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 recordExams they list as required: NBDE, INBDE, TOEFL.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordCredentials are only accepted through Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “The International Advanced Placement Program (IAPP) of the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM)is a full-time, daily, Monday through Friday, 27-month program tha…”
Program website
Small cohort — 6-10 (estimate) seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
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 record
A separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated July 28, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The International Advanced Placement Program (IAPP) of the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM)is a full-time, daily, Monday through Friday, 27-month program that offers qualified graduates of foreign dental programs the opportunity to earn the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree. Following successful completion of an initial 3-month didactic review and intensive skills development course (Clinical Certification Course), that is designed to assure congruence with our traditional students, candidates will merge with the junior class to complete the final two years of the DMD curriculum. Graduates of the program will have acquired the requisite knowledge and skills to engage in contemporary dental practice, and be eligible to take state and regional dental licensing examinations offered in the United States.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 27 months
- Class size
- 6-10 (estimate)
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 5, 2026
- Program start
- February 8, 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)
National board notes
- Please visit SIU School of Dental Medicine's website for current application requirements, instructions, and frequently asked questions.
TOEFL instructions
- Please visit SIU School of Dental Medicine's website for current application requirements, instructions, and frequently asked questions.
Letters of evaluation
- Please visit SIU School of Dental Medicine's website for current application requirements, instructions, and frequently asked questions.
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 Alton 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. Manita Grover
Director
The IAPP of SIU-SDM Admissions Team
Southern Illinois University
School of Dental Medicine
2800 College Ave., Bldg. 273
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/southern-illinois-university-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://www.siue.edu/dental
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 July 28, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off Southern Illinois University 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.
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://www.siue.edu/dental/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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