A prospective student who desires to make application for admission to graduate study should contact the Office of Graduate Studies electronically at rpasma@umich.edu. Or write to: School of Dentistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1078. Please indicate the program in which you are interested. An application form will be sent, which should be completed and returned to the School of Dentistry with an application fee of $55. At the same time, applicants should request all schools from which they received predental or dental education to forward two official transcripts of their scholastic records directly to the Office of Graduate Studies.

Completed applications will be evaluated by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and by the admissions committee of the School of Dentistry. Admission criteria are applied equally to all applicants regardless of race, sex, color, age, or creed. In order to receive full consideration by the committee, applications and credentials of those who are interested in endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery (foreign, except Canada, are not eligible for this program), orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, and periodontics must be received by October 1, preceding the fall term in which the candidate wishes to begin study. Applications for prosthodontics must be received by November 1. The due date for the programs in restorative dentistry (occlusion, operative dentistry) is November 15. The due date for all other programs is February 1. The program in biomaterials will admit students in the fall, winter, and spring-summer terms. In the event circumstances prevent the completion of the application by the specified date, the candidate should write to the Office of Graduate Studies to determine whether an opening still remains in the course of study desired.

Applications are accepted for admission to the Doctoral Program in Oral Health Sciences by October 1 and by February 15, for admission in winter and fall terms.

Foreign applicants whose native language is not English are required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language before final admission. Foreign applicants should plan to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and submit the score to the University of Michigan prior to the deadline date for completed applications. An applicant must pass the required English language examination with a score sufficiently high for full-time study at this Institute. Instructions for taking the TOEFL examination may be obtained by writing to: TOEFL, Educational Testing Service Box 899, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 08541.

The programs in oral and maxillofacial surgery, pediatric dentistry, and periodontics, and prosthodontics participate in the Postdoctoral Dental Matching Program.

The program in oral and maxillofacial surgery participates in the Post doctoral Application Support Service (PASS). To obtain an application and informational materials, an applicant should write to PASS, Suite 101, 1625 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036-2212.

All students are required to have and to use a Social Security number for identification purposes on University records.