<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>With application time for colleges running out, I was wondering where I should apply.</p>
<p>I am interested in a career in R&D of prosthetics om neural interfaces, implants, and biomechatronics. I hear Stanford, MIT, John Hopkins, and Duke are the best in these areas but I'm not sure how accurate that is.</p>
<p>I already got deferred (in other words, rejected - very unlikely I'll get in now) from MIT EA, my original top choice (well, there goes that dream :( ).</p>
<p>Could someone help me out here?</p>
<p>Neural engineering is a graduate level program and it’s unlikely you’ll find an undergrad that offers a program specifically in NE.</p>
<p>NE is a subfield of BME, although it’s not uncommon for computer sci and EE grads to enter the field. Occasionally, you’ll see neuroscience or cognitive science students with a strong background in physics and mathematics in NE grad programs.</p>
<p>Some other programs with strong [grad] programs in neural engineering: Georgia Tech, Pitt, UCSD, UCB, Boston U, Case Western, Northwestern. </p>
<p>U Minnesota allows BME undergrads to have an emphasis in neural engineering.</p>
<p>Thanks. Are the schools I listed already decent in biomechatronics? </p>
<p>MIT has extensive UROP programs (which I, sadly, won’t be able to experience). Do any of these schools (JHU, Duke, Stanford, Georgia Tech, etc) offer UROP programs like MIT’s?</p>
<p>Research opportunities exist at all those school, although perhaps in a less formalized way than MIT. IOW, the impetus has to come from the student who seeks out a lab/professor to work with. BTW, all those schools host REUs in engineering.</p>
<p>Biomechatronics programs: look at Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>You might also try asking about NE programs in the Engineering subforum</p>
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<p>since your question is about engineering programs and not medical school.</p>
<p>Ahem. May I suggest brown university. We did invent brain gate after all ([BrainGate</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainGate]BrainGate”>BrainGate - Wikipedia))</p>