Dental schools total: Japan, 2025

Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated 2026-11-09 · Data as of 2025-12-01

Japan had 29 dental schools in 2025, according to MEXT survey of dental faculties. Basis: other.

Comparability B Confidence medium

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MEXT (Higher Education Bureau, Medical Education Division). (2026). Dental schools total: Japan, as of 2025-12-01 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/jp/dental-schools-total/2025/

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Record

Value: 29 schools
Unit: schools
As of: 2025-12-01
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Revision: 1
Confidence: medium
Method: derived
Basis: other
Scope: other
Comparability: Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
Status: Latest record for this market and metric

Source quote

歯学部歯学科の入学定員充足率（３か年（R５-７）平均） ※ 歯学部の修学状況等の調査結果（医学教育課調べ）。国立大学公立大学私立大学

English: Enrolment fill rate of dental school (DDS course) programmes, 3-year average FY2023-25; MEXT survey of dental faculties; national / public / private universities.

Locator: chart p.1 (per-faculty labels)

Local definition

Faculties of dentistry (6-year dental course) surveyed by MEXT

Source

MEXT (Higher Education Bureau, Medical Education Division): MEXT survey of dental faculties: enrolment fill rate and competition (FY2023-25 average). Registry entry: mext-dental-enrolment-2025.

Notes

Derived by counting distinct faculty labels in the MEXT chart: national 11 (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Institute of Science Tokyo, Niigata, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Tokushima, Kyushu, Nagasaki, Kagoshima), public 1 (Kyushu Dental), private 17 (incl. Nihon University Tokyo and Matsudo faculties and Nippon Dental University Tokyo and Niigata as separate faculties). No single sentence states "29" in the fetched MEXT chart.

Metric definition

Number of dental schools / faculties granting a first dental degree (DDS/DMD/BDS equivalent) All markets for this metric.

History

Current records for Dental schools total, Japan, newest first
Year	Value	Basis	As of	Comparability	Source	Series break
2025	29 schools	other	2025-12-01	Comparability B	MEXT survey of dental faculties: enrolment fill rate and competition (FY2023-25 average)

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