Dental Schools in Colorado

Colorado has exactly one dental school: University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine. That single fact shapes your whole application strategy — there is no second in-state option to fall back on, so a Colorado residency is either a decisive advantage at one school or it is worth nothing at all.

If you are a resident, this page is the most important cost decision you will make. Residency is the single largest lever on the price of a dental degree, and it is decided long before your DAT. What your DAT decides is how many of these doors are open.

Every dental school in Colorado

Cost figures are estimates modelled from cost-of-attendance data published circa 2022, assuming the full cost is financed with federal loans and interest accrues in school. With one exception (Michigan) every row in the model is an out-of-state or private figure — so if you are a Colorado resident applying to a public school here, your real number is likely to be meaningfully lower. See the full model and all 64 schools →

The cheapest dental school in Colorado

On the modelled figures, University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine is the lowest four-year cost in Colorado: $510,028 including in-school interest ($402,238 before it), or roughly $596,682 once you project it to today at about 4% a year.

Read that gap carefully. $107,790 of that total is interest — money you never borrowed and never spent, accruing on year-one loans while you sit in year-four clinic. It is the part of the price nobody quotes you, and it is the part that a cheaper seat eliminates outright.

What in-state residency is worth in Colorado

We will not invent a number here. Our model carries exactly one measured in-state row across all 64 schools — the University of Michigan — and there the gap between the in-state and out-of-state price of the identical degree, in the identical building, is $113,721.

That is the honest scale of the residency lever, and it is why the cost column above is a ceiling rather than a quote for Colorado residents at public schools. What it means practically: if you have residency somewhere, a public school in that state is almost always your cheapest path to the same license — and your DAT is what decides whether they take you.