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<p>Check out [url=<a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/inbios21/public/www-data/videos.html]Lehigh’s">http://www.lehigh.edu/inbios21/public/www-data/videos.html]Lehigh’s</a> online video courses in neuroscience](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4944208-post11.html]#11[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/4944208-post11.html) to get a sense of the quality of their offerings.</p>
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<p>Neuroscience at Hopkins is actually among the top 3 largest majors at the undergraduate level. There is around 70-90 Neuroscience majors per class. (not 3-4 students). <a href=“Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University”>Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University;
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<p>Harvard I think offers Neurobiology major. My friend at Harvard is a Neurobiology major.</p>
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<p>Hopkins neuroscience is among the most prestigious departments at JHU as a whole.</p>
<p>Undergraduates have really unlimited access to the world renown Hopkins neurosurgery department and has really strong ties with the NIH. Research funding for undergrads is extremely plentiful…</p>
<p>My Neuroscience friend (uber smart dude) is a laboratory surgeon and dissects rats brains as an undergraduate. He works side-by-side with the PI which is unprecedented and rare according to some of the graduate Neuroscience students. My other neuroscience friend is a pipette monkey. He is uber smart too… eh.</p>
<p>I would strongly suggest Amherst, Carleton, Grinnell, Haverford, Pomona, and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>There was a neurosurgeon on these boards that said Brown and Johns Hopkins (The legendary Dr. Ben Carson anyone?) had among the top neuroscience offerings in the country. IDK about Brown, but Hopkins has the best undergraduate neuroscience program in the nation.</p>
<p>Other great programs are Harvard, Rockefeller U., UCSD, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, UCLA, UPittsburgh…</p>
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<p>JHU does not have a department of neuroscience in the School of Arts and Sciences just an interdepartmental program.
The program has no dedicated faculty just 20 faculty members borrowed from other departments.
It also does not issue a BS just a BA. </p>
<p>Let us not confuse the department of neuroscience at the medical school and the college.</p>
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<p>[Johns</a> Hopkins University - Department of Neuroscience](<a href=“The Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience”>http://neuroscience.jhu.edu/)</p>
<p>It’s clearly a Department at Johns Hopkins University with 31 primary faculty and 64 faculty from other departments. It does not graduate 3-4 students per year, more like 80-90 per year. It’s ranked among the top 3 graduate programs in the nation. So I’m assuming the undergraduate program has to be among the top 3 as well… </p>
<p>I’m also not very sure where this is going… So I am going to stop talking.</p>
<p>while you want to choose a school with a great neuroscience program, be sure that you like the rest of the school as well. you’ll be taking classes outside of neuroscience regardless of what school you go to, and you’ll want to enjoy those as well. if you care about location, size, type of student body, etc, this could rule out a number of schools mentioned so far. I would second Amherst, Pomona, and Wesleyan if you’re considering liberal arts colleges</p>
<p>The department of neuroscience at JHU is part of the school of medicine and is strictly a graduate program.</p>
<p>The undergraduate program is totally separate with its separate faculty and courses:
[Undergraduate</a> Neuroscience Program](<a href=“http://krieger.jhu.edu/neuroscience/index.html]Undergraduate”>http://krieger.jhu.edu/neuroscience/index.html)</p>
<p>“I’m also not very sure where this is going… So I am going to stop talking.”</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but I think he was looking for an undergrad program. Do they have an undergrad concentration?</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Neuroscience | Undergraduate Neuroscience | Duke University](<a href=“http://www.dibs.duke.edu/education/undergraduate-neuroscience]Undergraduate”>http://www.dibs.duke.edu/education/undergraduate-neuroscience)</p>
<p>UNDERGRAD Neuroscience at Duke is ballerrr.</p>
<p>Allegheny College has a good Neuroscience program. Allegheny students (graduated and currently enrolled) are sought out for some of the best internships and graduate schools.
[Allegheny</a> College: Neuroscience](<a href=“http://allegheny.edu/academics/neurosci/]Allegheny”>Neuroscience - Allegheny College)</p>
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Yep, Neuroscience at Hopkins (undergrad) is among the top 3 most popular majors in the school.</p>
<p>Thanks Phead128! Did not know they had that. :)</p>
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<p>Yuk! I’m glad I’m not in neuroscience.</p>
<p>Re: UC San Diego</p>
<p>I have read over the past couple of years a few not positive comments about student satsifaction at this UC… I wondered why.</p>
<p>I then visited a student review website dub dub dub dot students nospace review dot com where UCSD received a TeRRIBLE score on “would you return to this school”? An astounding 57% said they would <em>not</em>. Only 43% would choose the school again. That’s one of the worst scores in the country. The average dissatisfaction rate is about 30-35%, with the better schools between 20-25% dissatisfaction.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I met a UCSD alum in my office and she said the same thing! </p>
<p>Something is very wrong with the UNDERGRAD experience on the hilltops of La Jolla… they must put “I HATE this school” additives in the water. if you pursue that school for UNDERGRAD (I assume grad students think it’s great since its very high ratings are by and large for its grad programs), caveat emptor.</p>
<p>If you have the stats to get in (extremely competitive - only perhaps 2 students admitted per year): [Ohio</a> University: Honors Tutorial College: Neuroscience](<a href=“http://www.honors.ohio.edu/neurscience.htm]Ohio”>Honors at OHIO | Ohio University)</p>
<p>The reason so few? Many of the neuroscience courses are taught tutorial style - one-on-one with the professors. You are freed from taking a set of core course that most colleges require and you jump right into interesting areas right away as an undergrad: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Quantitative Neuroscience, or Neuroethology. Senior year, you are required to write a thesis, working closely with one professor, doing research in your field of interest. Minimum requirement to apply: top 10%, 31 ACT or higher. Hint: they are looking for passion; show that in the essays and in the required interviews.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you have the stats to get in, your tuition will be almost totally paid for with automatic scholarships.</p>
<p>Lots of perks, a small college environment within a larger university and all of the resources that implies.</p>
<p>Are you guys sure Yale has a neuroscience major? I didn’t see one on their site…</p>
<p>A bit late, but Yale does does not have a specific neuroscience major. Rather, it has a neurobiology track. [Yale</a> > Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology > Undergraduate Programs](<a href=“http://www.biology.yale.edu/undergrad/undergrad_area_2.html]Yale”>http://www.biology.yale.edu/undergrad/undergrad_area_2.html)
I believe it has something in the Psychology department too, but I’m not quite sure. :)</p>
<p>Reviving this thread since I found some relevant information for Yale and Neuroscience -</p>
<p>From the Yale site:
Neuroscience track in Psychology Students with a major interest in neuroscience may wish to elect the neuroscience track. Such students are considered Psychology majors for whom the requirements have been modified to accommodate their interests, and to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience and psychology. Given the broad nature of the field of neuroscience, students may wish to concentrate their studies in one area of the field (e.g., behavioral, cellular and molecular, cognitive, affective, social, clinical, or developmental). Interested students are encouraged to meet with the track adviser, Glenn Schafe, DL 204, 432-3461, <a href=“mailto:glenn.schafe@yale.edu”>glenn.schafe@yale.edu</a>. Majors in the neuroscience track meet with the track adviser at the beginning of each term in their junior and senior years.</p>
<p>[Psychology</a> | Yale College](<a href=“http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/psychology]Psychology”>http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/psychology)</p>