<p>It is hard to find which schools have good cognitive science programs. I guess it is more so because it isn't a very popular major.
But anyways which schools have the best Cognitive Science/Neuroscience/Linguistics Programs?</p>
<p>Hmm, I'd place Stanford, Berkeley, UCSD (neurosci), MIT, CalTech, and Harvard at the top of your list (for the various majors you listed). Don't know about their specific programs, but their all great in science fields and such. good luck!</p>
<p>thanx vc08....i just kinda assumed that most of the major Universities, especially ones that have strong sciences, have strong departments.</p>
<p>A lot of universities actually don't have extensive cognitive science and linguistics programs. Neuroscience is really more biological. You can do cognitive science and linguistics without any biology at all...</p>
<p>Anyway, Berkeley and Stanford are very strong in cognitive science/linguistics. UCSD is famous for neuroscience. Carnegie Mellon is supposed to have good cognitive science. Someone was saying that Pomona is strong in these areas.</p>
<p>The top 10 programs in Cognitive Science according to the latest
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index are:</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]MIT (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
[</em>] Carnegie Mellon U. (Neural Basis of Cognition)
[<em>] Washington U. St Louis (Cognitive Science)
[</em>] Johns Hopkins U. (Cognitive Science)
[<em>] Brown U. (Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences)
[</em>]U. Rochester (Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
[<em>]Indiana U. - Bloomington (Cognitive Psychology)
[</em>] Dartmouth Coll. (Cognitive Neuroscience)
[<em>]UC - San Diego (Cognitive Science)
[</em>]U. Pittsburgh (Intelligent Systems Studies)
[/ol]</p>
<p>The top 10 programs in Linguistics according to the same index are:</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]Stanford U. (Linguistics)
[</em>]U. Arizona (Linguistics)
[<em>] UNC - Chapel Hill (Linguistics)
[</em>]U. Chicago (Linguistics)
[<em>]Ohio State U. (Linguistics)
[</em>]U. Pennsylvania (Linguistics)
[<em>] Georgetown U. (Linguistics)
[</em>] Penn State U. (Applied Linguistics)
[<em>]U. Maryland - College Park (Linguistics)
[</em>] Yale U. (Linguistics)
[/ol]</p>
<p>Finally, the top 10 list for neuroscience is:</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>] Harvard U. (Neuroscience)
[</em>] Rockefeller U. (Neuroscience)
[<em>] UC - San Diego (Neuroscience)
[</em>]Yale U. (Neuroscience)
[<em>]UC - Los Angeles (Neuroscience)
[</em>] Stanford U. (Neurosciences)
[<em>] Columbia U. (Neurobiology and Behavior)
[</em>]Johns Hopkins U. (Neuroscience)
[<em>] UC - San Francisco (Neuroscience)
[</em>] Weill Cornell Med. School (Neuroscience)
[/ol]</p>
<p>That was an informative (and intense!) list. Any other lists from different publications?</p>
<p>I was a Brain & Cognitive Science (interdisciplinary neuroscience/cog sci degree) major at MIT. It's a nice program.</p>
<p>To look at a school that's slightly less competitive in terms of admissions, BU has a Cognitive & Neural Systems department.</p>
<p>Hopkins, Brown, UCSD, Stanford and MIT are right up there. URochester is a less selective school with a fabulous program.</p>
<p>I'll be attending UCSD, so I'm excited that their cognitive science/neuroscience programs are excellent. Where have these majors brought everyone here, careerwise?</p>
<p>^I was a Brain & Cognitive Sciences major at MIT with jessiehl, and I'm now a neuroscience PhD student.</p>
<p>Swarthmore has both a Linguistics Dept. and a cognitive science program.</p>
<p>Amherst, Haverford, Pomona, Williams also have really strong neuroscience programs.</p>
<p>MIT, Hopkins....Doesn't MIT have Noam Chompsky in their linguistics department? Still didn't make that top ten? That sucks.</p>
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But anyways which schools have the best Cognitive Science/Neuroscience/Linguistics Programs?
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<p>Here's what I'd said about this before:</p>
<p>And the best linguistics schools:</p>
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I'd place Stanford, Berkeley, UCSD (neurosci), MIT, CalTech, and Harvard at the top of your list (for the various majors you listed).
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<p>Agreed with this for the most part, but I'll add that Stanford doesn't quite have "cognitive science"; instead it has its own spin on cogsci in what it calls "symbolic systems." Here's what I'd posted about it before (post #26)</p>
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That was an informative (and intense!) list. Any other lists from different publications?
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<p>Try the NRC rankings:</p>
<p>NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas</p>
<p>You can also search CC for "gourman [insert discipline" for undergrad rankings--collegehelp has probably posted all of them at least once by now.</p>
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Swarthmore has both a Linguistics Dept. and a cognitive science program.
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<p>I'll add that Swarthmore has an excellent linguistics department that shares courses with Bryn Mawr and Haverford (not to mention UPenn, which has a top-10 linguistics department and also bears the mark of Noam Chomsky).</p>
<p>Swarthmore</a> College :: Linguistics</p>
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Doesn't MIT have Noam Chompsky in their linguistics department? Still didn't make that top ten? That sucks.
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<p>MIT did have Noam Chomsky, but he has long retired. Even then, though, just one professor won't make or break a department. I will say that MIT does have an excellent linguistics department, but it's very theoretical and has few applied courses, and its language offering is limited (which linguistics isn't necessarily concerned with, but can be important to linguists).</p>
<p>Penn!
Biological</a> Basis of Behavior Program
Institute</a> for Research in Cognitive Science
Computer</a> & Information Science / Undergraduate Degree Programs<a href="scroll%20down%20for%20stuff%20of%20cog%20sci">/url</a>
[url=<a href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%5DUniversity">http://www.ling.upenn.edu/]University</a> of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
UPenn</a> - SAS - Biology - Programs - Undergraduate - Concentrations - Neuroscience</p>
<p>There are many paths to take with cognitive/neuro science at Penn. You can do a traditional biology major with a neuro concentration. You can major in BBB (very popular among premeds) for a more bio-psych fusion. You can major in cognitive science and choose your path (computer science, language, computational, etc.) based on your interests. Penn also has a top rated linguistics program.</p>
<p>Those are all great programs. I would add in the University of Colorado at Boulder and Vanderbilt University as well.</p>
<p>Very Helpful
Especially in my Why certain schools essays</p>
<p>Rice University for CogSci and Ling</p>
<p>How do the undergraduate programs at Vanderbilt and Cornell and Williams rank and compare for Cognitive Sciences?</p>
<p>ok, ppl SRSLY need to stop using the outdated NRC rankings from 1995</p>
<p>these rankings are more reputable than USNWR and are updated just about yearly:</p>
<p>[FSP</a> Index Top Performing Individual Programs](<a href=“http://www.academicanalytics.com/TopSchools/TopPrograms.aspx]FSP”>http://www.academicanalytics.com/TopSchools/TopPrograms.aspx)</p>
<p>take a look. This is the most trust-worthyable info as even top colleges go here to check out how their schools are faring in comparison, though they get a longer list with more numbers for each category haha</p>