<p>What are some of the best colleges for an undergraduate in neurology?? I am not planning to go into pre-med -- I want to do a graduate in neurology as well. </p>
<p>I think MIT</p>
<p>What do you mean by neurology, exactly? Neurology is medical specialty, not an undergraduate major. Do you mean neuroscience?</p>
<p>^I agree with the above - there are no undergraduate majors in neurology.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is an undergrad major, but there are a lot of different ways to study neuroscience. Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles and methods from psychology and biology, as well as other fields - chemistry, even computer science, sometimes physics or cognitive science (which is another interdisciplinary science field). So you don’t have to go to a college with a neuroscience major - sometimes colleges have a neuroscience concentration within their biology and/or psychology departments.</p>
<p>With that said, any college with good solid sciences and a neuroscience major is a good place to go - there’s not really any undergrad rankings of specific majors (with the exception of engineering and business, as they are pre-professional) because your job as an undergrad is not to specialize as a researcher but to get a little depth and a lot of breadth. I mean, there are the usual suspects - Columbia has a strong neuroscientific community with a neuroscience major; JHU; Emory.</p>
<p>MIT doesn’t have an undergrad major in neuroscience exactly, but they do have an undergrad major in brain and cognitive sciences that serves the same purpose - and of course they are a powerhouse of neuroscience stuff.</p>
<p>If you want to get a graduate degree in neuroscience, I’m going to recommend leaning on the side of large research universities (or at least proximity to one). Neuroscientists make use of some expensive equipment and sophisticated research techniques. You’re more likely to find people who know how to use them - and have access to them - at large research universities. However, there are plenty of caveats to that. We have an administrator at Columbia who used to be a professor at Haverford, and she and her lab used the fMRI scanner at Penn (as I’m sure plenty of labs at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr do, too). Agnes Scott has a partnership with Emory, so their neuroscience major may be quite robust. And Barnard is across the street from Columbia, and so students benefit from the resources there. I just mean to be aware of the resources and labs you’ll have access to, because you’ll need research experience in neuroscience or a related field if you want to go to grad school in it.</p>
<p>Julliet, are you a neuro grad student?</p>