Government Dental College And Hospital, Ahmedabad

Government Dental College and Hospital, Ahmedabad sits on the Civil Hospital campus at Asarwa and shares the government dental block of Gujarat's medical admission committee with a single other college, at Jamnagar. Gujarat's 2026 round one gave the last open government BDS seat here to all India NEET-UG rank 1,02,415, further up the merit list than any other college in the state's dental allotment. A government quota BDS student there paid Rs 20,000 in yearly tuition on the committee's latest public fee sheet.

Gujarat's admission committee lists the college under code AD at Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380016, first among the state's BDS institutes, on its list of BDS institutes. The hospital that owns that campus names the dental college among its educational institutions and repeats the college's own account of itself, a 1963 foundation and BDS, MDS and PhD teaching, on the Civil Hospital Ahmedabad website.

Its Dean's welcome note on the college homepage repeats that 1963 start and a daily OPD of more than 400 patients drawn from Gujarat and neighbouring states. The self-study report the college sent to NAAC names Gujarat University as the affiliating university, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Gujarat and the Dental Council of India as its other authorities, and UGC recognition under sections 2(f) and 12B, in the NAAC self-study report.

NIRF lists it simply as "Government Dental College" under IR-N-C-5910 in its 2025 dental table, and MCC's MDS matrix misspells it "Governemnt Dental College and Hospital, Ahmedabad" in the 2026 AIQ MDS matrix.

Three degrees are taught at the college. The courses page describes the BDS as 4 years of training and 1 year of compulsory rotatory internship, the MDS as 3 years, and the PhD as a Gujarat University programme whose admissions the university runs itself. The college's overview page adds that it is an IGNOU-recognised centre for a one-year certificate course in endodontics and implantology.

BDS Fee

Tuition on a state government quota BDS seat here was Rs 20,000 a year on ACPUGMEC's intake and fee sheet for the 2025 admissions, which adds Rs 1,200 for hostel, Rs 150 in university fees and Rs 1,200 for examinations, and shows no management or NRI fee because the college has no such seats, per the dental intake and fees list.

An all India quota entrant pays the college directly. Its checklist for AIQ BDS reporting tells a candidate who wants to freeze the seat to bring a demand draft drawn on the Dean, payable at Ahmedabad, per the AIQ BDS reporting checklist. The state committee's fee details for the current session sit behind a candidate login rather than in a public sheet.

MDS Fee

On ACPPGMEC's 2024-25 dental fee sheet, the government quota tuition at this college reads 0.2 lakh a year in every one of the nine subjects, with no management or NRI column, according to the MDS tuition and other fees sheet. The college's AIQ MDS reporting checklist asks for a demand draft to the Dean to freeze a seat, along with current-year DCI registration and a BDS attempt certificate.

Both degrees go through NEET, and the seat a candidate can compete for depends on where their school years were spent. Gujarat's state quota is allotted by ACPUGMEC for BDS and ACPPGMEC for MDS, and the all India quota by MCC; the college's courses page points state quota applicants to medadmgujarat.ncode.in and AIQ applicants to MCC.

BDS

ACPUGMEC's document list for 2026-27 requires Standard 10 and Standard 12 to have been passed from a school located within Gujarat, with an exception for candidates who took admission to Standard 10 outside the state before 23rd June, 2017, plus further relaxations the same list of documents for MBBS and BDS admission sets out for groups such as children of defence personnel and of government employees posted to Gujarat, Navodaya students and Gujarat-board students from Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Anyone who fits none of these competes only for MCC's seats at this college.

That route opened late in 2026. MCC's round one NEET-UG seat matrix carries Jamnagar's government dental college under code 200139 but no row for Ahmedabad. The college appears as GOVT. DENTAL COLLEGE & HOSP,AHMEDABAD, NEW CIVIL HOSPITAL CAMPUS, ASARWA under code 200140 only when MCC published its newly added round two seats, so AIQ candidates first had these seats to choose in round two.

MDS

ACPPGMEC's eligibility note for 2026-27 opens the state MDS quota to graduates of a BDS from a university in Gujarat, and to graduates from elsewhere only if they passed Standard 12 with the B or AB group from a school located in Gujarat and were born in or are domiciled in the state, per the MDS eligibility criteria for 2026-27. Internship had to be complete by 31/05/2026. Part of the state share here is institutional quota, which on the round one admitted list went to candidates carrying a Gujarat University merit tag.

The state quota figures below come from Gujarat's own allotment lists, where every AD allotment carries a NEET-UG rank beside a state merit number and, for reserved seats, a category merit number.

BDS, State Quota Round One, 2026

The college's open seats closed at general merit 3159, ahead of Jamnagar at 3989 and of every self-financed dental college, which starts at Siddhpur's 6477 on the last merit table. The top open allotment at 29,161 was an outlier; the second came at 43,458 and the rest bunched between 75,331 and 1,02,415 on the allotment list.

Many of those seats did not hold. The committee's round one non-reported list names 15 candidates allotted here who never reported, among them the holder of the last open seat at rank 1,02,415, and its cancelled candidate list adds one SEBC seat. Later rounds are likely to reach beyond the ranks in the table.

BDS, MCC All India Quota Round Two, 2026

The all India seats were taken much higher up the NEET-UG list than the state seats. MCC's round two final result allots 17 of the 18, leaving the SC disability seat empty. Every open, OBC and EWS seat there went to a candidate ranked ahead of all but the first of the state's open allottees in the table above, and the single ST seat to a candidate ranked ahead of every state ST allottee; the two SC seats landed inside the state's SC range.

Eight of the 17 upgraded here from a BDS seat they had joined in round one, four of them from Jamnagar's government dental college, on the same round two result.

BDS Closing Ranks After All Rounds, 2025 and 2024

Read the rank column, not the score: the open seat closed at a score of 566 in 2024 and 460 in 2025, at the nearby ranks of 1,16,788 and 1,05,759. The 2025 SC closure at rank 5,43,385 is more than double the 2024 figure on those two closure sheets, so a reserved-category candidate should read more than one year.

MDS in 2026

MCC allotted 18 of the 19 AIQ MDS seats on its matrix for this college in round one. The strongest rank placed here was 22, in prosthodontics, according to the MCC MDS round one allotment.

Gujarat's first and second ranked MDS candidates both chose this college, the first for a government quota seat in prosthodontics and the second for oral surgery, on the state's admitted list. Six government quota seats stayed empty after round one, three in conservative dentistry, two in oral pathology and one in public health dentistry, on the committee's non-converted vacancy list.

A year earlier, open government quota MDS seats here closed at NEET-MDS rank 146 in prosthodontics, 192 in conservative dentistry, 202 in oral surgery, 323 in orthodontics, 834 in public health dentistry and 1231 in oral pathology, per ACPPGMEC's 2025 MDS last rank sheet.

Ahmedabad's graduate outcome counts come from its NIRF returns. The college's student support and progression page adds scanned evidence of former students moving on, including NEET-MDS score cards and a forensic odontology fee receipt from National Forensic Sciences University, but it posts no employer list and no totals of its own.

The 2023-24 batch was the first drawn from an entering class of 125, and 110 of them finished on time, per the 2025 data. Rs 75,412 and Rs 53,045, the medians entered for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 leavers in the 2023 data, are around a tenth of the Rs 6,67,200 that follows, and nothing in the return accounts for that jump. Higher study, meanwhile, dropped from 54 graduates to 4.

Postgraduate pay jumps in step, Rs 92,354 for 2020-21 leavers and Rs 12,00,300 for 2021-22, with nearly every MDS graduate entered as placed across all five rows. One batch earning thirteen times its predecessor is not believable; a change in what the college entered as salary fits these returns better.

ACPUGMEC's 2026-27 dental matrix gives the college an intake of 125, of which 18 are surrendered to the all India quota and 107 are government quota seats, with no management or NRI seats, per the dental seat matrix 2026-27.

Inside the 107, the committee's disability matrix reserves 6 for candidates with benchmark disabilities: 2 open, 2 SEBC, 1 SC and 1 ST. MCC's 18 split as 7 open, 5 OBC, 2 EWS, 2 SC, 1 SC disability seat and 1 ST on its round two list. A year earlier the split had been 19 AIQ and 106 state seats, per the previous intake sheet.

MDS Seats by Subject

Counselling documents for 2026 put 39 MDS seats at this college: 20 on ACPPGMEC's tentative round one matrix and 19 on MCC's AIQ matrix.

The college's own figure is lower. Its courses page shows one seat fewer than the counselling lists in each of prosthodontics, oral pathology and orthodontics. ACPPGMEC's 2024-25 MDS seat list showed 39 sanctioned and 33 offered, 17 to the state and 16 to AIQ.

Entry IR-N-C-5910 is absent from the 2021 table, then carries a rank in every dental edition from 2022, and in the 2024 and 2025 tables it is the only ranked dental college from Gujarat.

The college scored more in 2025 than in 2024, 54.13 against 51.60, and still slipped three places to 37th, so its position depends on the rest of the field as much as on its own numbers. Research never passed 15 in any of the four tables. Outside grants barely register beside Rs 31,04,40,465 spent on salaries in 2023-24: 12 sponsored projects raised Rs 1,94,500 that year, where 36 had raised Rs 7,41,000 the year before, per the 2025 NIRF data.

Nothing after the 2023 edition appears among the NIRF entries on the college's awards page. It also lists a 4 star rating under the Gujarat State Institutional Ratings Framework, awarded on 28th Feb 2019 by the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat.

The self-study report describes a dental specialty hospital with its own male and female general wards, an operation theatre complex for major and minor surgery, and special clinics for geriatric, esthetic, implant, tobacco cessation and special health care needs patients. The awards page dates the G+7 college and hospital building to its inauguration on 4th March, 2019, and records a 60-bed mucormycosis ward in 2021.

Training also runs into the Civil Hospital wards next door. The self-study report says third-year BDS students learn general medicine and surgery in those wards, that postgraduates in oral surgery, oral medicine and oral pathology are posted to other departments of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, and that the campus also holds a kidney hospital and a cancer institute, while the MOUs page lists agreements with Civil hospital Ahmedabad in 2019 and 2021, with IKDRC and U N Mehta Cardiology in 2016 and 2021, and with the Gujarat Cancer Research Institute in 2020.

The OPD and IPD page posts 14072 outpatients and 128 inpatients for April 2026, while NIRF returns give an average OPD attendance of 260 for 2021, 280 for 2022 and 677 for 2023 in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 data. Outreach runs through community and primary health centres across the state, listed with geotagged photographs from Gandhinagar, Baroda, Surat, Mehsana, Junagadh and Valsad among others in the college's AQAR annexure.

The Civil Hospital's page on the college counts 4 lecture halls, each seating 100 students. The college spent Rs 1,06,845 on its library in 2021-22, then Rs 31,19,675 and Rs 34,22,690 in the two years after, per the 2025 NIRF data.

Hostel

Rooms are on campus: the self-study report describes separate blocks for UG and PG men, UG women and PG women, with two beds to a room, inside the same campus. The college's hostel page adds CCTV on every floor, an in-out register kept by the guard, and a team of senior female faculty overseeing the women's UG and PG hostels. The only hostel charge on record is the Rs 1,200 a year on ACPUGMEC's fee sheet.

The Dean, Dr Rupal J. Shah, took charge in May 2024 and is also Additional Director-in-charge (Dental) for the state; she took her BDS in 1986 and MDS in 1990 at this college and has headed prosthodontics since 2006, per her profile. She is not unusual in having trained here: the alumni page counts 42 alumni working as faculty.

The college entered 91 faculty members in its 2025 NIRF data, against 104 a year earlier in the 2024 data. Department pages give a feel for the bench beneath those totals: pedodontics lists a professor, an assistant professor and 5 tutors for 3 PG seats a year on its department page, and conservative dentistry lists 3 professors, 2 assistant professors and 8 lecturers on the overview page, which still gives that department 4 PG seats a year where the courses page says 6.

Doctoral work is almost all part-time. The 2025 NIRF data counts 54 part-time PhD scholars and no full-time ones, with 8 part-time graduations in 2023-24 after 3 and 1 in the two years before, plus a single full-time graduate in 2021-22; the college's courses page leaves PhD eligibility and admission to Gujarat University.

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