Program Surveys
The Commission on Dental Accreditation conducts annual surveys of all accredited predoctoral, advanced, and allied dental education programs.
Predoctoral dental education program survey reports include general information, student and graduate data, curriculum, and financial management data on dental schools in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
The advanced dental education survey reports provide information on the advanced dental education programs in advanced education in general dentistry, general practice residency, dental anesthesiology, orofacial pain, oral medicine, dental public health, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial pathology, oral and maxillofacial radiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
The allied dental education survey reports summarize data provided by administrators of dental assisting, dental hygiene and dental laboratory technology programs accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
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Survey of Dental Education Series
Annual survey of all predoctoral dental education programs accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. Reports in the series include general information, student and graduate data, curriculum, and financial management of dental schools in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Report 1: Academic Programs, Enrollment and Graduates
Provides statistical information on academic programs, admission requirements, and enrollment and graduate levels. Also features trends in applications, first-year and total enrollment, first-year repeaters, numbers of graduates, and female student enrollment.
Report 2: Tuition, Admission and Attrition
Includes annual resident and non-resident tuition, general fees and other fixed costs associated with instruments, textbooks, and health services. Also provides data on admissions policies of dental schools in the U.S. and Canada, number of applications, academic qualifications of first-year students, criteria employed in the admissions process, advanced placement and number of international dental school graduates, distribution of first-year students according to citizenship, and student attrition and withdrawal information.
Report 3: Finances
Provides financial information from the previous fiscal year from accredited U.S. dental schools. Revenue and expenditures are presented by individual category and in total. Includes ratios of revenue and expenditures per student and comparisons between public and private schools.
Report 4: Curriculum
The curriculum survey was updated in 2014-15 to provide dental schools with an internal benchmarking tool that monitors compliance to CODA Standards and prepares programs for future site visits. The survey is currently conducted every other year. The revised report features national level data divided into the following sections:
- Instructional methods and assessments of competency used to demonstrate compliance with select CODA Standards
- Evaluation methods used to generate evidence of compliance with CODA Standards on the learning environment
- Methods used to integrate instruction in biomedical and behavioral sciences with instruction in the clinical sciences, as described in the document "Foundation Knowledge for the General Dentist,” prepared by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations (JCNDE) Committee on the Integrated Examination (CIE)
- Descriptions of curriculum format, content and innovations
- Patient care experiences by class year
- Clock hours of instruction by category
- Download 2016-17 Report 4 (XLSX)
- Download 2015-16 Report 4 (XLSX)
- Download 2014-15 Report 4 (XLSX)
The previous version of the curriculum report, last published for 2010-11, summarized clock hours of instruction in biomedical sciences; dental/clinical sciences; and behavioral, social, information, and research sciences in U.S. dental schools by curriculum type and major teaching area.
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Survey of Advanced Dental Education
Provides annual information on the advanced dental education programs in advanced education in general dentistry, general practice residency, dental anesthesiology, orofacial pain, oral medicine, dental public health, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial pathology, oral and maxillofacial radiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. Features general program information, student demographic data, enrollment and graduate levels, and tuition and stipends.
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Survey of Allied Dental Education
Annual series that summarizes data provided by administrators of dental assisting, dental hygiene, and dental laboratory technology programs accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. Includes descriptions of academic programs, admission requirements, and enrollment and graduate levels.
Report 1: Dental Hygiene Education Programs
Report 2: Dental Assisting Education Programs
Report 3: Dental Laboratory Technology Education Programs