — often with a large resident vs non-resident gap at public schools.
Read the current cost-of-attendance sheet, then model the loan side of it here.
- 1Finish the prerequisite science coursework your target schools list (biology, general and organic chemistry, physics, biochemistry — exact credits vary by school).
- 2Sit the DAT. Most applicants test in the spring or early summer of the year they apply.
- 3Open an ADEA AADSAS application when the cycle opens (TMDSAS instead, for Texas public schools).
- 4Send official transcripts for every institution attended, plus letters of evaluation (commonly a pre-health committee letter or two science faculty plus one dentist).
- 5Submit early — most schools review on a rolling basis and interview from autumn onwards.
- 6Complete any school-specific supplemental application and fee once you are invited.
- 7Interview, then respond to offers inside the ADEA traffic-rules deadlines.
- 8After graduating, pass the INBDE and your state or regional clinical licensure exam.