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 record
In their own words: “The International Dentist Track in The Ohio State University College of Dentistry is intended for dentists who have completed their dental education outside of the United States and are loo…”
Program website
Small cohort — 4 seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLater deadline than most (July 31, 2026) — useful as a second-wave application if an exam retake pushes your timeline.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Restricted to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the published record — if you need visa sponsorship, this seat is not open to you.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordA separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
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 April 1, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The International Dentist Track in The Ohio State University College of Dentistry is intended for dentists who have completed their dental education outside of the United States and are looking to obtain their Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. This program provides qualified international dental graduates with the opportunity to prepare for and meet licensure requirements with the ultimate aim of practicing within the United States. Through an accelerated and rigorous curriculum, students admitted to the International Dentist Track will participate in a combination of didactic coursework, simulation-based training, and supervised clinical experiences. The curriculum is designed for incoming students to begin as second-year students, with completion occurring in 28 months.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 28 Months
- Class size
- 4
- Application opens
- May 1, 2026
- Application deadline
- July 31, 2026
- Program start
- January 4, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- Yes
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Not published
National board notes
- Must have either a passing score on the Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) or Part 1 and Part 2 of the National Board Dental Examination.
TOEFL instructions
- If score results were before January 21, 2026: Minimum score is 90
- Any scores after January 21, 2026: Minimum score is 4.5
Letters of evaluation
- Letters may not come from a relative.
- Minimum of 2 letters, but no more than 4 for can be submitted. (If more than 4 are provided, we will only review the first 4 that were entered.)
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 Columbus change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 28 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteGarien Hudson
Director of Admissions
305 W 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
hudson.671@osu.edu
6142474633
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/the-ohio-state-university-college-of-dentistry
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://dentistry.osu.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 April 1, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off The Ohio State University College of Dentistry'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://dentistry.osu.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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