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, Other.
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 International Dental Studies (IDS) program at the Arthur A.”
Program website
One of the larger intakes in this pathway at 57 seats, which usually means a wider interview pool.
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 the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni 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 20, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
The International Dental Studies (IDS) program at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry offers qualified internationally educated dentists the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge of the dental profession as practiced in the United States. Graduates of this program receive a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and are eligible to sit for any state or regional dental board in the country. This two-year accelerated program enrolls 57 students in early July of each year. 27 Students are selected for our San Francisco campus at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, and 30 students are selected for our Pacific Health Care Collaborative program, which hosts an additional IDS class at our facility in Sacramento, CA. The full-time, five-day-a-week program consists of eight quarters of study. The curriculum, consisting of academic and clinical training, uses the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, our brand-new Pacific Health Care Collaborative, as well as facilities and other clinical sites in Northern California. IDS students begin clinical patient care in the second quarter and spend the greater portion of their second year in clinical practice.
- Degree awarded
- D.D.S.
- Program length
- 24 months
- Class size
- 57
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- June 12, 2026
- Program start
- July 5, 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)
National board notes
- To be considered for admission, Dugoni School requires passage of both NBDE Parts I and II (a minimum score of 75 or a "Pass" result) OR the Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) with a "Pass" result.
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TOEFL instructions
- Applicants are required to take the TOEFL under the new TOEFL scoring format effective January 21. A minimum overall score of 4.5 or higher is required to be considered for admission. Applicants must request ETS to submit TOEFL scores directly to ADEA (School code - B451). Scores prior to January 21st, 2026 will not be accepted.
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Letters of evaluation
- Submit three letters with the CAAPID Application. All should be in English and written within the last 2-3 years; at least 2 letters must be from a dental professional (i.e., dentists, faculty, etc.). A dean's letter is not required for our program.
- New:
- Starting in the 2026-2027 CAAPID application cycle, we will allow one additional optional letter of recommendation to be submitted. This additional letter should be from a dental professional (academic or professional reference). Additionally, this letter needs to be physically (not digitally) signed and printed on company letterhead. This letter can be submitted through ADEA CAAPID through the program materials' documents section. No additional letters will be accepted through mail or email.
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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 24 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteLisa Moe
IDS Senior Admissions Coordinator
International Dental Studies Admissions
155 Fifth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
ids@pacific.edu
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/university-of-the-pacific-arthur-a.-dugoni-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://dental.pacific.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 20, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
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