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.
No bench test is published, so the decision rests on exams, documents and the interview — your written file has to do all the work.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordExams they list as required: NBDE, 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: “The Internationally Educated D.M.D.”
Program website
One of the larger intakes in this pathway at 40 seats, which usually means a wider interview pool.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordShorter than most: 27 months to the degree, which cuts both time and total tuition compared with the typical program.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLater deadline than most (September 16, 2026) — useful as a second-wave application if an exam retake pushes your timeline.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated February 20, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The Internationally Educated D.M.D. Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) is designed to enable qualified dentists educated outside the United States or Canada to earn a Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) degree following a special 27-month didactic and clinical program.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 27 months
- Class size
- 40
- Application opens
- March 16, 2026
- Application deadline
- September 16, 2026
- Program start
- February 1, 2027
- Bench test
- No
- Supplemental application
- No
- 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
- Program requires a passing score of NBDE Parts I and II or Integrated NBDE (INBDE) to be considered for admission. Submit official NBDE and/or INBDE scores to RSDM after submitting ADEA CAAPID application.
TOEFL instructions
- Applicants whose native language is not English, are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and submit to ADEA CAAPID
Letters of evaluation
- Program accepts max 3 Letters of Evaluation.
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 Newark change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 27 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteDr. Rosa Chaviano-Moran
Associate Dean of Admissions
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine Office of Admissions 110 Bergen Street, Room B829 Newark, NJ 07101-1709
chaviaro@sdm.rutgers.edu
Magaly Vasquez
Admissions Coordinator
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey-school-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://sdm.rutgers.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 February 20, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off Rutgers School 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.
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