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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karolinska Institutet | 92.7 |
| 2 | The University of Hong Kong | 91.1 |
| 3 | Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam the Netherlands | 91 |
| 4 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 90.3 |
| 5 | King's College London | 90.1 |
| 6 | University of California, San Francisco | 89.2 |
| 7 | University of Zurich | 88.2 |
| 8 | University of Bern | 87.2 |
| 9 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 86.9 |
| 10 | Sichuan University | 86.7 |
| 11 | Complutense University of Madrid | 84.9 |
| 12 | Queen Mary University of London | 84.6 |
| 13 | Harvard University | 84.5 |
| 14 | University of Gothenburg | 84.3 |
| 15 | Universidade de São Paulo | 83.5 |
| 16 | Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) | 83 |
| 17 | University of Pennsylvania | 82.1 |
| 18 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 81.5 |
| =19 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 81.3 |
| =19 | University of Birmingham | 81.3 |
| 21 | University of Washington | 80.8 |
| 22 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 80.6 |
| 23 | KU Leuven | 80.5 |
| 24 | New York University (NYU) | 80.3 |
| 25 | Saveetha Institute of Medical And Technical Sciences (SIMATS) , Tamil Nadu,India | 80.2 |
| =26 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | 80.1 |
| =26 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 80.1 |
| 28 | University at Buffalo SUNY | 79.3 |
| 29 | Tufts University | 79 |
| 30 | Universidad de Chile | 78.4 |
| 31 | University of Geneva | 78.2 |
| 32 | Chulalongkorn University | 78 |
| 33 | Wuhan University | 77.8 |
| 34 | Jordan University of Science & Technology | 77.7 |
| 35 | The University of Sheffield | 77.5 |
| 36 | Universitat Internacional de Catalunya | 77.3 |
| 37 | UCL | 77 |
| =38 | Columbia University | 76.9 |
| =38 | Malmo University | 76.9 |
| =38 | UNESP | 76.9 |
| =41 | Cardiff University | 76.8 |
| =41 | The University of Melbourne | 76.8 |
| 43 | Yonsei University | 76.7 |
| 44 | Newcastle University | 76.5 |
| 45 | Peking University | 76.4 |
| 46 | Universidad de los Andes - Chile | 76.1 |
| 47 | Boston University | 75.6 |
| 48 | The University of Manchester | 75.4 |
| 49 | Adelaide University | 75.2 |
| 50 | University of Otago | 75.1 |
