Dental

The total tuition fee for Manipal College of Dental Sciences is INR 16.6 lakh. This information is sourced from official website/ sanctioning body and is subject to change. Aspirants need to pay the course fee at the time of admission to confirm their seat in the college. Candidates need to pay the full first-year course fee along with the refundable caution deposit at the time of reporting.

Manipal College of Dental Sciences under the MAHE Manipal offers courses at UG, PG and certificate levels in the Dental field. The college offers BDS at UG and MDS at PG levels. Admission to MCODS Manipal courses is entrance-based. However, the merit of the aspirants is considered in the last qualifying exam for admission to certificate courses.

Manipal College of Dental Sciences admission process includes multiple steps. Candidates are first required to register on the official website of the college for the preferred course. Applicants are selected for BDS and MDS programmes based on NEET-UG and NEET-PG scores, respectively. Aspirants are allotted seat via MCC counselling and seat allotment.

No, NEET is the mandatory exam for admission to Manipal College of Dental Sciences BDS programme. Aspirants are first required to qualify NEET and then appear for counselling and seat allotment through MCC. NEET exam is conducted once a year in offline or paper-pencil-based test (PBT) mode for three hours and 20 minutes or 200 minutes. NEET includes 200 questions from Physics, Chemistry and Biology, out of which 180 questions have to be attempted.

AIIMS Delhi ranked as the No. 1 Dental college in India followed by Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences and Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences.

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Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital accepts NEET-UG score for admission to BDS programme. NEET is an offline exam conducted once a year  for three hours and 20 minutes or 200 minutes. As far as the NEET exam pattern is concerned, there are 200 questions from Physics, Chemistry and Biology, out of which 180 questions need to be attempted. Aspirants with rank equal or above the NEET cutoff are offered seat in the BDS programme.

There are a total of 100 seats in BDS programme of Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital. Candidates are offered seat in BDS based on NEET-UG score. Once the candidates are offered seat, they need to report with the specified documents for verification. Shortlisted candidates need to further pay the course fee to confirm their seat in the college.

Students pursuing BDS from Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital can apply for scholarship offered by Indian Dental Association. IDA provides IDA-Colgate Merit Awards. Students wishing to get the scholarship should be an under graduate student of BDS and, more importantly, an IDA Member. They must be among the first three rank holders in the respective BDS academic years.