Islamic International Dental College (Riphah)

Islamic International Dental College (IIDC) is a private dental college in Islamabad. It belongs to the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at Riphah International University. The college sits in its own building at 7th Avenue in Sector G-7/4 ¹.

The college started in 2001 as the dental section of Islamic International Medical College. It became an independent college in 2006 ¹. The fact sheet records the same start year of 2001.

Riphah awards the BDS degree. The course runs for four years and a one-year house job follows it ¹³. The college also runs MDS, MPhil and FCPS programmes in dentistry ².

The attached hospital is the Islamic International Dental Hospital at G-7/4, on the same site as the college ¹³. The fact sheet records 120 beds at the hospital.

The college site lists the principal, laboratories, student life and contact sections for students ². The PMDC register lists 75 seats for the college in Islamabad ⁴.

The fact sheet records the college as established in 2001 in Sector G-7/4, Islamabad, under Riphah International University.

The college opened in 2001 as the dental section of Islamic International Medical College with 50 admissions a year ³. It became an independent college later in 2006 ¹.

The first home was the Almizan Building on Peshawar Road in Rawalpindi. The college now works from its own building at 7th Avenue, G-7/4, Islamabad ³. The move placed the college beside its own dental hospital, so teaching and clinics share one site ¹.

The first BDS batch graduated in 2005, and the trust counts 16 graduated batches to date ³.

PMDC later accredited the college for 75 admissions a year ¹, and the PMDC register lists 75 seats for the college ⁴. The annual intake grew from the original 50 to the present 75 with that accreditation.

Prof. Dr. Ulfat Bashir serves as principal of the college ³. The trust behind the college also runs the Islamic International Dental Hospital ³.

The college describes its teaching as an integrated modular curriculum with problem-based clinical learning and early patient contact ¹.

The fact sheet records two closing aggregates for the BDS self-finance quota: 81.5% in 2024 and 84.6% in 2025.

The standard BDS aggregate is 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. The MDCAT paper itself moved from 210 marks to 200 marks and then to 180 marks over recent years. An aggregate is not the same as a raw score.

Riphah runs merit-based admission through its admissions office ⁶. Read the two recorded figures as the self-finance line, not the open-merit line, and expect each year to move. Riphah posts its merit lists on the admissions page, so the closing lines for each year sit there ⁶.

Islamic International Dental Hospital is the attached hospital. The college and the hospital share the 7th Avenue building in G-7/4 ¹³.

The fact sheet records 120 beds at the hospital. The college runs the hospital for dental teaching and patient care ¹.

Clinical departments cover orthodontics, operative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics ¹. The trust lists the same four fields for its postgraduate programmes ³.

The college trains postgraduates in the same four clinical fields through FCPS and MDS programmes ¹³.

Students meet patients early in the course, and the clinical years run inside the hospital on the same site ¹.

The college works from its own building at 7th Avenue, G-7/4, Islamabad ¹³. The building holds the teaching departments, laboratories and the dental hospital together ¹.

Facilities recorded in the fact sheet include phantom simulation suites, the 7th Avenue campus, the Riphah central library and student hostels.

Riphah keeps its central secretariat at Gulberg Greens in Islamabad and runs its city campus at G-7/4 beside the college ⁵. The contact page gives a fax line for the G-7/4 campus ⁵.

The university contact page lists the Islamabad campuses and their phone lines, so students can reach the administration from the college ⁵.

PMDC accredited the college for 75 admissions a year ¹³, and the PMDC register lists 75 seats in Islamabad ⁴.

The trust states that the college appears in the WHO directory of accredited medical schools and universities ³.

CPSP recognises the FCPS programmes in orthodontics, operative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics ³. The MDS programmes in orthodontics and operative dentistry, and the MPhil in dental materials, carry HEC and PMDC recognition ¹.

The fact sheet records PMDC recognition, WHO (WDOMS) listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation for the college.

The fact sheet records student hostels, so outstation students can stay near the campus.

The fact sheet records no women-only restriction, so men and women study at the college.

Riphah runs sports and societies across its campuses. Campus life includes interfaculty sports, coaching sessions and a societies training workshop ⁷.

Seminars and social events run through the year ⁷. The university holds its convocations for all faculties, including dentistry ². The college site keeps a student-life section for activities on campus ².