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Health

Number of Dental Schools and Pharmacy Schools in the Schedule

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2017Updated 11 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Overseas Dental and Pharmacy schools recognised by Singapore Dental Council and Singapore Pharmacy Council respectively.

No of schools by Year

Data explorer

NumberofDentalSchoolsandPharmacySchoolsintheSchedule.csv (24 rows, 464 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Specialisation Text	No. of Schools Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)8.3%
2006	Dentistry	34
2006	Pharmacy	na
2007	Dentistry	34
2007	Pharmacy	na
2008	Dentistry	89
2008	Pharmacy	124
2009	Dentistry	89
2009	Pharmacy	124
2010	Dentistry	89
2010	Pharmacy	133

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Specialisation	specialisation	Text	-	-
No. of Schools	no_of_schools	Numeric	No. of Schools	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1f1faa635f8695c307ec6ca5261a4578"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Number of Dental Schools and Pharmacy Schools in the Schedule (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1f1faa635f8695c307ec6ca5261a4578/view

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)