<p>Can you recommend schools that offer strong depth and breath in Neuroscience
Cognitive Sciences beyond HYPS. My D wants a school that offers a
major not a concentration, and also a large university in a urban city.
We are aware of the public, Berkley, UCLA and UCSD programs.</p>
<p>What about Vanderbilt? It has a strong program (link below) with many research opportunities. Vanderbilt Med Center is world-class and known for its neuro services. Great city (Nashville); the university is more mid-sized than large, but when you add in all the grad and professional students, I think the student population is over 12K.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/neuroscience/home/]Neuroscience[/url”>http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/neuroscience/home/]Neuroscience[/url</a>]</p>
<p>thanks for the link will tell my d to check it out</p>
<p>Possibly Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> for undergrad](<a href=“http://bcs.mit.edu/academics/undergrad.html]MIT”>http://bcs.mit.edu/academics/undergrad.html)! The deaprtment is also doing [fantastic</a> research at the graduate level](<a href=“http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/bcsnews.html]fantastic”>http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/bcsnews.html):</p>
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<p>MIT, CMU, Caltech, Emory. Second idea of Berkeley. UCSF is great for biological side of NS, but just grad school. UCSD is strong. (Sorry, but I only have secondary insight into schools on the coasts.) I know Caltech is small, but the have a major in this area, and students can work in labs from the start.</p>
<p>WUStL, according to someone who spent time there in a medical residency</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh:
[Programs</a> | Department of Neuroscience | University of Pittsburgh](<a href=“http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/programs/]Programs”>Programs | Neuroscience | University of Pittsburgh)</p>
<p>University of Rochester:
[Undergraduate</a> Neuroscience Program](<a href=“http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/neuro/]Undergraduate”>Neuroscience : Undergraduate Programs : Brain and Cognitive Sciences : University of Rochester)</p>
<p>Pitt has exactly what you are looking for and is one of the oldest and best undergraduate neuroscience programs in the country. </p>
<p>Pitt is also one of the largest centers of medical/bioscience research in nation. It is #5 in NIH funding behind Harvard, Hopkins, Penn, and UCSF.</p>
<p>Hopkins, although Baltimore is a dump.</p>
<p>Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Also, in addtion to the UCs mentioned in the OP, UC Irvine and UC Davis also have Neuroscience majors.</p>
<p>Middle school is way too early to think about these things, and you have no idea at this point if your kid is HYPS or similar material. It concerns me that you think that that level of school is a given.</p>
<p>OP joined the forum in 2005. It’s possible her D is past middle school by now.</p>
<p>The Johns Hopkins main campus is in a very nice part of Baltimore. The med school, not so much. It’s just not true, though, that Baltimore is a “dump.”</p>
<p>McGill.</p>
<p>If only for their really cool brain website: [LE</a> CERVEAU À TOUS LES NIVEAUX!](<a href=“http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/]LE”>http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/) This is the link to the English version of the website, but for some reason the name appears in French.</p>
<p>thanks very good to know that one</p>
<p>My D is not in Middleschool! But a senior in HS</p>
<p>Middleschool is my user name not my daughter grade in school!</p>
<p>What about PENN vs Pitt</p>
<p>MIT for undergrad! The deaprtment is also doing fantastic research at the graduate level:</p>
<p>Thank you for the links- we love MIT- but very very selective- but she will apply</p>