This profile is the Advanced Standing (international) pathway.
It is for dentists who already earned a dental degree outside the U.S. and apply through ADEA CAAPID. It is not the four-year predoctoral program, and it is not a residency. See the same school's four-year DDS/DMD 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.
Hands are weighted as heavily as paperwork here — a bench test is part of selection, so preparation has to include a practical station, not just exams.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordEnglish is a hard gate: the program states a minimum TOEFL iBT score of 54.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordExams they list as required: INBDE, TOEFL.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordCredentials are only accepted through Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), World Education Services (WES) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “Graduates of a non-U.S.”
Program website
One of the larger intakes in this pathway at 35 seats, which usually means a wider interview pool.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 39 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
A separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated March 3, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
Graduates of a non-U.S. dental school may be able to obtain a U.S. dental degree within three years in this program at the Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine (NSU CDM). They would then become eligible for a U.S. dental license. This accelerated program helps dentists from other countries to transition into the system in the United States.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 39 months
- Class size
- 35
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 5, 2026
- Program start
- April 19, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- No
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), World Education Services (WES)
National board notes
- Integrated National Board Dental Examination is required.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- A minimum score of 4 (on the new TOEFL grading scale) is required on the TOEFL, a score of 6.0 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or a score of 54 on the Pearson Test of English—Academic.
Letters of evaluation
- Three professional Letters of Evaluation are required.
This program does not publish a tuition figure in the CAAPID directory, and we refuse to print a guess next to a number as consequential as this one. Tuition, instrument kits, fees and living costs in Fort Lauderdale change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 39 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteDr. Audrey Galka
3300 South University Drive Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328 (954) 262-7318
agalka@nova.edu
Calvin Mendes
Senior Associate Director, Dental Graduate Admissions
cmendes@nova.edu
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/nova-southeastern-university-college-of-dental-medicine
Fields taken from here: program length, class size, application open date, deadline, start date, bench test, supplemental application, required exams, transcript evaluator, TOEFL and letter instructions
- Program's own website
https://dental.nova.edu
Fields taken from here: tuition and cost of attendance, curriculum detail, contact details
Verification history
No manual re-check has been logged since the source page itself was dated March 3, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine's own website, so you are following the real feed and writing to the real office — nothing here is a look-alike page.
Accounts marked "university-wide" belong to the parent institution, not the dental school — the school itself does not run a separate feed on that platform.
Where these came from
https://dental.nova.edu/Videos & links about this program
Official campus walkthroughs, admissions info sessions and program pages posted by the administration — each with a short written summary of what it covers.
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