University of Utah 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.

The University of Utah School of Dentistry is a public DDS program in Salt Lake City, UT. Here's exactly what Utah has told applicants about its own program, straight from the school's pages, with nothing rounded or guessed — including a spot where two of the school's own pages don't fully agree, which we call out rather than paper over.

Utah dental school stats at a glance

Utah's average DAT score

Per the school's official DDS Admissions Quick-Start Guide (footer dated 08/25), "Current D1 averages" are AA = 22, PAT = 21, and SNS (Total Science) = 22 on the old 1–30 DAT scale — approximately equivalent, per the guide itself, to AA = 460, PAT = 450, SNS = 460 on the new 200–600 scale. Worth flagging: the school's separate, live Admissions Requirements page states a different current D1 average — AA = 470, PAT = 480, SNS = 480 (new scale only) — fetched the same day. Both are legitimately published by the school; the gap likely reflects the two pages describing different cycles that weren't refreshed together. The minimum on every section is 380 (new scale), per the Requirements page.

For national context on 450–480 AA, our DAT score percentiles guide breaks down the ADA's official tables, and our DAT score converter converts any practice score — old or new scale — against either of Utah's numbers.

Utah's average GPA

The same Quick-Start Guide lists "Current D1 averages" of 3.76 cumulative GPA and 3.69 science GPA. The Admissions Requirements page sets the minimum to be considered at 3.0 cumulative and 3.0 science, so the published average sits comfortably above that floor.

Class size

Utah's admissions pages don't publish a numeric class-size figure directly. The best-sourced number we found is a University of Utah Health news article (May 2024), reporting the school "now training a full cohort of 50 future dentists," up from an inaugural cohort of 20 in 2013. The school doesn't publish an acceptance rate.

Application deadline

Per Utah's official How to Apply page, applications must be filed between June 2 (or the opening of AADSAS) and October 15 of the preceding academic year for fall entry, with credentials due by October 15 and first-round acceptances beginning December 15. The Quick-Start Guide states the same window.

Tuition

Per the Quick-Start Guide's tuition table, labeled for the 2025–2026 academic year, residents pay $47,840 tuition plus $6,959 dental program fees and $1,803 university fees. Non-residents pay $90,570 tuition plus the same fees. Tuition is expected to increase annually, and non-residents keep that classification for the whole program — no in-state reclassification.

What makes Utah's DDS program distinct

A few details worth knowing, per the school's own pages. Utah's prerequisites unusually include Anatomy, 3 semester hours — not every dental school requires this — on top of standard bio, chemistry, physics, biochemistry, and microbiology. Every applicant must also complete both the Casper and Duet assessments through Acuity Insights; missing either makes an application incomplete. And the program emphasizes early clinical exposure — students treat patients about a year earlier than at many peer schools — as Utah's sole Medicaid dental provider, with the cohort grown from 20 in 2013 to about 50 today.