<p>Hi. I would like to become a PhD in the above field. Which schools provide the best undergraduate studies?</p>
<p>can you list up to 5 schools?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I have not heard of this field. Is it new? Neurochemistry?</p>
<p>Neurophysics is a <em>really</em> specific (and awesome) field. You wouldn’t major in it at the undergrad level. You’d study a more general major, like neuroscience or biology (you might be able to find a place with a biophysics major), and take an elective in neurophysics or work in a neurophysics research lab.</p>
<p>Some universities with strong neuroscience programs and at least one neurophysics research group (this is a partial list):</p>
<p>Brown
UPenn
UCSD
UNC Chapel Hill
Boston University
MIT (It doesn’t have a neurophysics lab per se, but it has a few profs who work on neurophysics among other things)</p>
<p>Just curious (know nothing about the field), but I’d imagine our biophysics concentration with a little neuroscience sprinkled in would be better than our neuroscience concentration for an interest like this…</p>
<p>Two of the strongest neuroscience schools that I know of are:</p>
<p>Brown University
and the Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>Overall, there are other good schools, but these two are exemplary and standout from the pack.</p>
<p>edit: another really good school is MIT, though I haven’t looked up whether it has undergrad neuroscience.</p>
<p>For graduate, the top three are Harvard, Stanford, and Hopkins.</p>
<p>Just curious, where do these “rankings” of undergraduate programs come from? I’ve seen references to undergraduate neuroscience rankings in other threads, but have never seen a link posted. For example, Brown’s graduate program isn’t in the USNWR’s top 10, nor is it in the NRC’s top 50, so where does that reputation come from?</p>
<p>There was a neurosurgeon CC forum member that recommended BROWN and Johns Hopkins as the top schools for neuroscience a while back.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about Brown but Hopkins is top 3 for neuroscience. It’s one of the more popular majors here at JHU.</p>
<p>Brown’s distinction comes largely from being the first place in the country to develop an undergraduate neuroscience program distinct from a biology concentration. The most commonly used introductory textbook was written by Brown professors who still teach the course here. While we’re not the kind of research powerhouse that’s required to reach high on the graduate ranking lists, we have one of the more comprehensive and well-taught neuroscience programs for undergrads in the country and it’s quite well respected.</p>
<p>The fact that we have a separate, popular, and strong biophysics concentration is certainly relevant to the OPs interests.</p>
<p>Ok thank you for replying…I have heard good and bad things about Hopkins so I am sort of partial about it in a negative way, but I will apply there. About MIT, I dont know if I can get in but I’ll apply. How do you guys like RPI’s department? I mean do they even have one? Berkeley? and also how good is Boston U’s department? </p>
<p>Thank you again.</p>