Dental Schools in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. has exactly one dental school: Howard University College of Dentistry. That single fact shapes your whole application strategy — there is no second in-state option to fall back on, so a Washington, D.C. 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 Washington, D.C.

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 Washington, D.C. resident applying to a public school here, your real number is likely to be meaningfully lower. See the full model and all 64 schools →

What in-state residency is worth in Washington, D.C.

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 Washington, D.C. 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.