Neuroscience

College Search & Selection
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<p>Does anyone know which universities (list of 20-30) have good Neuroscience departments?</p>

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<p>Here's the ranking of neuroscience programs in graduate schools:
1 Cal San Diego<br>
2 Yale<br>
3 Harvard<br>
4 Cal San Francisco<br>
5 Stanford<br>
6 Columbia<br>
7 Johns Hopkins<br>
8 Washington (St. Louis)<br>
9 Cal Berkeley<br>
10 Penn<br>
11 Cal Tech<br>
12 Washington<br>
13 Rockefeller<br>
14 MIT<br>
15 UCLA<br>
16 Duke<br>
17 Case Western<br>
18 Michigan<br>
19 Brandeis<br>
20 Baylor College of Medicine<br>
21 Cal Irvine<br>
22 Chicago<br>
23 Northwestern<br>
24 Cornell<br>
25 Wisconsin<br>
26 North Carolina<br>
27 Albert Einstein College of Med<br>
28 SUNY Stony Brook<br>
29 Vanderbilt<br>
30 Virginia<br>
31 Oregon<br>
32 Iowa<br>
33 Emory<br>
34 Minnesota<br>
35 Mayo Graduate School<br>
36 Texas Southwestern Med Ctr<br>
37 Southern Cal<br>
38 Colorado<br>
39 Pittsburgh<br>
40 Illinois<br>
41 Texas Medical Galveston<br>
42 Rochester<br>
43 Colorado State<br>
44 Rutgers<br>
45 Arizona<br>
46 Connecticut<br>
47 Texas<br>
48 Georgetown<br>
49 Texas Health Sci Ctr Houston<br>
50 Medical College of Pensylvania</p>

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<p>Some of these don't offer Neuroscience for undergrad, so be sure to check. For LAC's, also look at Bowdoin and Allegheny.</p>

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<p>Actually this is the ranking for graduate school.</p>

<ol>
<li> University of California–San Francisco</li>
<li> Harvard University (MA)</li>
<li> Stanford University (CA)</li>
<li> Columbia University (NY)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)</li>
<li> Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li> University of California–San Diego</li>
<li> Yale University (CT)</li>
<li> University of California–Los Angeles</li>
<li> Duke University (NC)
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington</li>
</ol>

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<p>Oberlin also has an excellent neuroscience department.</p>

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<p>those rankings are ridiculous...i've been working in neuroscience for 5 years in HS and i think i know the field pretty well...some of those are exaggerated. Columbia Stanford Hopkins Yale the UCs and Duke are all good...ill post more in the morning or you can contact me at AOBSynapse</p>

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<p>sorry about the rush...anyway, for undergraduate there are some programs that are not as good as their graduate programs. For instance, in my opinion, although the graduate program in neurobiology and behavior at Columbia University is among the best in the world if not the best, the undergraduate program in neuroscience and behavior does not benefit from the incredible graduate faculty; rather they are much stronger in cognitive psychology. Hopkins for example has terrific undergraduate and graduate programs as does Duke and a number of others, but its important to get a feel for what you might be interested in within neuroscience because the subfield strength will vary from dept to dept. MIchicgan for example has a pretty decent overall program when it comes to studying brain sciences, while Yale has only a concentration on other biological sciences majors</p>

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<p>I used the National Research Council rankings, VTBoy. Of course, NRC's rankings are kind of old...:)</p>

<p>Duke does have a really good program in neurobiology. I've been in contact with some of the biology professors, and they're great. The concentration focuses on cognitive bio/behavioral bio. In addition to the research done in the Duke hospital, Duke students also have access to the Primate Center, a great resource.</p>

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<p>VTBoy, </p>

<p>If I may ask, where did you get your posted rankings of graduate school neurology departments? Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>As Ohio_Mom said Bowdoin's neuroscience department is very good. Among some of the courses that are offered are: Neurophysiology, Molecular Neurobiology, Topics in Neuroscience, Developmental Neurobiology, Neuronal Regeneration, Neuropsychology, Physiological Psychology, Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience: Learning and Memory, Neurobiology of Mental Retardation etc. In Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience: Learning and Memory, you actually get to work with goldfish and modify their neurological and hormonal responses through various surgical techniques, its pretty interesting to see. The other nice thing about Bowdoin is that most of the upper level classes have only 3-5 students, so you really get to know the professors well. I highly encourage you to check it out at <a href="http://www.bowdoin.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.bowdoin.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Silly question... Where would McGill (and the MNI) be if it were on those lists?</p>

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<p>graduate or undergraduate? </p>

<p>Wisconsin offers a neurobiology concentration for biology majors,</p>

<p><a href="http://www.neuroscience.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.neuroscience.wisc.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>But the neuroscience Training Program offers a PhD degree only.</p>

<p><a href="http://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins University as probably the best neuroscience undergraduate professors in the world, and as far as I know they have a top undergraduate program</p>

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<p>Brown has a great undergrad neuroscience program--the intro class is taught by three professors who wrote the first and most widely used undergrad neuroscience text (Bear, Connors, and Paradiso)</p>

<p>the professors in the department are all great teachers--I got to write my undergrad thesis with a nobel laureate and my concentration advisor was David Berson (the guy who discovered that the eye has a third photoreceptor, in addition to rods and cones)</p>

<p>there's even a bunch of undergrads involved in the braingate project that has been getting a lot of press recently (they neurosurgically implanted a chip in the brain of a quadriplegic patient that allows him to move a cursor on a screen with his thoughts and hence, surf the internet, control the tv, and do many other tasks)</p>

<p><a href="http://neuroscience.brown.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://neuroscience.brown.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Amherst has the oldest undergraduate neuroscience program in the country and it is excellent. Other excellent undergraduate programs not yet mentioned include U of Rochester and Brandeis.</p>

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<p>Bear - Memory pills? No?</p>

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<p>Although there's no attempt at ranking, we found this helpful: <a href="http://andp.physlog.uiowa.edu/programs/programs.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://andp.physlog.uiowa.edu/programs/programs.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>if you're a girl, barnard has a very good neuroscience and behavior undergraduate major. if you're a boy or girl, columbia is good for both undergrad and grad.</p>