Vananchal Dental College and Hospital, Garhwa

Vananchal Dental College & Hospital, Garhwa, was established in the year 2007 and is one of the well-known dental colleges located in the state of Jharkhand in India. This is a co-educational institution which is accredited by the Dental Council of India, and it provides different dental courses at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate levels.

The college sprawled over 100 acres annual student enrolment of 122 and a faculty of 112. The institute is affiliated with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), which is a testing and certification body that qualifies educational institutions in the country in the field of dentistry.

Forced 8 courses of 2 degree levels, Vananchal Dental College and Hospital offers various courses in dental disciplines as well that cater to the education needs for the dental stream professions. Vananchal Dental College & Hospital amenities are also up to world standards in order to meet the demands of students’ education and development.

The campus provides spacious and well-furnished boys' and girls' hostels with accommodation facilities like triple- and double-bedded rooms. These hostels include mess and indoor amenities that include an indoor court for badminton or table tennis and chess, among others, to provide the inhabitants with a balanced life.

The college library is an information centre where all printed and electronic reading materials are available as per the norms laid down by the DCI. It also connects the users to the World Wide Web, offers other forms of internet information and has a student/faculty reading room.

ITHIS College boasts of an office network administration, a relatively developed network of administrative offices, and an advanced audiovisual facility in large classrooms. Also on the same campus, the college has sports facilities, a canteen, a health centre with first aid and transport facilities for students and staff.

About half of the total courses that are taught at Vananchal Dental College and Hospital are offered at the postgraduate level, and the other half are offered at the undergraduate level. The flagship programme of the institute is the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), for which the institute has an approved strength of one hundred students.

At postgraduate level, this college offers several specialisations of Master of Dental Surgery (MDS), each of which takes three years to complete.

These specialised programmes are orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics, pedodontics and preventive dentistry, prosthodontics and crown and bridge, periodontology, Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology , Oral Medicine. The capacity approved for postgraduate courses is twenty-two seats for all the fields of specialisation.

Degree Name Total Number of Seats No of Specialisations BDS 100 1 MDS 16 7 Consequently, entry into Vananchal Dental College and Hospital is generally done after attempting national-level entrance tests. For the BDS programme the selection criteria depend on the score obtained out of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) .

Likewise, for MDS programme admissions are through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for MDS, commonly known as NEET MDS. These examinations afford all well-meaning candidates an equal opportunity to compete for admission into dental schools. College follows the admission schedule and procedures as follows the timeliness of respective examination boards.

Regarding the specifics of the scholarship, one has trouble finding information, but surely such an institute must provide and have different kinds of financial aid for students in need.