Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondicherry

Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute is a post graduate dental institute, was established in the year 1990 in the union territory of Puducherry in India. This government affiliated institute recognised by the Dental Council of India (DCI) is having the faculties of BDS and MDS courses. Set in an 11. 17 acre space it admits 232 students in total and has 70 members of faculty.

Currently, MGPGI provides the students 8 courses in 2 levels of the degree programme focusing on several fields of dentistry. Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute has made and offer various services for the comfort of students in their academic and everyday lives. Facilities include separate hostels for the boy’s and girl’s, to provide the best accommodation to students.

First aid is well provided through a health centre with adequate facility to handle students’ emergencies. The star attraction is a centrally air-conditioned library at MGPGI with more than 9,180 books and 950 back volumes of journal in the field of dentistry, medicine, and health sciences. The library is funded an annual sum of Rs. 40 lakhs of which it uses to subscribe to 66 foreign journals and 19 Indian journals.

On recreational and health activities, the institute provides sports amenities. There is an up-to-date information technology facility for learning to foster the deployment of advanced learning techniques. There is also a cafeteria to accommodate those people in need of special place for rest and leisure conversation with other people.

MGPGI Pondicherry is offering 8 courses in total, in which some of them are undergraduate and some of them are postgraduate. The largest course for students after fours years secondary education is the BDS , which is an undergraduate course running for 5 academic years. in postgraduate level, the institute offer various Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) programmes which are of 3years’ duration.

Some of the specialised MDS courses are prosthodontics, oral pathology and microbiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, periodontics, and conservative dentistry and endodontics and many more. The general student capacity for the courses offered by the institute is 232 and total 110 is for the BDS programme and the rest is for the MDS specialisations.

The admission procedure of the MGPGI Pondicherry is merit-based and is very rigid in its process. Enrolment in the BDS programme is through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test [NEET] for dental and medical courses aptly named for across the country. Likewise for the MDS programmes, the candidates need to pass their National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for MDS (NEET MDS).

They help institute filter out students who are qualified for admission to the institute from a huge crowd. It is a multicultural institute as proved by the students enrolled in the institute. According to the most up to date info 74 % of the students are female and 26% male students are part of the undergraduate programme, 57 % of the students are female while 43% are male students for the postgraduate programmes.

A high percentage of students attends MGPGI with 89% of students having sourced their education within the state while the remaining 11% sourced theirs from other states which makes the learning environment diverse. Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences Pondicherry ranked 23rd in the dental category by NIRF ranking 2025.

MGPGI Pondicherry NIRF Ranking Comparison Year NIRF Ranking 2025 23 2024 35 MGPGI Pondicherry Location Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Government of Puducherry Institution is located in Gorimedu, Pondicherry.