Ohio State University College 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.

Ohio State University College of Dentistry is a public DDS program in Columbus, Ohio. If you're building your school list, here's exactly what OSU has told applicants about its own program, straight from the school's own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed — and where a figure comes from an older cohort or a different scale than you'd expect, we flag that explicitly rather than let you misread it.

Ohio State dental school stats at a glance

Ohio State's average DAT score

The only official numeric class-profile document we found on dentistry.osu.edu is a stats infographic labeled "DDS Class of 2025," which reports a DAT Academic Average (AA) of 21, Total Science (TS) of 20.5, and PAT of 21.5, per the school's published class-statistics PDF. Those figures are on the old 1–30 DAT scale, since the Class of 2025 cohort predates the ADA's 2023 rescaling. Ohio State's current published DAT minimums for new applicants — 370 AA, 360 PAT, and 380 SNS — are on the new 200–600 scale, per the school's DDS Application Process page, so those two numbers aren't directly comparable to the class-average figures above. We could not find a more recent, post-rescale class-profile PDF with new-scale DAT averages on the school's site, so treat the 21 AA / 20.5 TS / 21.5 PAT figures as the most recent official average available, not necessarily the bar for the current cycle.

Either way, a published average is more useful with percentile context attached. Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's own official percentile tables on the new scale, and our DAT score converter lets you translate an old-scale figure like Ohio State's 21 AA into its new-scale equivalent so you can see roughly where it would land today.

Ohio State's average GPA

The same DDS Class of 2025 stats PDF reports a Total GPA of 3.65 and a Science GPA of 3.56, per the school's published class-statistics PDF. As with the DAT figures, this is class-average data for one specific cohort rather than a stated ongoing minimum, so confirm current expectations directly with the school before you apply.

Class size and admission selectivity

Ohio State's entering DDS class held 120 seats for the Class of 2025 — 107 Ohio residents and 13 non-residents, with an average age of 22 and an age range of 20 to 38, per the school's published class-statistics PDF. Ohio State doesn't publish an acceptance rate, but the college anticipates interviewing over 250 applicants per cycle, with interviews held in October and November and admission decisions communicated on or after December 15, per the school's official DDS Application Process page.

One quirk worth knowing before you apply: applicants must complete at least 8 of 12 required prerequisite courses — anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, English composition, microbiology, and physics — each with a C or better, per the official DDS Application Process page. Notably, Ohio State lists standalone Anatomy and Physiology courses as separate prerequisites in addition to general Biology, which not every dental school requires.

Application deadline

Per the school's official DDS Application Process page, your AADSAS application must be complete, verified, and sent to Ohio State by the October 1 deadline. The college notes it anticipates interviewing over 250 applicants per cycle in October and November, with admission decisions communicated on or after December 15, per the same page.

Tuition and cost of attendance

Per Ohio State's official Cost of Attendance page, base tuition (excluding fees) for the 2026-2027 academic year is $52,360 for Ohio residents in D1 (a 9-month year) and $62,720 per year for residents in D2 through D4 (12-month years). Non-residents pay $118,414 in D1 and $144,913 per year in D2 through D4. These are published tuition figures only, not full cost of attendance including fees and living expenses, so confirm the complete current-year budget on the school's cost of attendance page before you plan around it.

A few other things worth knowing

Fourth-year students complete 50 days of community-based clinical care through the college's "OHIO Project," and the college reports nearly 130,000 patient interactions annually, per the official DDS Application Process page. That's a meaningful amount of hands-on patient care built directly into the curriculum before graduation.

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