Dentistry, State Examination
Dentistry deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dental, oral and jaw diseases, oral rehabilitation with dentures and the regulation of dental and jaw anomalies. The program is divided into a preclinical and a clinical study, each lasting 5 semesters. The dentist is trained scientifically and practically first in the phantom (simulation units) and in the last four semesters on the patient. A special focus of the training is the teaching and learning program "The Early Patient Contact".
Programme facts
| Degree | State Examination |
|---|---|
| Duration | 10 semesters |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €135 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
The main idea behind the study of dentistry at the University of Greifswald is combined with the research and teaching projects of Community Dentistry and Medicine. Oral health and disease are linked in many ways to general health issues of health and disease - but social and socio-psychological aspects of healthy and ill people also play a crucial role.
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The students of dentistry should be given a deeper understanding of health and illness right from the beginning and get to know frequent illnesses and the sick people early within the framework of the teaching program "The Early Patient Contact". In this way, the students are prepared step by step for the clinical tasks on the patient. The early contact with sick and needy people in the region means in practice that not only the tooth or the oral cavity, but the ill person and the diverse conditions of health and illness in the center of study. Prerequisite is a very close link with the contents of medical studies. Wherever possible, students of dentistry will be taught together with the medical profession. A dental treatment unit has been set up in the "comprehensible" teaching and learning center.
What you study
The standard duration of study is ten semesters. The study is divided into a preclinical and a clinical part of five each Semesters. Exam sections are:
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), international students | €0 |
|---|---|
| Semester contribution | €135 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
|---|---|
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application directly to the university until 15.07Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.