UK Dental Schools — Entry Requirements & Interview Formats
Browse every UK dental school. See entry requirements, UCAT cut-offs, interview formats and decision dates — updated for 2026/2027 entry.
Birmingham
Birmingham
Major UK dental school in the West Midlands with a strong NHS-clinical focus and competitive UCAT thresholds.
Bristol
Bristol
High-UCAT dental school in the South West with strong clinical training and creative pre-interview tasks.
Cardiff
Cardiff
Wales-based dental school with a GCSE-driven scoring system and an MMI mapped to GDC professional attributes.
Dundee
Dundee
Scotland's dedicated dental school with weighted academic + UCAT shortlisting and a personal-statement-driven interview.
Glasgow
Glasgow
Scottish dental school with a long teaching history and UCAT-driven shortlisting feeding a traditional panel interview.
King's College London (KCL)
London
London-based dental institute with a heavily weighted GCSE and contextual-points scoring system, plus combined undergraduate and graduate-entry routes.
Leeds
Leeds
Yorkshire-based dental school with a balanced UCAT + academic + personal-statement scoring system.
Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool-based dental school with one of the longest MMI formats in the UK and a non-academic information form replacing some personal-statement weighting.
Manchester
Manchester
Manchester dental school with a holistic assessment philosophy: applicants below the UCAT threshold are still considered if other factors compensate.
Newcastle
Newcastle
Newcastle-based dental school with a panel interview, generous contextual partners scheme, and a strong work-experience expectation.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Peninsula (Plymouth) dental school with an interview-score-based offer system, no personal-statement consideration, and a strong manual-dexterity emphasis.
Queen Mary (QMUL)
London
Barts and The London-based dental institute with a unique two-part interview (article + personal qualities) and a 4th-decile UCAT minimum.
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
Northern-Ireland dental school with a points-based scoring system tolerant of lower UCAT deciles, given strong GCSEs.
Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield dental school with the highest current-cycle UCAT requirement and a unique panel-plus-group-task format.
Graduate-Entry Dental Routes
These programmes are designed for graduates and have different selection processes.
Aberdeen (Graduate Dentistry)
Aberdeen
Graduate-entry-only dental programme at Aberdeen — biosciences/allied healthcare 2:1 minimum, 90-minute MMI, offers on interview performance only.
UCLan (Graduate Dentistry)
Preston
Preston-based graduate-entry dental programme. Biomedical 2:1 minimum, GCSE English & maths grade B, CCC at A-level including 2 from biology/physics/chemistry/maths.