Pakistan has 17 public-sector dental colleges recognised by the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) for the BDS programme. Most run as a dental section attached to an established public medical college rather than a fully standalone campus — that's PMDC's own classification, not a downgrade in status.
On fees: like their medical counterparts, public dental colleges are government-subsidised and charge nominal tuition — typically in the same Rs 20,000–100,000/year range as public medical colleges, since most are administered by the same institution and provincial fee schedule. No individual public dental college publishes a separate BDS fee schedule online distinct from the parent medical college; confirm the exact current-year figure with the college's admission office.
Balochistan (1)
- Dental Section, Bolan Medical College — Quetta — 54 seats
KPK (5)
- Khyber College of Dentistry — Peshawar — 100 seats
- KMU Institute of Dental Sciences (KIDS) — Kohat — 59 seats
- Bacha Khan Dental College — Mardan — 55 seats
- Dental College, Ayub Medical College — Abbottabad — 55 seats
- Saidu College of Dentistry — Swat — 50 seats
Punjab (5)
- de'Montmorency College of Dentistry — Lahore — 110 seats
- Institute of Dentistry, Nishtar Medical College — Multan — 65 seats
- Dental Section, Punjab Medical College — Faisalabad — 65 seats
- Dental Section, Army Medical College — Rawalpindi — 54 seats
- School of Dentistry, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University — Islamabad — 50 seats
Sindh (6)
- Dental Department, Karachi Medical & Dental College — Karachi — 100 seats
- Dr. Ishratul Ebad Institute of Oral Health Sciences — Karachi — 100 seats
- Faculty of Dentistry, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences — Jamshoro — 100 seats
- Sindh Institute of Oral Health Sciences (JSMU) — Karachi — 50 seats
- Dental College, Dow International Medical College — Karachi — 50 seats
- Bibi Aseefa Dental College — Larkana — 50 seats
Choosing between public dental colleges
Sindh has the largest public dental capacity of any province — six colleges, with three offering 100 seats each. If you're weighing a public dental seat against a private one, check the private list below and compare against your MDCAT aggregate on our aggregate calculator.
Source: Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (pmdc.pk/Colleges/PublicDentalColleges), verified 2026-07-14. Seat figures are PMDC's sanctioned allocations; confirm the current cycle's numbers on the official site before applying.