Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine: 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.

KCU College of Dental Medicine (KCU-CDM) is the private DMD program run by Kansas City University out of its Joplin, Missouri campus. If you've gone looking for an average DAT or GPA and come up empty, you're not missing anything — KCU's own "Student Profile" page publishes class-profile stats for its Osteopathic Medicine, Biosciences, and PsyD programs, but has no entry for CDM, per kansascity.edu. Here's everything the school does publish, sourced and linked.

KCU dental school stats at a glance

Average DAT and GPA

KCU-CDM does not publish an average DAT score or an average GPA for admitted or entering students on any of its official pages — a genuine gap in the school's own materials, not something we're choosing to omit. If you're picking a target score without a published bar to aim at, our DAT score percentiles guide breaks down the ADA's official percentile tables, and our DAT score converter converts old-scale (1–30) scores to the new 200–600 scale in one click. Check the school's admissions page in case either figure gets published for a future cycle.

Class size, tuition, and deadline

KCU-CDM's Class of 2029, which matriculated in August 2025, has 82 students, per an official KCU blog post on the class's white coat ceremony. The prior cohort, the Class of 2028 (matriculated August 2024), had 81 students, with 49% from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, or Oklahoma, roughly 20% underrepresented minorities, and roughly 20% first-generation college graduates, per a separate KCU blog post on that class's ceremony.

For 2026–2027, KCU-CDM's published cost is $106,800 base tuition plus a $70 activity fee and a $4,750 academic support fee, totaling $111,620 for the year, per the school's official tuition page. That page notes the flat rate applies regardless of residency and puts the full four-year cost at $446,480, while warning rates are subject to change at the institution's discretion.

KCU hasn't published a fixed AADSAS submission deadline for CDM. Its "How to Apply" and FAQ pages describe the AADSAS portal opening around June 1, interviews running August through February or March, and decisions starting December 15 — but for the exact date, KCU points applicants to AADSAS itself. Confirm current dates on the school's admissions page.

What admissions actually looks for

A few things stand out in KCU-CDM's admissions materials. Human Anatomy (4 semester hours) is a required standalone prerequisite — not every dental school breaks anatomy out on its own, per the school's requirements page. KCU also gives admissions preference to permanent residents of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and to graduates of its own College of Biosciences, per the same page. Once in, students get early clinical and community-based experience starting the summer after year one, and fourth-years complete two 12-week clinical rotations at community or regional health-system sites across that four-state region, per the admissions FAQ.

KCU also runs "Partner Program" early-acceptance pipelines with schools like Rockhurst University and Missouri Western State University, letting qualifying sophomores or juniors gain early admission — in some cases finishing a bachelor's plus the DMD in as few as seven years, with the bachelor's requirement waived for participants, per Rockhurst's program page and KCU's requirements page.

How we use this data ourselves

Every figure here traces to a kansascity.edu page or blog post we linked directly, not a forum estimate. We didn't report an average DAT or GPA, because the only such numbers we found came from aggregator sites that disagreed with each other and cited no verifiable primary source — not something we'll publish as fact. Check the school's admissions page before you apply, since KCU could publish CDM class-profile stats at any point.