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: 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 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry provides a unique balance of clinical excellence, research opportunities and community service as part of one of the l…”
Program website
Class size sits around the pathway average at 20 seats.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 36 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated February 23, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry provides a unique balance of clinical excellence, research opportunities and community service as part of one of the leading health science centers in the nation. Since its founding in 1881, the School of Dentistry has evolved from the lone outpost of dental education west of the Mississippi into an international leader in the education of oral health care practitioners and scholars, comprehensive dental care and breakthrough research. The school has a tradition of service, strong clinical programs that prepare dentists for the future and research activities at the vanguard of contemporary science. Beginning the 2023-2024 admissions cycle, the UCSF International Dentist Pathway has only been offering a 3 year track. After evaluating feedback from the campus community, the two year pathway has been phased out. It was decided to extend the program for an additional year to ensure full integration with our DDS curriculum exposing more clinical experience which would result in our graduates being well-prepared for a professional career in the U.S. It also allows our IDP cohort to partake in amazing research opport
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 36 months
- Class size
- 20
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 15, 2026
- Program start
- June 14, 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
- Passing the Part I and Part II of the National Board Dental Examination or the Integrated National Board Dental Examination is optional but strongly recommended.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- TOEFL scores within two years of opening of application cycle
- Minimum TOEFL scores is 95 or higher on the internet based test (iBT) or a 5 or higher with the new TOEFL score scale. The home based TOEFL exam is accepted. MyBest TOEFL scores are accepted and should be uploaded to the ADEA CAAPID application.
Letters of evaluation
- Please submit three Letters of Recommendation via ADEA CAAPID application only. One is required from a clinician who has supervised your work, another from an academic from your home institution (required within 5 years from graduating; if unable to obtain, you can submit two professional letters of recommendation) and one of your choice. If your recommender is unable to obtain letterhead, we require them to upload the letter directly to ADEA CAAPID, and it must include their electronic signature and all their contact information.
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 San Francisco change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 36 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteInternational Dentist Pathway
Office of Admissions & Outreach SoD Learner Success Center 707 Parnassus Avenue, D4010 San Francisco, CA 94143-0636
idpadmissions@ucsf.edu
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry provides a unique balance of clinical excellence, research opportunities and community service as part of one of the leading health science centers in the nation. Since its founding in 1881, the School of Dentistry has evolved from the lone outpost of dental education west of the Mississippi into an international leader in the education of oral health care practitioners and scholars, comprehensive dental care and breakthrough research. The school has a tradition of service, strong clinical programs that prepare dentists for the future and research activities at the vanguard of contemporary science.
Beginning the 2023-2024 admissions cycle, the UCSF International Dentist Pathway has only been offering a 3 year track. After evaluating feedback from the campus community, the two year pathway has been phased out. It was decided to extend the program for an additional year to ensure full integration with our DDS curriculum exposing more clinical experience which would result in our graduates being well-prepared for a professional career in the U.S. It also allows our IDP cohort to partake in amazing research opportunities and community-based clinical externship rotations at UCSF.
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-california-san-francisco-school-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.ucsf.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 23, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of California, San Francisco School 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.
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