Study Dentistry in Europe: Where It Is Taught, Entry Scores and Fees
Fee figures: catalogue of 6 October 2026.
Dentistry has few places everywhere, because every student needs a chair in a teaching clinic. That makes it almost as selective as medicine. Our catalogue lists 122 dentistry programmes at 115 universities in 6 countries.
How places are allocated
- Spain. By access score on the scale up to 14. At public universities the last admitted student had between 12.37 and 13.21 in the latest lists we hold. Many of the 27 Spanish programmes are at private universities, which run their own selection and charge much higher fees. Dentistry in Spain.
- Portugal. By the national contest on a 200-point scale; dentistry closed between 177.8 and 178.3. Dentistry in Portugal.
- Italy. Dentistry follows the same national rules as medicine: an open first semester, national exams and a ranking. Dentistry in Italy.
- Germany. Places are allocated through hochschulstart.de, mainly by school-leaving grade. Dentistry in Germany.
- Czechia. Faculty entrance exams in biology, chemistry and physics. 5 of the 13 programmes are taught in English and charge tuition. Dentistry in Czechia.
- Switzerland. Restricted admission together with medicine. Dentistry in Switzerland.
France trains dentists through the same first-year health tracks as doctors, so there is no separate dentistry entry on Parcoursup and no French dentistry programmes in our catalogue. See medicine in Europe for how that selection works.
Length of the degree
Five years in Spain, Portugal, Czechia and Germany (where it ends with a state examination), six years in Italy, and three years of bachelor plus two of master in Switzerland.
What it costs
Typical fees for EU students at public universities in our catalogue: €1,007 a year in Spain, €697 a year in Portugal, €2,907 a year in Italy before income-based reductions, and no tuition in Germany. For non-EU students the typical public fee is €2,160 a year in Spain and €8,000 a year in Portugal.
Budget for more than tuition. Dental students buy instruments and materials for pre-clinical courses, and universities publish these lists separately from the fee.
Language
Only 9 programmes in the catalogue are taught in English. Clinical training means treating patients, so the local language is needed in practice even where lectures are in English.
Recognition
Dentistry is one of the professions with automatic recognition inside the EU, the EEA and Switzerland: a degree that meets the common training standard is accepted in the other member countries without an extra exam, although each country can ask for proof of language skills before registration.
Where to look next
Official sources
Always check current information on the official website of the university before you apply.