Sri Rajiv Gandhi College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Bangalore

Sri Rajiv Gandhi College of Dental Sciences and Hospital Bangalore, founded in the year 1991, is a dental college situated at Cholanagar, R. T. Nagar Post, Bangalore. This affiliated college has recognition in NAAC and permission from the Dental Council of India (DCI). With its ten-acre campus, a wide array of dental programmes available.

The college offers a conducive environment for learning; the college enrolments are 407 students, while faculty members are 149. The institute provides 9 courses in 2 different degree levels and is focused on different fields of dentistry. The student body is diverse, with a notable gender ratio of 1:4 in favour of female students, 81% being female students.

It has all the best apparatus, which can cater for students’ needs to enable them to achieve their goals in the college. Girls and boys have the privilege of living in hostel facilities available within school compounds, complete with two hostels each capable of accommodating 300 students.

These hostels provide different groups of rooms, three-share, twin-share, and single-share accommodations, and other facilities are a television lounge, indoor games, a yoga room, a meditation hall, etc. Medical facility: Health center with first aid Convenient: Well-equipped library Sports facility: Basketball, badminton, volleyball courts.

Football, cricket and athletic facilities off college premises are also available and the transport facilities of the college are provided for these purposes. Computerised facilities enjoyed by the college are one computerised lab with 30 updated systems, an Internet connection, and printing options.

An integrated wireless system also implies that all departments of the university, hostels, and recreational areas are well connected. Other facilities are canteen, seminar hall, and college bus facility for daily commute to other places. It provides diversified dental curricula and therapeutic services at Sri Rajiv Gandhi College of Dental Sciences and Hospital.

One undergraduate programme namely BDS, and 8 postgraduate programmes namely MDS programmes in different specialities, are offered by the institute. The BDS programme has 100 seats, and each of the MDS programmes has 3 seats.

The MDS specialisations are Oral Medicine and Radiology , Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics Crown and Bridge , Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry , Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Periodontology, Oral Pathology, and Microbiology . There are no part-time programmes at all; all courses are designed to provide students with a full-time dental education.

Corse Name Total Number of Seats No of Specialisation Total Fees BDS 100 1 Rs 2,125,000 MDS Oral Medicine and Radiology 3 1 - MDS Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 3 1 - MDS Prosthodontics Crown and Bridge 3 1 Rs 1,862,028 MDS Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics 3 1 Rs 1,117,728 The entry requirements of Sri Rajiv Gandhi College of Dental Sciences and Hospital are competitive, and they are educated by various authorities.

For the BDS programme, the candidate must have passed the National Eligibility and Entrance Test ( NEET ) conducted by CBSE and must have secured the prescribed percentage as decided by the Dental Council of India. The application for NEET is usually launched in the CBSE web portal for the relevant calendar year for the course.

MDS programmes’ admission criteria involve the scores obtained in the NEET-PG exam of the concerned year. The merit is computed based on percentile score according to DCI standards. NEET-MDS entrance test scores of the candidates are taken into consideration, followed by the first come, first served system approved by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA).

The college accepts NEET for undergraduate education and NEET MDS for postgraduate education. However, there is no special information about scholarships available, but the institute gives full attention based on education and career.