Dentistry — RCSI · IB Pathways

Where: DublinIreland
Degree: BDS
Length: 5 years
Taught in: English
Starts: Autumn 2027
Apply by: 1 February 2027
Last cut-off: 6132026 · 35 places
EU/EEA fee: €3,490 a yearFree Fees, 2025/26

More facts

Degree: BDS
Length: 5 years
Taught in: English
Starts: Autumn 2027

Deadlines

5 November 2026, 12:00 Irish time

CAO application facility opens for 2027 entry

Details
Published twice: the last line of the CAO Timetable of Events reads "5th November 2026 - CAO application facility opens for 2027 applications", and the CAO Handbook 2027 gives "CAO online application facility opens on 5 November at 12:00 noon". Nothing can be submitted before midday.
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1 February 2027, 17:00 Irish time

Normal closing date - the one that matters

Hard deadline
Details
The last day to apply at the normal fee, and the last day to apply at all for restricted courses such as medicine. A late window, 5 March to 1 May at €65, takes other courses only, and an institution may refuse a late application.
CAO publishes this as "1st February (17:00) - Normal closing date for applications". Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. The fee at this point is 50 EUR. Restricted-entry courses - those with a test, interview, portfolio or audition, including undergraduate medicine - must be on your course choices list by now, with one narrow escape: the handbook allows them to be "added to your application using the facility to amend course choices (for a fee of 10) before 1 March at 5pm". They cannot be introduced during the free Change of Mind window in May and June, except where a restricted course shares the exact same assessment procedures as one you already listed. The CAO Handbook also advises applying online before this date and time if you need to sit HPAT or GAMSAT.
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1 July 2027, 17:00 Irish time

Change of Mind closes - your final order of preference

Hard deadline
Details
The last chance to change what you are applying for, five days before IB results. The list you hold on this date is the list that is scored.
CAO publishes this as "1st July (17:00) - Change of Mind closes". Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. This is the date the whole Irish system turns on, because offers follow your stated order of preference exactly and this is the last moment you can change it. It closes a few days before IB results are released in early July, so the order you submit is an order you choose without knowing your score. Decide it against your predicted grades and against last year’s points for each course, not against a result you do not have yet.
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All dates for this programme (3 more)

20 January 2027, 17:00 Irish time

Discounted application fee ends - 35 EUR becomes 50 EUR

Details
Applying after this costs more. Not a barrier, and a needless cost.
The discounted online fee ends at 17:00 (CAO Handbook 2027, Timetable of Events and Table 1.1). Missing it costs 15 EUR, not your place: you can still apply at the normal 50 EUR until 1 February. The fee ladder is in Table 1.1 of the CAO Handbook 2027 and is the part most often got wrong: early online (discounted) 35 EUR by 20 January, normal online 50 EUR by 1 February, late online 65 EUR by 1 May, Change of Mind nil. Amending your course choices between 5 February and 1 March costs a further 10 EUR. Application fees are non-refundable and CAO states that no extension to any closing date is allowed.
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5 May 2027, 12:00 Irish time*

Change of Mind opens - free, and unlimited

Details
Free, and it lets you rewrite the list entirely — which is why the 1 February deadline is less frightening than it looks. CAO Handbook 2027 gives 5 May at 12:00 as the "expected date".
CAO publishes this as "5th May (12:00) - Online Change of Mind facility becomes available (Free)". The CAO Handbook 2027 gives this day and time but marks it "(expected date)", so treat it as provisional. You may use it as many times as you like to introduce, remove or reorder courses, but each Change of Mind "cancels and supersedes all previous course choices in any category in which changes are made", so the list you leave behind is the list that is read. Restricted-entry courses cannot be introduced here.
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6 July 2027*

IB results released

Details
After Change of Mind has closed. An IB applicant straight from school competes in Round One, with Irish school leavers.
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* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Ireland

What it is

Five-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery with supervised patient contact from Year 1, a simulated dental learning environment and community-based clinical teaching in RCSI's Dental Education Centres.

What you need

Any IB EnglishEnglish A: HL 3 or SL 4. English B: 4 (HL 4 or SL 6 if your IB is not in English).
Any IB MathsMaths HL grade 4+ adds 25 bonus points.
Chemistry HLminimum 5
Biology or Physics HLminimum 5
Language ab initio SL, Any IB Danish or Another languageA second language; 3 HL at 5 and 3 SL at 4 overall.

Requirements in full

Every IB applicant at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

3 HL at 5 and 3 SL at 4, including English, Maths and a second language; most courses also a lab science. EU applicants apply through CAO and are ranked on IB points converted to CAO points.

Where it says so

Its entry requirements

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