Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, Coorg

Established in 1999 Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences (CIDS) is a dental college located at Virajpet, Coorg District, Karnatak. It is affiliated college located in a 30 acre campus and committed to deliver quality dental education and health care. NAAC accreditation and DCI approval make CIDS maintain the high quality educational standard.

CIDS has a total enrolment of 266 students and 102 strong members of faculties, it provides 1 under graduate and 9 post graduate dental programme. In particular, 57% of students among new entrants in the institute are from other states which also promotes diverse culture of learning.

CIDS has an unrelenting desire to ensure that only the best facilities are offered in order to enhance the students experience and achievements. The campus has spacious and well-endowed laboratories, a rich library, and computerized laboratory as the means of facilitating a hi-tech dental research as well as education.

They have common facilities like well furnished and ample hostels for boys and girls to provide accommodation facility to the students. The institute also has a health center with first aid facilities, indoors as well as outdoors playing facilities to keep the students fit. An auditorium is designed for academic programs and seminars, likewise a cafeteria provides a place or a venue for students to take a break.

That is why, the Wi-Fi, spread across the campus helps student to remain connected and have an access to the Internet resources that will contribute to their studies. The institute offers 10 courses in total, 5 of them at the undergraduate level and 5 at postgraduate level and all the course offered are full time only.

The BDS programme intake is at 40 students per year, while the different MDS courses take between 3 to 6 students each year. As for the student population, the university had 176 of undergraduate’s and 90 postgraduate students enrolled in dental school in the academic year 2022.

The institute has embraced gender diversity as 81% of the student enrolled in undergraduate, while 64% of the students in the postgraduate classes are females. The admission process at CIDS is highly competitive based on the merit, and there is little or no flexibility given to students; the most important criterion considered during admission is performance on national level entrance examination.

The BDS program gave admission according to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test ( NEET ) conducted by the National Board of Examinations. The Common Application is normally launched in January or February with adverts placed in most popular dailies. Concerning the postgraduate MDS courses, the admissions are given based on the NEET-MDS examination.

Most dental colleges prefer the NEET-MDS application window that is from September to October with examinations from November to December. This formulated process of admitting students to CIDS guarantees the institution of admitting some of the brightest dental aspiration across the nation.

Unfortunately, there is no specific information on scholarships but the institute proves that it is focused on education delivering its complex programs and offering the best infrastructures. CIDS has trained many successful generations of graduates who have continued to impact the course of dentistry despite the lack of specific information detailing their impacts.