<p>Hi,
I'm currently a junior, and am starting to look into colleges. I have plans to become a neuroscientist, so if anyone knows which colleges have good undergraduate neuroscience programs, your help is much appreciated.</p>
<p>If you want to be a neuroscientist, you need PhD. These undergrad schools have produced the highest percentages of future PhDs in the field of bio, and by implication show that they provide good PhD preparation. First posted by interesteddad.</p>
<p>Percent of PhDs per grad
Academic field: Bio and Health Sciences</p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 5.4%
2 Reed College 4.8%
3 Swarthmore College 4.4%
4 University of Chicago 3.3%
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.1%
6 University of California-San Francisco 3.1%
7 Harvard University 3.0%
8 Kalamazoo College 3.0%
9 Harvey Mudd College 2.9%
10 Earlham College 2.8%
11 Johns Hopkins University 2.7%
12 Princeton University 2.6%
13 Haverford College 2.6%
14 Mount Holyoke College 2.6%
15 Yale University 2.5%
16 Rice University 2.5%
17 Lawrence University 2.5%
18 Carleton College 2.5%
19 Stanford University 2.5%
20 Oberlin College 2.4%
21 Cornell University, All Campuses 2.4%
22 Grinnell College 2.3%
23 Hendrix College 2.3%
24 Bryn Mawr College 2.1%
25 Bowdoin College 2.1%
26 Wellesley College 2.1%
27 Amherst College 2.1%</p>
<p>Do a search. There have been a ton of threads on this very topic lately.</p>
<p>Thanks, you guys.</p>
<p>Agreed with jessiehl; this has been posted a lot. Just search the forum for "neuroscience" and you'll get plenty of threads.</p>
<p>What do the percentages next to each name of the college indicate?</p>
<p>It’s the ratio of (grads that went on to earn a PhD in Bio and Health Sciences) / (total grads in all fields) for the time periods given.</p>