<p>Im planning to do single choice early action to either Harvard, stanford, princeton, or yale.</p>
<p>Which of those colleges has the best neuroscience/ neurobiology program?</p>
<p>or would you recommend any other colleges/LAC with great neuroscience program.
I was thinking of UVA, duke, columbia</p>
<p>thankyou</p>
<p>UCLA is supposed to have a great neuroscience program FYI. I’m not majoring in it, so i can’t tell you that much about it, but you should definitely look into it.</p>
<p>Stanford and Harvard are neck-and-neck in neuroscience. Most graduate rankings put them at #1-2. Yale and Princeton are decent but fall pretty far behind the other two.</p>
<p>But neither Stanford nor Harvard has a specific undergraduate major for “neuroscience.” For undergraduate, I’d say Stanford’s definitely the best for pursuing neuroscience/neurobiology. Harvard’s offerings in it are in its medical school, which is located a few miles from the main campus. At Stanford you’ll have access to the neuro offerings at the medical school, which is right on campus, has various relevant departments (neurosciences, neurobiology, neurology & neurological sciences, and neurosurgery), and offers lots of opportunities to undergraduates - courses, research, internships, libraries, etc.</p>
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<p>What’s great about neuro at Stanford is that it’s conducted in many different departments and schools: medicine, bioengineering, psychology, symbolic systems (Stanford’s version of cognitive science), even computer science and electrical engineering.</p>
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<a href=“https://psychology.stanford.edu/node/2029[/url]”>https://psychology.stanford.edu/node/2029</a>
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[Brian</a> A. Wandell](<a href=“http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/]Brian”>http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/)
[H.-S</a>. Philip Wong - Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/~hspwong/]H.-S”>H.-S. Philip Wong - Stanford University)</p>
<p>If you want to major in neuroscience/neurobiology, various majors offer a concentration in neuroscience or neurobiology: biology, symbolic systems, psychology, and possibly others like bioengineering, computer science (where you can design your own track), and engineering (where you can design your own major).</p>
<p><a href=“http://biology.stanford.edu/sites/all/files/neurobio_FOS.pdf[/url]”>http://biology.stanford.edu/sites/all/files/neurobio_FOS.pdf</a>
[Symbolic</a> Systems Neurosciences Concentration](<a href=“http://symsys.stanford.edu/viewing/htmldocument/13696]Symbolic”>Symbolic Systems Program)</p>
<p>Few schools will actually offer a major called “neuroscience” or “neurobiology.” But the field has long been one of Stanford’s crowning achievements, as it has a strong institutional focus in the cognitive sciences (which neuroscience falls under).</p>
<p>I’ve also heard that Brown is good for Neuroscience.</p>
<p>^ agreed - Brown is great in neuroscience. OP, you might also look into Johns Hopkins, MIT, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Rochester, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and Washington University in St. Louis - all of which are great in neuroscience or some focus of it (like CMU’s neural basis of cognition). IMO the only one that might rival Stanford in undergraduate offerings here is MIT - it has brain and cognitive sciences (BCS).</p>
<p>Dartmouth actually offers a neuroscience major as well, though it pales in comparison to what Stanford and MIT offer.</p>
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<p>first, i would like to thankyou for providing me with all these info. These replies really helped me.</p>
<p>some more questions tho
would it be better for me to go to a school with dedicated department and a dedicated faculty/professors for neuroscience which i know that johns hopkins have?
or just go to stanford or harvard where the major for neuroscience exist but there is no dedicated department for it (interdisciplinary program?)</p>
<p>Also im more interested in biology of neuroscience than the psychology part of neuroscience… would this make a difference in list of colleges that u recommended?</p>
<p>Im also looking into going into medicine after undergraduate. Would the colleges u listed still be a good choice?</p>
<p>Is major in neuroscience (like in harvard eventho its neurobiology) better than major in biology and concentration in neuroscience (stanford)?</p>
<p>lastly,
what should I look for in the other colleges that i will be applying to?</p>
<p>sry for asking too much questions</p>
<p>^ no problem.</p>
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<p>I don’t think so. Often you’ll find that the difference between a department and a program is largely political or technical: a department has the ability to hire and fire faculty, whereas a program simply doesn’t. However, a university can have great strength in a given area of study without having an official department for it, by having a program that pulls together all the faculty whose interests are relevant (for a degree program, for research, etc.).</p>
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<p>Not Stanford or MIT, but I can’t speak for the rest. I’d recommend you check out each department’s site and see what degree programs (and concentrations) they offer, what the requirements are, what faculty have an interest in your area of interest (very important), what courses are offered, what research is conducted / what centers/institutes are available. All this is important for you to get a handle on which school has the greatest offering in your specific area of study.</p>
<p>As an example: Stanford and MIT are both the top schools for CS, but Stanford just happens to offer a lot more in terms of the above factors for my specific niche. If you don’t know what your niche is, that’s okay - exploring the offerings at each university will help you figure that out.</p>
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<p>I’d say so, although at the harder schools you might have to watch out for grade deflation (especially MIT and Berkeley), since GPA is most important for med school. Stanford’s relatively inflated, so that’s a plus for you.</p>
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<p>This has been asked about neuroscience a lot, and the consensus is that no, having an actual major in neuroscience/neurobiology isn’t more useful than a more general degree with a concentration in it. That’s why most neuro programs are not undergraduate; the philosophy of most universities is that it’s better to get some training in it as an undergraduate and then go to grad school where you’ll actually be doing nothing but neuro work (and thus getting a degree named for such).</p>
<p>What’s most important is the offerings that a university has, with the criteria I listed as a guide for gauging that.</p>
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<p>I’m not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean of the other schools that I listed?</p>
<p>thankyou again…Im leaning towards stanford early action now.</p>
<p>How about public universities tho?
what has the best neuroscience program among Umichigan, UVA, and UNC?
which of those three is best for premed? (grade inflation) </p>
<p>thanks alot</p>
<p>btw im out of state for all three uva, unc, umichi
but im considering them cause they all have early action and i can apply to them while applying to stanford</p>
<p>also if there is any great liberal arts school for neuroscience and premed , it would be very helpful too.
I was thinking about franklin and marshall, amherst, pomona</p>