For-Profit Dental schools?

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I know medicine and pharmacy fields have for profit schools. Why not dentistry? I'm sure with the amount of money students are willing to pay for a dental degree they would find people to attend their schools. Thoughts?

 

[cacajuate]

What do you call the private schools we already have then?

 

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What do you call the private schools we already have then?

They are classified as private non-profit institutions.

 

[frozenicecreamDMD]

some medical schools are for profits? are these US MD schools? I just think they are private non profit that are confused as for profit.

I think it takes like 10 years of so to return the investment in opening one dental school. and we arent even far away from the massive close down of dental schools (>5 private dental school with big class sizes closed about 20-30 years ago) so these probably scare the investors.

Pharmacy on the other hand, what do you have for facility? lecture rooms, a couple compounding labs, then you send your students off for free labor in the big chains and pay the big chains some money that is much less compared to what the students paid the school.

it is easy to generate profit in law too due to the small operating cost and look at how law is now.

one interviewer told me it takes a massive fortune to run a vet school and it takes a slightly less massive fortune to run a dental school with much headache, anxiety, and hard work. Can you believe that if any dental school is going into deficit in spending for just 1 year, there is a possibility of closing down that dental school. This just shows how large the operating cost (and dental school's cost of attendance) is

it was estimated that if the government and state took no action to help dental schools 30 years ago, it was likely that more than 10 dental schools (most of which are private) would have closed down.

there were a few schools with above 200 student class size for dental before and look at what we have now? (the larger end i see is 150 students with the exception being NYU of 267)

 

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some medical schools are for profits? are these US MD schools? I just think they are private non profit that are confused as for profit.

I think it takes like 10 years of so to return the investment in opening one dental school. and we arent even far away from the massive close down of dental schools (>5 private dental school with big class sizes closed about 20-30 years ago) so these probably scare the investors.

Pharmacy on the other hand, what do you have for facility? lecture rooms, a couple compounding labs, then you send your students off for free labor in the big chains and pay the big chains some money that is much less compared to what the students paid the school.

it is easy to generate profit in law too due to the small operating cost and look at how law is now.

one interviewer told me it takes a massive fortune to run a vet school and it takes a slightly less massive fortune to run a dental school with much headache, anxiety, and hard work. Can you believe that if any dental school is going into deficit in spending for just 1 year, there is a possibility of closing down that dental school. This just shows how large the operating cost (and dental school's cost of attendance) is

it was estimated that if the government and state took no action to help dental schools 30 years ago, it was likely that more than 10 dental schools (most of which are private) would have closed down.

there were a few schools with above 200 student class size for dental before and look at what we have now? (the larger end i see is 150 students with the exception being NYU of 267)

The medical schools I was thinking about were the Caribbean ones. Their pre-clinical school isn't located in the states but students do their MS3 and MS4 years in the states.

That makes sense. I knew dental schools had high operating costs. I thought that was offset by the higher tuition they charge their students.
I guess that's a good thing though at least it keeps things in check.

 

[cacajuate]

They are classified as private non-profit institutions.

Being labeled as such doesn't mean they don't operate as for profit schools.