Largest dental schools by degrees awarded
65 dental schools in the fifty states and DC awarded 6,930 dental degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count. New York University awarded the most, 391.
Dental degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
Puerto Rico and the other territories are listed beneath the ranking with their degrees and no national rank, as every ranking on this hub sets them apart from the fifty states and DC.
Dental schools by state
37 of the fifty states and DC have at least one, ranked by the dental degrees their dental schools awarded; each links to its own ranking. 14 have none in NCES’s file: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
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| Rank | State | Dental schools | Degrees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 5 | 772 |
| 2 | California | 6 | 735 |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | 4 | 548 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 3 | 485 |
| 5 | Texas | 4 | 353 |
| 6 | Illinois | 3 | 309 |
| 7 | Michigan | 2 | 288 |
| 8 | Missouri | 2 | 248 |
| 9 | Florida | 2 | 246 |
| 10 | Ohio | 2 | 195 |
| 11 | Kentucky | 2 | 184 |
| 12 | Nevada | 2 | 181 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 2 | 171 |
| 14 | Nebraska | 2 | 167 |
| 15 | Arizona | 1 | 142 |
| 16 | North Carolina | 2 | 133 |
| 17 | New Jersey | 1 | 131 |
| 18 | Maryland | 1 | 128 |
| 19 | Minnesota | 1 | 118 |
| 20 | Colorado | 1 | 115 |
| 21 | Indiana | 1 | 112 |
| 22 | Alabama | 1 | 105 |
| 23 | Virginia | 1 | 103 |
| 24 | Wisconsin | 1 | 97 |
| 25 | Georgia | 1 | 89 |
| 26 | Iowa | 1 | 83 |
| 27 | South Carolina | 1 | 79 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 1 | 78 |
| 29 | District of Columbia | 1 | 74 |
| 30 | Oregon | 1 | 71 |
| 31 | Washington | 1 | 69 |
| 32 | Oklahoma | 1 | 66 |
| 33 | Maine | 1 | 64 |
| 34 | Connecticut | 1 | 52 |
| 35 | West Virginia | 1 | 50 |
| 36 | Utah | 1 | 49 |
| 37 | Mississippi | 1 | 40 |
| Alaska | None | None | |
| Arkansas | None | None | |
| Delaware | None | None | |
| Hawaii | None | None | |
| Idaho | None | None | |
| Kansas | None | None | |
| Montana | None | None | |
| New Hampshire | None | None | |
| New Mexico | None | None | |
| North Dakota | None | None | |
| Rhode Island | None | None | |
| South Dakota | None | None | |
| Vermont | None | None | |
| Wyoming | None | None |
What this data cannot show
- A dental school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 51.0401, Dentistry, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- 1 institution in NCES’s file awarded 35 dental degrees and is not ranked here, because it has no college page: it is outside NCES’s First Look universe of colleges that take federal student aid.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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