The Regional Dental Education Program (RDEP) is a cooperative dental education program between the University of Utah and Creighton University's School of Dentistry in Omaha, Nebraska. There is also an "At Large" tuition reimbursement program.
The last year students were accepted in the RDEP was 2012, since the new University of Utah School of Dentistry opened and accepted new students in 2013.
The RDEP had twenty positions available each year for Utah residents. Ten students admitted to the Creighton program would receive their first year of instruction at the University of Utah and the remainder of their training at the dental school at Creighton University. The ten "At Large" students could be trained at an accredited dental program of their choosing. The program reimbursed student tuition from $15,000 to $16,000 upon the completion of dental training, including graduate programs, if the recipient returned to practice dentistry in the State for a specific time period.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $2,365,200 from all sources for Regional Dental Education Program. This is a 1.5 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $569,400 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 4.9 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.