Pakistan has 44 private-sector dental colleges recognised by the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) for the BDS programme — more than double the public dental capacity. Many are a dedicated dental college attached to an existing private medical college, which PMDC lists as a separate institution.
A note on how these fees were sourced: as with our private medical colleges list, every figure marked (official) below comes directly from that college's own fee-structure page or PDF. Third-party fee-comparison sites circulate numbers that don't always match what a college currently publishes, so we're not using those as a source here — where we couldn't confirm a figure on the college's own domain, it's marked fee not confirmed on official site rather than filled in with a compiled estimate.
KPK (6)
- Rehman College of Dentistry — Peshawar — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Sardar Begum Dental College — Peshawar — 75 seats — Rs 1,200,000/year — (official)
- Peshawar Dental College — Peshawar — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Abbottabad International Medical College — Abbottabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Women Medical College — Abbottabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Frontier Medical College — Abbottabad — 50 seats (admissions status noted by PMDC — verify current intake) — fee not confirmed on official site
Punjab (26)
- Islamic International Dental College — Islamabad — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Foundation University College of Dentistry — Islamabad — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Islamabad Medical & Dental College — Islamabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- HBS Dental College — Islamabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Rawal Institute of Health Sciences — Islamabad — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Bashir College of Dentistry — Islamabad — 50 seats (admissions status noted by PMDC — verify current intake) — fee not confirmed on official site
- Margalla College of Dentistry — Rawalpindi — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Watim Dental College — Rawalpindi — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Akhtar Saeed Medical & Dental College — Lahore — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry — Lahore — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Lahore Medical & Dental College — Lahore — 75 seats — Rs 2,495,000/year — (official, lmdc.edu.pk, 2025–26 session)
- Dental College, University College of Medicine & Dentistry — Lahore — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Institute of Dentistry, CMH Lahore Medical College — Lahore — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Rashid Latif Dental College — Lahore — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Rahbar College of Dentistry — Lahore — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Avicenna Dental College — Lahore — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- College of Dentistry, Sharif Medical & Dental College — Lahore — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- College of Dentistry, Bakhtawar Amin Medical & Dental College — Multan — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Multan Medical & Dental College — Multan — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- CMH Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) Dental College — Multan — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, University Medical & Dental College — Faisalabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Faryal Dental College — Sheikhupura — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences — Taxila Cantt — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Islam Dental College — Sialkot — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Niazi Medical & Dental College — Sargodha — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Shahida Islam Dental College — Lodhran — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
Sindh (12)
None of the twelve Sindh private dental colleges have a fee figure we could confirm directly from their own official website.
- Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine — Karachi — 80 seats — fee not confirmed on official site (altamash.edu.pk hosts a fee-schedule PDF, but the figures in it weren't extractable in a reliable way — check directly)
- Fatima Jinnah Dental College — Karachi — 80 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Baqai Dental College — Karachi — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Liaquat College of Medicine & Dentistry — Karachi — 75 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Bhittai Dental & Medical College — Mirpurkhas — 80 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Bahria University Medical & Dental College — Karachi — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental College, Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences for Girls — Karachi — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Jinnah Medical & Dental College — Karachi — 50 seats — Rs 1,597,200 total programme fee (BDS, local students) — (official, jmc.edu.pk)
- Ziauddin Dental College — Karachi — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Isra Dental College — Hyderabad — 50 seats — fee not confirmed on official site
- Muhammad Dental College — Mirpurkhas — admissions status pending court order, check PMDC for current intake — fee not confirmed on official site
- Dental Section, Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry — Karachi — admissions status pending court order, check PMDC for current intake — fee not confirmed on official site
How to pick a private dental college
Because most private dental colleges sit at 50–80 seats and none publish a closing merit the way public colleges do, your realistic filter is city, total cost, and whether it's attached to a hospital with enough patient volume for clinical training — not merit percentile. Where we don't have a confirmed fee above, contact the college's admission office directly rather than relying on a third-party estimate — the handful of colleges we could confirm (Sardar Begum, Lahore Medical & Dental, Jinnah Medical & Dental) range from roughly Rs 1.2M to Rs 2.5M/year, so there's no single "typical" number to assume for an unconfirmed college. Cross-check against the public dental colleges list if you're still deciding between a free-merit seat and a paid one.
Sources: Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (pmdc.pk/Colleges/PrivateDentalColleges) for seat allocations, verified 2026-07-14. Fee figures marked (official) were extracted directly from that college's own fee-structure page or PDF. All other colleges' fee pages were image-based, PDF-locked, returned an access error, or weren't found — rather than substitute a third-party compiled number, we've marked those "fee not confirmed on official site." Confirm current numbers and litigation status directly with the college before applying.