Farooqia Dental College and Hospital, Mysore: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Farooqia Dental College and Hospital is established in 1992 as one of the famous dental college located in Mysore, Karnataka. This affiliated college, approved by the Dental Council of India (DCI), provides all the dental programmes. Being a small college located in a small area of 4.93 acres, the college has a total 106 members of faculty with dedicated and personalised student-faculty ratio. About – Farooqia Dental College & Hospital provides 8 Programmes in 2 Courses of study for Dental Surgeon of Pakistan in all fields of Dentistry. The institute's commitment to diversity is evident in its student body, with a 32:Males to female ratio of 68/1 in the undergraduate programme.

Farooqia Dental College and Hospital offers students both academic and personal amenities that help them in their college endeavours. The library plays a role of information centre where information is requested and sought by students and researchers in fields of dentistry. For accommodation there is good and clean boys’ and girls’ hostels to accommodate outstation students. Basically, the college focuses on students’ health and has a health center within the compound complete with first aid amenities. For students to follow a healthy lifestyle, the school provides sports facilities for all students. The IT infrastructure also guarantees student access of modern technology for learning. Some of the extra facilities are canteen facility for eating during break time, an open air or a hall for conducting seminars and other related activities, spacious and well furnished class rooms for proper teaching learning activity.

It is an institute of Farooqia Dental College and Hospital that provides with 8 different courses where different kinds of levels of studying are possible, including both undergraduate and postgraduate ones. The programme that started off as a flagship one is Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), a full time programme with an approved total capacity of 40 students. At postgraduate level there are following courses offered in the dental college which include full time Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) in various specifications. These are MDS in Prosthetics, Periodontics, Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics, Oral pathology and Microbiology , Oral medicine and radiology etc. The college PR does not give the percentage of the number of seats to be filled for PG courses, but it does mention that the college admits both UG and PG students In general, according to the latest statistical data available, there are 59 students enrolled in the undergraduate programme.

The admission policy of Farooqia Dental College and Hospital is keen on merit, and the admission policies of the college are as determined by the authorities. As for BDS programme , the students are given admission according to the results of their National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). For NEET, every aspirant candidate should clear NEET, and besides, there should be the matriculation qualification all aspiring candidates who wish to join either of the two colleges. For postgraduate programmes, admissions are done using performance in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for MDS (NEET MDS). The college accepts these two national entrance examination thus following a common admission standard across the nation.