<p>I'm a rising sophomore at Brown planning to concentrate in Neuro. The official website says 70-80% of neuro concentrators go to med school, but I'm not sure if I want to. Does anyone know what the other 20-30% might eventually do (or at least what they are ABLE to do?). All I can think of is a life science PhD (or even MS bme?) or life science consulting (eventually getting MBA). Can anyone help?</p>
<p>They end up like this poor sap</p>
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<p>I’d suggest you consider a different degree if you plan on getting a job after college without going to a professional school or business grad school.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is an appropriate preparation for several areas of graduate and professional study. Besides medicine…</p>
<p>Psychology: Clinical Neuropsychology, Health Psychology/Rehabilitation Psychology, certain aspects of Human Factors Psychology, Experimental Psychology (Cognitive, Behavioral Neuroscience, Sensation/Perception)
Neurobiology
Psychopharmacology
Nursing (MSN): Psychiatric Nursing, Neurological Nursing
Speech Pathology, Audiology
Special Education (Learning Disabilities, Brain-Injury)
Physical Therapy
Certain areas of cognitive science, philosophy, linguistics
Bioethics
Gerontology
Optometry
Certain areas of History of Science/History of Medicine</p>
<p>what about careers that intersect with neuro/biotech, like biotech investment banking/venture capital and biotech IP patent law?</p>
<p>^ You wouldn’t really need a degree in neuroscience for those careers, the first one in particular. In fact, I’d say you don’t need any scientific knowledge at all to do biotech IB/VC, and an econ/finance degree might serve you better for that sort of thing.</p>
<p>As for IP patent law, the undergrad degree could be in any science/engineering (including neuroscience). You’ll have to get into a top law school to have a shot at a decent job in that field.</p>
<p>i’d like to bump this… if there are any current nuero majors or people who majored in neuro that could tell their story i would appreciate it. thanks.</p>
<p>Omg I want to major in Neuroscience too and have the same question!</p>
<p>^So why did you start another thread? sschoe2 answered your question.</p>
<p>You’ll be looking at graduate school and then doing research in something like AI, robotics, neuropsychology, or cognition; or maybe helping make biomedical devices. Neuroscience is interdisciplinary and relatively new, therefore there is no clear cut career path like a business major might have. However, you will likely be working in some kind of research role for a long time. Usually there are programs at universities where undergraduates can do a student-mentor thing with a grad student or professor to see how they like research in a given field. Try it out and see if it’s what you want to do.</p>