Indiana University School of Dentistry: Average DAT, GPA, and How to Get In

Numbers below come from the school's own published materials as of July 2026 (each is linked to its source). Admissions stats shift every cycle — treat these as a snapshot and confirm on the school's official admissions page before you apply.

Indiana University School of Dentistry (IUSD) is a public D.D.S. program in Indianapolis, Indiana — the only dental school in the state. Here's what the school itself has published about the D.D.S. Class of 2030 (entering class) and the cycle immediately before it, with every figure linked back to the exact IU page it came from.

IU admissions stats at a glance

IU's average DAT score

IU's how-to-apply page publishes, for the DDS Class of 2030, "Academic Average 440," with "Total Science 440" and "Reading Comp 445-450" also listed, per the school's own how-to-apply page. Those figures are on the ADA's new 200–600 DAT scale, not the old 1–30 scale. For comparison, IUSD's own Annual Report page reports the prior DDS Class of 2029 averaged a "DAT Academic Average 20.9" — on the old 1–30 scale, since that cohort tested before the 2025 scale change. So the two numbers you'll see floating around for IU (440 and 20.9) aren't directly comparable side by side; they're one class year and one scoring scale apart.

If you want to see where a 440 AA on the new scale actually sits nationally, our DAT score percentiles guide breaks down the ADA's official percentile tables, and our DAT score converter can translate between the old and new scales in one click — useful if you're comparing your own practice scores, or an old-scale number like IU's 20.9, against today's reporting.

IU's average GPA

For the DDS Class of 2030, IU's how-to-apply page reports an "Average Overall GPA 3.74" and "Average Science GPA 3.68," with an "Average Age 21.7" also listed on the same page, per the school's published admissions materials. The prior Class of 2029 averaged a "3.70" GPA overall, per IUSD's Annual Report page — so the overall GPA bar has moved up slightly from one entering class to the next.

Class size, deadline, and tuition

IUSD's Annual Report page reports the DDS Class of 2029 accepted 108 students out of 1,318 applicants, broken down as 88 Indiana residents and 20 out-of-state residents, per the school's own reporting. A class-size figure specific to the Class of 2030 (the same cohort as the 440 AA / 3.74 GPA numbers above) wasn't found published on IU's site, so this class-size figure is one year earlier than the DAT/GPA stats. On timing, IU's how-to-apply page states the AADSAS cycle opens June 2, and "all required materials must be received by the Indiana University School of Dentistry Office of Admissions no later than 4:00 p.m. EST on October 1," with the page adding that "applications or required materials received after the deadline will not be considered." Applicants must also complete a separate IU Grad CAS Supplemental Application and a Kira video assessment.

For tuition, Indiana University's official system-wide tuition and fee schedule lists the Indianapolis-campus "Dentistry (annual rate)" at $45,345 for Indiana residents and $101,985 for nonresidents for 2025-26, before a combined mandatory fee of roughly $1,244/year. IU's own Costs & Financial Aid page doesn't publish dollar figures directly and instead points applicants to an interactive fee estimator, so check that page directly for your own cycle's exact number.

A few IU admissions quirks worth knowing

A handful of details from IU's own admissions pages are easy to miss but can affect your application. Applicants must complete 100 total hours of shadowing before the October 1 deadline, split across general dentistry AND at least two different dental specialty practices (for example oral surgery, periodontics, or orthodontics), per the school's how-to-apply page. Beyond the standard AADSAS application, IU also requires a separate IU Grad CAS Supplemental Application and a Kira video-based assessment evaluating personality and motivation as part of its admissions review. And IUSD is the only dental school in Indiana — the school's own site states "75% of Indiana dentists are our alumni," and the school was founded in 1879 as the Indiana Dental College.

Bottom line

IU's own numbers — a 440 AA on the new DAT scale, a GPA around 3.7, and roughly 108 seats a year for its most recent reported cohort — describe the current published baseline for the state's only dental school, but IU does not publish an acceptance rate or a minimum score cutoff on its admissions pages, so we're not going to manufacture one. Use the figures above as the honest, sourced baseline, and check IU's admissions pages directly for anything specific to your application cycle.