Any opinions on why there isn't a mention of dental school rankings in the graduate school issue? An expanded Health ranking is available; http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/hea/heaindex_brief.php , but I can't seem to find anything pertaining to dental education.
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Last one was around 1993 and there will never be another dental school ranking.
All the schools are ADA acredited so they are all good...so all are #1
All the schools are ADA acredited so they are all good...so all are #1
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Gavin, this is another one for your FAQ.
It's already in there 🙂
Dental schools are not ranked by national services as are medical schools and other professional programs. The accreditation process for dental schools is a stringent one, and therefore all US dental schools that are accredited are fully capable of providing students with an excellent education.
There are multiple factors in choosing the ?best? dental school, and the weight of these factors varies from person to person. It is therefore in the best interest of the profession to not participate in ranking programs but rather encourage applicants and interested individuals to research each school based on their own criterion. Research may be important to one applicant, while climate and location might be important to another. National Board Dental Exam scores might be important to yet another applicant, while still another might weigh most heavily the costs associated with tuition and fees.
There are multiple factors in choosing the ?best? dental school, and the weight of these factors varies from person to person. It is therefore in the best interest of the profession to not participate in ranking programs but rather encourage applicants and interested individuals to research each school based on their own criterion. Research may be important to one applicant, while climate and location might be important to another. National Board Dental Exam scores might be important to yet another applicant, while still another might weigh most heavily the costs associated with tuition and fees.
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So Gavin, do you basically copy-paste these responses or do you actually type them?
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Ranking amongst US dental schools with NBDE Part 1 performance is a BEHIND THE SCENE type of thing. It is not published for dental applicants to see or use as a school selector tool.
Often, US dental schools who are in the top ten according to their NBDE Part 1 performance, they will advertise it on their schools' official website to attract dental applicants. You will not find a ranking information by NBDE Part 1 scores available to you as a pre-dental student.
As a current dental student, you may visit your Office of Academic Affairs and talk to the Academic Dean to obtain where your dental school is currently ranked amongst others.
Often, US dental schools who are in the top ten according to their NBDE Part 1 performance, they will advertise it on their schools' official website to attract dental applicants. You will not find a ranking information by NBDE Part 1 scores available to you as a pre-dental student.
As a current dental student, you may visit your Office of Academic Affairs and talk to the Academic Dean to obtain where your dental school is currently ranked amongst others.
Well that's my own response, but I DID copy/paste it from the place where I originally wrote it.
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yeah sorry, that's what I meant: if you copy paste from your previous posts.
Yeah, I rarely do that, but sometimes I do.
Guess it depends on my mood and my opinion on any given day! 😀
Guess it depends on my mood and my opinion on any given day! 😀
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This statement doesn't make any sense to me
Are you saying that accreditation process for medical schools is less stringent?
It may be true that all accredited dental schools may give you an excellent education but how would that keep some "national service" from ranking them? That fact that US News and World report hasn't put out a ranking in 10 years for dental school I can assure you has nothing to do with them thinking that all dental schools are equal and they give the same degree of excellence in education.
I thought it was because the ADA got angry at US News for not ranking them the way the ADA would have ranked them. I thought I read this somewhere.
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US News probably doesn't think all dental schools are equal and are itching to put out yet another list of rankings with all the other ranking bs they put out. However, the deans of the dental schools got together and decided that the US News ranking is absolutely worthless in trying to compare dental schools. It's something the dental schools/profession stuck together for to do away with the US News rankings.
I think it was one of the smartest moves on the part of dental education to stand up to US News. Who cares what US News thinks? They probably don't even have any dentists on staff over there - makes sense seeing as they are a news magazine having very little to do with healthcare. Most of the rankings were based on meaningless stats that anyone on this board can tell you have nothing to do with patient care and producing knowledgeable clinicians.
Imagine if those rankings still existed. We'd be getting pre-dent questions all the time along the lines of "I really liked Case but should I attend Minnesota? B/c according to US News, Minnesota is ranked #3 and Case is ranked #30" There is enough pre-dent uncertainty to begin with. Those stupid rankings would just make uninformed pre-dents make choices based on something absolutely meaningless. Take a look over at the pre-allo board - those students are always obsessing over attending a "lower ranked Tier 1 med school" over a "higher ranked Tier 2 med school." Ridiculous.
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