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 recordEnglish is a hard gate: the program states a minimum TOEFL iBT score of 100.
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 Oklahoma College of Dentistry (OU COD) offers a 29-month Advanced Standing for International Students (ASPID) program for international dental graduates who are U.S.”
Program website
Class size sits around the pathway average at 18 seats.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 29 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
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 is required on top of CAAPID — a CAAPID submission alone is incomplete here.
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 6, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry (OU COD) offers a 29-month Advanced Standing for International Students (ASPID) program for international dental graduates who are U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents who are seeking to complete an accredited doctoral program in dentistry so as to be eligible for licensure to practice in the United States. Following an initial four-month review and intensive skills development course, students merge with the junior class to complete the final two years of the D.D.S. curriculum.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 29 months
- Class size
- 18
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 5, 2026
- Program start
- January 11, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- No
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- Yes
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)
National board notes
- Must have a passing score on NBDE Part I or the Integrated NBDE, preferrably within the last five years. NBDE Part II is optional but will be considered if score is provided.
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TOEFL instructions
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores are required for all non-native, English-speaking applicants. Internet-based TOEFL (TOEFL iBT) scores are preferred. Minimum of 94 (iBT)/5.0 (New Scoring) is required. Suggested score of 100 (iBT)/6 (New Scoring) or above to be competitive. Provided TOEFL information to ADEA CAAPID® only, do not submit documentation to OU COD. Read more about the program’s TOEFL requirements online. The OU COD institutional code is 6902. TOEFL scores more than two years old are not accepted.
Letters of evaluation
- Two Letters of Evaluation are required on letterhead.
- One Letter of Evaluation should come from dean or senior administrator of the dental school from which the applicant graduated.
- Additional letter(s) from faculty at former dental school is preferred.
- Submit letters to ADEA CAAPID.
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 Oklahoma City change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 29 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteJohn J Slish
Director of Recruitment & Admissions
University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry
1201 N. Stonewall Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73117
405-271-8001 x57627
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-oklahoma-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.ouhsc.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 6, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Oklahoma 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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