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: 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 Internationally Trained Dentist Program (ITDP) at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (U-M SOD) offers a course of study that includes didactic, laboratory and comprehensive…”
Program website
Class size sits around the pathway average at 20 seats.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
University of Michigan 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 9, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The Internationally Trained Dentist Program (ITDP) at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (U-M SOD) offers a course of study that includes didactic, laboratory and comprehensive patient care experiences. Graduates will acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to engage in contemporary dental practice in the United States and will be eligible to take most state and regional dental licensing examinations offered in the United States. The ITDP is an accelerated course of study that begins in January each year as 20 ITDP students engage in a hybrid semester with second-year students before fully joining the third-year class for spring/summer, fall and winter terms. The second year of the program includes didactic and clinical courses as well as required clinical rotations. Achieving passing evaluations in all coursework will result in the granting of a D.D.S. degree.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 28 months
- Class size
- 20
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- May 30, 2026
- Program start
- January 8, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- No
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- No
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)
National board notes
- Please visit the
- ITDP website
- for current application requirements including INBDE details.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- Please visit the
- ITDP website
- for current application requirements including TOEFL details.
Letters of evaluation
- Please visit the
- ITDP website
- for current application requirements including 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 N. University Ann Arbor 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 websiteITDP Admissions
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Office of Admissions ITDP
1011 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078
internationaldent@umich.edu
734-763-3316
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-michigan-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://dent.umich.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 9, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Michigan 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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