UCLA School of Dentistry

UCLA School of Dentistry

Motto	Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English	"Let there be light"
Type	Public dental school
Established	1964
Parent institution	University of California, Los Angeles
Dean	Paul Krebsbach
Students	376 (predoctoral)
Location	Westwood, Los Angeles , California , United States 34°04′00″N 118°26′33″W / 34.06676°N 118.44248°W / 34.06676; -118.44248
Campus	Urban
Website	dentistry.ucla.edu

The UCLA School of Dentistry is the dental school of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) located in the Center for Health Sciences building in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The school has several educational and training programs, conducts oral and dental health research, and offers affordable dental care at three locations: Westwood, Venice, and Inglewood. The school also participates in several outreach endeavors, including numerous health fairs during the year, STEM pipeline programs and provides dental care for underserved populations in the region. The School of Dentistry is considered among the nation's best research-intensive dental schools.^[1]

In 2014 alone, new faculty grants and contracts awarded totaled nearly $20 million from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies.^[2] The school enrolls, on average, 88 doctoral candidates per year. Additionally, 20 foreign trained dentists are added to each class at the beginning of the third year. Accepted students have highly competitive grade point averages and dental admission test scores. Out of all 62 US dental schools for 2016, UCLA's average matriculant DAT score of 23 ranks second in the nation - behind Harvard and tied with Columbia. UCLA School of Dentistry's average GPA of 3.77 ranks second.^[3][4]