<p>All the colleges I hear about with great neuroscience programs are private and expensive. Which public universities have great undergraduate neuroscience programs?</p>
<p>Public universities can be more expensive than privates if you are OOS. What state are you in?</p>
<p>Many state unis have a neuroscience major but call it something else: brain and behavior, cognitive behavior, cognition and memory, behavioral cognition, cognitive science, etc. It is such an interdisciplinary field that you have to read each major’s course offerings carefully. </p>
<p>Then there are other schools who offer a program, minor, or certificate (e.g., Boulder).</p>
<p>My D found much of what she wanted at one of the older neurosci programs at Pitt, a semi-state school.</p>
<p>In the beginning, D did searches for cogn, neuro, and behavior. If you want some specific school names, let me know. We came to prefer public unis to lacs because of the breadth and depth of courses, numbers of labs and actively researching scientists, affiliations with hospitals and research institutes like NIH, and opps for research. Many LACs offer the research opps but not the breadth and depth of courses.</p>
<p>UCSD and UofMichigan.</p>
<p>I’ll second Pitt, but I’ll also second that it’s worth checking out some privates pending your finances.</p>
<p>Pitt is worth looking at either way though.</p>
<p>UConn. Physiology and Neurobiology major.</p>
<p>I’d also recommend Pitt. Search for posts by wgmcp101. He has provided a lot of good information about the Neuroscience major at Pitt. Here’s a link to the undergraduate department site: </p>
<p><a href=“Undergraduate | Neuroscience | University of Pittsburgh”>http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/programs/undergraduate/</a></p>
<p>Pitt comes to mind</p>
<p>Pitt, U Mich, William and Mary, Vermont, Florida State U, UT Austin, any of the UC’s, Delaware, Georgia, Arizona, Illinois at Urbana, U Mass Amherst, Minnesota Twin Cities</p>
<p>I live in Michigan, loquatical</p>
<p>Minnesota was one of my top choices for neuro when I was applying, but I ended up choosing Northeastern and have had a really great experience with the program here.</p>
<p>Are you looking for public schools because they are larger and have more research opportunities than LACs? If so, there are a lot of large private universities with a heavy focus on research, like Northeastern.</p>
<p>The University of Minnesota has one of the best neuroscience programs and is very affordable. The professors
are students are amazing. Professors answer your emails as late as 3 am. Minnesota also has one
of the best microbiology and immunology programs in the U.S.</p>
<p>–Professors answer your emails as late as 3 am.–</p>
<p>I’d like to clarify this statement so as not to impugn an entire faculty and profession:</p>
<p>“I heard of a professor answering a student email at 3 am.”</p>
<p>I once worked at an LAC where tour guides were in the habit of telling prospectives that you could call professors at home at 1am. Perhaps there was a professor who for some reason allowed a student this extraordinary privilege, but the LAC’s faculty, as you could imagine, did not enjoy being awakened at home by student phone calls. </p>
<p>Unless you hear it from the mouth of the professor, do not assume you can call her at home, show up at her home, mail her at home, or expect any response to your communication other than between 9 and 5 M-F. That is not to say that professors don’t answer extra-hours emails, we do it all the time, but students should not count on it. This goes for instantaneous response expectations, as well. While I’m at it, let me add that i much prefer to speak to you in person than to get an email, phone call, or text or, weakest of all, a note from my secretary. I actually like people your age and enjoy talking to you about almost anything.</p>
<p>A couple of notes. An OOS public could be more expensive than a private, depending on your qualifying for need based aid (or possibly merit aid.)</p>
<p>An undergrad degree is neuroscience isn’t required. Grad school applicants are expected to have an undergraduate degree in a component discipline of neuroscience such as biology, psychology, neurobiology, chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, engineering, or computer science</p>
<p>Indiana University-Neuroscience Major
IUPUI-Neuroscience through Purdue school
Purdue also has a form of a Neuroscience major but it’s called something else
all located in Indiana</p>