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Dental schools

There are sixteen dental schools in the UK of which two are graduate entry, plus two postgraduate entry dental institutes.

Undergraduate dental schools

Belfast

Belfast School of Dentistry 
Queen’s University
qub.ac.uk/schools/mdbs 

Birmingham 

School of Dentistry     
University of Birmingham
birmingham.ac.uk/schools/dentistry 

Bristol

Bristol Dental School 
University of Bristol 
bristol.ac.uk/dental 

Cardiff 

School of Dentistry
Cardiff University
cardiff.ac.uk/dentistry 

Dundee 

School of Dentistry
University of Dundee

dentistry.dundee.ac.uk 

Glasgow 

Glasgow Dental School 
Glasgow University
gla.ac.uk/schools/dental 

Leeds 

School of Dentistry
University of Leeds 
medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/dentistry  

Liverpool

School of Dentistry 
University of Liverpool 
liverpool.ac.uk/dentistry  

London

King’s College Faculty of Dentistry
King's College London
kcl.ac.uk/dentistry 

Institute of Dentistry
Queen Mary University of London
qmul.ac.uk/study/dentistry

Manchester

Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health 
University of Manchester
bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/dentistry  

Newcastle 

School of Dental Sciences 
University of Newcastle
ncl.ac.uk/dental  

Plymouth 

Peninsula Dental School
University of Plymouth
plymouth.ac.uk/schools/peninsula-school-of-dentistry 

Sheffield 

School of Clinical Dentistry 
University of Sheffield
sheffield.ac.uk/dentalschool

Graduate entry dental schools

Shortened graduate entry degree courses are offered by Liverpool Dental School and King's Dental Institute in addition to the two dental schools below:

Aberdeen

Institute of Dentistry 
University of Aberdeen
abdn.ac.uk/dental 

Preston

School of Dentistry 
University of Central Lancashire 
uclan.ac.uk/schools/dentistry 

Postgraduate only dental institutes 

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Dental Institute
University of Edinburgh
ed.ac.uk/dentistry 

London

Eastman Dental Institute 
University College of London
ucl.ac.uk/eastman