Foundation University College of Dentistry

Foundation University College of Dentistry (FUCD) is a private dental college. It works inside the Foundation University School of Health Sciences (FUSH) beside Fauji Foundation Hospital ⁵.

The college teaches one undergraduate course, the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) ⁴⁵. The fact sheet records 75 BDS seats at the college.

NUMS is the admitting university for the college. NUMS lists FUCD among its Armed Forces Administered Dental Colleges for the 2025 admission cycle ¹². The college admission page tells candidates to apply online with NUMS ⁶.

The college runs its own dental hospital, Foundation University College of Dentistry and Hospital (FUCD&H), on the same campus ⁵. The fact sheet records 150 chairs in the dental hospital programme.

The college trains dentists beside the medical, nursing and pharmacy colleges of the same university, inside one health sciences school ⁵.

The fact sheet records the college as established in 2008 by the Fauji Foundation. Its history field gives 2014 for the dental hospital and the teaching programme.

The college states that FUCD&H was established as a dental hospital in January 2014. Undergraduate teaching started in January 2016 ⁵.

The campus lies adjacent to Fauji Foundation Hospital and Foundation University Medical College in the surroundings of DHA Phase-I, Islamabad ⁵.

NUMS listed the college as an attached dental college in 2024 ³. The 2025 list places it among the Armed Forces Administered Dental Colleges ².

The PMDC register lists the college with 75 seats in Islamabad ⁴.

FUCD belongs to FUSH, the health sciences wing of Foundation University that groups the university colleges in one teaching framework ⁵. The school runs interprofessional learning across its colleges.

The 2023 admission page of the college told candidates to apply online with NUMS after the national press advertisement ⁶. That placed the college inside the NUMS process at that time.

NUMS admits students to its private colleges on open merit and runs a separate foreign seat route. The centralized admission notice for 2026-27 defines those two categories. ⁷

NUMS sets the aggregate for BDS admission at 50% entrance test, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC ¹. 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.

The fact sheet records Fauji Foundation Hospital as the attached hospital and gives the dental hospital 150 chairs.

The college runs its own dental hospital, FUCD&H, on the DHA Phase-I campus ⁵. It opened in January 2014, and undergraduate teaching started in January 2016 ⁵.

Fauji Foundation Hospital sits beside the college and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the university health sciences colleges ⁵.

Specialised departments at the dental hospital include paediatric dentistry and accident and trauma care ⁵.

The college site lists twelve departments across the dental sciences, from dental materials and oral biology through to orthodontics and prosthodontics ⁵. Students of the dental college work in FUCD&H beside the neighbouring hospital.

The campus address is Foundation University Islamabad, Defence Avenue, DHA Phase-I, Islamabad 44000 ⁵.

Facilities recorded in the fact sheet include a phantom head simulation centre, a CAD/CAM prosthodontics suite, student hostels and the NUMS library.

The dental college sits beside Foundation University Medical College and Fauji Foundation Hospital on the same grounds ⁵. The campus groups the health sciences colleges in one location.

Its academic departments run from dental materials, community dentistry and oral biology through to orthodontics, periodontology, prosthodontics and oral surgery ⁵.

The DHA Phase-I address puts the campus outside the Rawalpindi city centre, in a quiet setting beside the hospital complex ⁵.

The PMDC register lists the college with 75 seats in Islamabad ⁴. The college states that its BDS course is fully regulated by PMDC ⁵.

The college is registered with the Pakistan Medical Commission and holds membership of the International Association of Medical Universities and Colleges ⁵.

NUMS lists the college in its dental college lists for 2024 and 2025 ³². CPSP approves the FCPS programmes in oral and maxillofacial surgery and orthodontics ⁵.

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 college.

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

FUSH designs its teaching as one shared framework, so students from the health sciences colleges learn together beside the hospital ⁵.

The campus holds the colleges and the hospital complex together, so students walk to clinics from their classes ⁵.