Bhabha College of Dental Sciences, Bhopal: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Bhabha College of Dental Sciences is one of the premier dental colleges founded in 2008 at Bhopal in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. this constituent college has been blessed with accreditation from the Dental Council of India DCI and provides its students with a wide array of dental programmes. Located at a campus area of 5 acres, the college has a total enrollment from all classes of 300 and faculty members of 97. Currently, the institute provides 9 courses in two levels of dental degrees and various dental specializations. With a diverse student body of 218, comprising 75% undergraduate and 25% postgraduate students, the college maintains a balanced gender ratio of 1:1.37 (male to female).

The college has numerous amenities that help in the learning processes of the students in the college facility. Accommodation facilities there are gender Cisco campus owing to the presence of separate hostels for boys and girls and the presence of reading and recreational rooms. A school library boasts of 4869 books –real and 47 journals titles –real in addition to an E-library with twenty suits of computers and internet access to the Ebsco E-journal Portal. The college affords lots of importance to health with a health centre within the college that offers first aid. For physical health enhancing and recreation the students can play at various sports facilities available in the campus such as cricket ground, basketball, volley ball, and foot ball courts and fully equipped Gym. The campus also has centrally air-conditioned auditorium with a sitting capacity of 250 involving seminar and guest lectures. Also, the college has transport facilities for students and other members entering different points of Bhopal city to mobilise them easily.

The course offered in Bhabha College of Dental Sciences includes 9 courses, 1 at the under graduate and 8 at the post graduate level. The flagship programme also is the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) which is a full time five-year course and for which 100 students are admitted. At post graduate level it has following course of Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) which are full time courses of three years each. The AMA classifies these as MDS in operative dentistry, orthodontics, oral pathology, oral medicine, periodontology, prosthodontics and dental public health. The total students that this college is able to admit for all courses offered is three hundred and because of the importance the college gives to laboratory practicals, the college boasts of good laboratories with modem facilities.

For admissions into Bhabha College of Dental Sciences major intake comes with the help of the National Level Examinations. For the BDS programme, any candidate who passed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) is admitted. Likewise, for all MDS programmes, NEET-MDS is the common entrance test for all the courses in MDS programs for admission into the respective college. These examinations also guarantee competent students from the list of applicants who wish to master dental medicine.  This financial commitment shows the willingness of the institution in financially supporting quality of dental education for a wider number of students.