Mahe Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Mahe, Pondicherry: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

MINDS is a 10-year-old premier dental education institution, located in Mahe, Pondicherry, started in the year 2009. This affiliated college is also NAAC accredited and DCI recognized and it has a 5.672 acres campus, where it provides following dental programs. MINDS currently has an enrollment of 464 students and has 177 teaching faculty which makes it a great learning institution. The institute teaches 7 courses at 2 degree levels and focuses on the area of dentistry. Very populous, the students’ population is made of students from other states, representing 64% of total enrolled students, female-dominated student population; 80% of undergraduate students.

In addition with a huge collection of books, MINDS provide students with different facilities for their practical day-to-day live and education. Boys and girls have their separate hostels to facilitate comfortable stay for out station students. The college not only has a canteen to meet the students’ dietary requirements but also a variety of them inclusive of vegetarian and non vegetarian foods. 

In the field of academics and career, the institute includes an auditorium for organizing common events and seminars along with a separate lab for every department for hands-on practical knowledge. Taking care of the bodily health of the students, a football ground, basketball court, and a gym are available in the college. In that regard, MINDS keep up the latest IT innovation by having a good IT infrastructure. In the same, there is a health center to meet any first aid services as well since every man has exigent medical emergencies.

Here the institute is providing all types of dental education courses. For the undergraduate MINDS offers a BDS program with acward and 100 seats. The college provides several postgraduate courses like various Master of Dental Surgery specializations like Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Prosthodonics, Periodontology and Implantology and Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry. These postgraduate programs usually contain between 2-3 seats per program. All the offered courses are day programmes, making the education process highly intense and specific to dental teaching. The MINDS’ enrollment across all programs was 464 in the most recent academic year.

Student admission at MINDS is very competitive and based on merit. Criteria for admission to BDS programs are that the candidate has to qualify the National Eligibility cum entrance test (NEET-UG) and pass in Physics, Chemistry and Biology with at least 50 scores in the 12th standard. The selection criterion is centralized admission committee CENTAC merit list based on the candidate’s NEET UG rank. The basic eligibility criteria for admission in MDS programs include BDS degree from a DCI recognized college with one year compulsory rotating internship and clearing NEET MDS examination. 

The selection into postgraduate courses is achieved through a performance index given by the NEET-MDS score. MINDS also provide scholarship students, there were 7 undergraduate and 4 postgraduate students were reimbursed for the 2022 study year. The ethusiasm for quality education and all rounded dental training still pulls students from all corners of the country to the institute.