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), World Education Services (WES) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine 6650 Salk Hall 3501 Terrace Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 648-2349 The International Advanced Standing Program (IASP) at the Universit…”
Program website
Small cohort — 5-10 (estimate) seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordShorter than most: 24 months to the degree, which cuts both time and total tuition compared with the typical program.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated March 2, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine 6650 Salk Hall 3501 Terrace Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 648-2349 The International Advanced Standing Program (IASP) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine (Pitt PDM) is designed to permit qualified international dentists who graduated from programs not accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation to earn a Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) degree from Pitt Dental Medicine. The IASP is a minimum of two academic years in length. It is individualized for each admitted student and may require additional time to complete. The program begins in May of each year with intensive, one-term didactic and preclinical courses. Following successful completion of this summer course, IASP students enter the predoctoral program.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 24 months
- Class size
- 5-10 (estimate)
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 19, 2026
- Program start
- May 3, 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), World Education Services (WES)
National board notes
- Program requires passage of NBDE Parts I and II or the Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) to be considered for admission. Official NBDE Part I & Part II
- INBDE results must be entered on the ADEA CAAPID application under the “Academic History” > “Standardized Tests” section.
- © 2013-2026 American Dental Education Association
- ADEA Privacy Policy
TOEFL instructions
- Applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)*.The Internet based and Home based TOEFL will both be accepted. Successful completion of the TOEFL with a score of 100 or above (5 or above for the new scoring scale) is required.
Letters of evaluation
- Two of the required Letters of Evaluation must be from either a dean, associate dean, department chair or faculty member of the dental school from which applicant graduated. One letter must be from a shadowing experience, preferably within the United States. These letters must be directly uploaded by the letter writers to ADEA CAAPID. When you fill out your CAAPID application you will provide the names of your evaluators and their contact information. CAAPID will then contact them via email with instructions on how to submit a letter. The email will include a link to an online portal where they will upload their letters. *
- These three letters are non-negotiable.
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 Terrace Street Pittsburgh change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 24 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteKiera Thomas
Admissions Coordinator
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine 6650 Salk Hall 3501 Terrace Street Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 648-2349
dentaladmissions@pitt.edu
Shabana Reza
Admissions Manager
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-pittsburgh-school-of-dental-medicine
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://dental.pitt.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 March 2, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine'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.
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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