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) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “The University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry, Office of Student Affairs, 801 S.”
Program website
One of the larger intakes in this pathway at Up to 52 (estimate) seats, which usually means a wider interview pool.
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
University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated February 24, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry, Office of Student Affairs, 801 S. Paulina St, Rm. 104 Chicago, IL 60612 The UIC College of Dentistry offers an advanced standing program for foreign-trained dentists. The Doctor of Dental Medicine Advanced Standing (DMD-AS) is designed to provide foreign-trained dentists with the education and experience required to practice dentistry in the US. Beginning in January, the program consists of 28 months of coursework and clinical experience to deliver strong competencies in health promotion and disease prevention, diagnosis, evidence-based practice, communication, collaboration, and community engagement. Students will benefit from innovative Team-based (TBL) learning models and courses in Applied Oral and Behavioral Sciences, Oral-Systemic Issues, and Community-Based Learning. Upon completion of the program, students receive a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree and are eligible for licensure to practice dentistry in the United States of America.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 28 months
- Class size
- Up to 52 (estimate)
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 15, 2026
- Program start
- January 1, 2027
- Bench test
- No
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- No
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)
National board notes
- Program requires passage of NBDE Parts I and II or Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) at the time of application to be considered for admission.
- Submit the official NBDE score report to ADEA CAAPID®. Candidates invited for an interview will be required to request that the American Dental Association (ADA) send an official score report to the UIC COD Office of Admissions via email.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- Official scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) are required for admission.
- All students must meet the minimum TOEFL iBT sub-scores to be eligible to apply:
- TOEFL iBT
- Minimum Score
- Minimum Score
- New Scale
- Total
- Listening
Letters of evaluation
- UIC COD requires three (3) letters of recommendation. Preferably, one should be from a U.S. dental practitioner. The College will only accept Letters of recommendation submitted via ADEA CAAPID. UIC COD will not accept additional letters of recommendation via the university’s online application or via email. Letters of recommendation must be on letterhead and must include a signature.
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 Chicago 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 websiteBraulia Espinosa
Director of Student Affairs
The University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry, Office of Student Affairs, 801 S. Paulina St, Rm. 104 Chicago, IL 60612
codadmissions@uic.edu
The UIC College of Dentistry offers an advanced standing program for foreign-trained dentists. The Doctor of Dental Medicine Advanced Standing (DMD-AS) is designed to provide foreign-trained dentists with the education and experience required to practice dentistry in the US. Beginning in January, the program consists of 28 months of coursework and clinical experience to deliver strong competencies in health promotion and disease prevention, diagnosis, evidence-based practice, communication, collaboration, and community engagement. Students will benefit from innovative Team-based (TBL) learning models and courses in Applied Oral and Behavioral Sciences, Oral-Systemic Issues, and Community-Based Learning. Upon completion of the program, students receive a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree and are eligible for licensure to practice dentistry in the United States of America.
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-illinois-chicago-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.uic.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 24, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Illinois Chicago 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.
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Where these came from
https://dentistry.uic.edu/Videos & links about this program
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