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We offer an overview of the top 50 best dental universities in the world for foreign students. Dentistry courses abroad usually last five years (six if a base year is required), require a high academic and technical level. Dental students will study the causes of diseases, methods of prevention, treatment of diseases of the oral cavity and teeth.
Dentistry is one of the most highly competitive areas among applicants: successful candidates demonstrate high academic grades, adherence to the subject studied, willingness to study for a long time, as well as cognitive abilities, work skills necessary to concentrate for a long period of time.
The first year of study focuses on basic medical and clinical knowledge in anatomy, physiology, oral biology and biochemistry. These academic classes will continue throughout the study period, but hands-on guided work will begin towards the end of the first year of study. For practical classes, students of prestigious universities and medical schools are offered modern imitation mannequins.
Graduates of dental faculties work as trainees in the public health service or in the private sector. Due to the highly specialized set of skills possessed by graduates of dentistry, they work only in their chosen specialty at the beginning of their careers:
- Dental Nurse
- Dental hygienist
- Dentist-therapist
- Dental Technician
- Dentist
Top 50 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Dentistry
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 89.5 |
| 2 | Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) | 88.6 |
| 3 | University of Hong Kong | 87 |
| 4 | Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) | 86.1 |
| 5 | King`s College London | 84.5 |
| 6 | Universität Bern | 84.4 |
| 7 | Karolinska Institutet | 84.3 |
| 8 | University of Zurich | 83.2 |
| 8 | University of California, San Francisco | 83.2 |
| 10 | Harvard University | 83.1 |
| 11 | University of Gothenburg | 83 |
| 11 | Sichuan University | 83 |
| 13 | Universidade de São Paulo | 81.3 |
| 14 | Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) (formerly UNIVERSITY OF DAMMAM) | 81.1 |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 79.7 |
| 16 | Queen Mary University of London | 79.6 |
| 17 | KU Leuven | 79.4 |
| 17 | Complutense University of Madrid | 79.4 |
| 18 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 78.6 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | 78.2 |
| 20 | University of Washington | 78.1 |
| 21 | University of Birmingham | 77.9 |
| 22 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | 77.3 |
| 23 | Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences | 77.2 |
| 24 | The University of Melbourne | 77.1 |
| 25 | New York University (NYU) | 76.8 |
| 26 | Tufts University | 76.6 |
| 27 | UCL | 76.4 |
| 27 | Universidad de Chile | 76.4 |
| 27 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 76.4 |
| 32 | Malmo University | 75.9 |
| 33 | Yonsei University | 75.6 |
| 33 | Peking University | 75.6 |
| 35 | The University of Queensland | 74.8 |
| 36 | University of Geneva | 74.2 |
| 37 | UNESP | 74.1 |
| 37 | Wuhan University | 74.1 |
| 37 | University of Iowa | 74.1 |
| 40 | University of Adelaide | 74 |
| 41 | Radboud University | 73.9 |
| 42 | University of Otago | 73.8 |
| 43 | Aarhus University | 73.6 |
| 44 | Cardiff University | 73.1 |
| 44 | University of Leeds | 73.1 |
| 46 | Columbia University | 72.7 |
| 47 | Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) | 72.5 |
| 48 | Boston University | 72.3 |
| 49 | The University of Sydney | 72.2 |
| 49 | The University of Manchester | 72.2 |
