University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1896 |
| Dean | Thomas W. Braun |
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Academic staff
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178 |
| Students | 439 (77 undergraduate, 322 first professional, and 40 specialty residents) |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Campus | Oakland (Main) |
Coordinates: 40°26′33″N 79°57′46″W / 40.442601°N 79.962684°W
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine is the dental school of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of Pitt’s six schools of the health sciences and one of several dental schools in Pennsylvania. It is closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The School of Dental Medicine accepted 3.6% of applicants for the class of 2016, a record low for the school's entire history.
Located in Salk Hall on Pitt’s campus, the School of Dental Medicine is widely recognized for excellence in education, service, and research. Each year, between 70 and 80 students graduate from Pitt’s D.M.D. program.
Admission into the School of Dental Medicine is highly competitive. Eighty incoming students were accepted out of 2,200 applications submitted. Total mean college GPA of incoming students in 2010 was 3.61 (science 3.56); academic average DAT score was 20.32 (science 20.09).
Dr. Thomas W. Braun is the School of Dental Medicine’s current dean, a post that he has held since 2000.
Originally founded as the Pittsburgh Dental College, the school was organized and chartered simultaneously with its establishment as a department of dentistry at the Western University of Pennsylvania, the former name of the University of Pittsburgh. The School of Dental Medicine welcomed its first class of 119 freshmen that September. The school grew quickly and moved into increasingly larger facilities. Under the leadership of Dean H. Edmund Friesell, the Dental College was renamed the School of Dentistry when it became an integral part of the university when the university assumed charge of the Dental Department and property following the implementation of an agreement on October 5, 1905. By the 1920s, the dental school was reported to be, for at least a time, the largest in the world.
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