<p>I am really interested in neuroscience but I want the small liberal arts school experience. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Middlebury is pretty good for Neuroscience I have heard! Maybe Harvey Mudd in California?</p>
<p>Most LACs have fantastic science programs (Carleton, Grinnell, Williams, Harvey Mudd, Colgate, Pomona, Reed, Bowdoin, etc)</p>
<p>Pomona for neuro</p>
<p>Brown, no doubt. Definitely more “liberal arts-like” than most other schools classified as research universities, and according to some of our JHU posters on here it was listed by a prominent neuroscientist as one of two places he’d recommend for undergraduate neuro (JHU being the other).</p>
<p>Our neuroscience and cognitive science are both top notch.</p>
<p>For advanced grad school prep in bio check out this chart: [REED</a> COLLEGE PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]REED”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College).</p>
<p>For bio at LACs it says (alphabetically) Earlham, Grinnell, Kalamazoo, Reed, Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Holy Cross-very good science program, campus is 1 hour from Boston.</p>
<p>Check out Clarkson U. and Union College in New York, Clark University in Mass., and Bucknell in Pennsylvania. Don’t know if they have neuroscience per se, but they seem to have a nice range of “sciency” offerings.</p>
<p>Brown is so not small. :p</p>
<p>If you’re female, Mount Holyoke! Here are just some of our science-related bragging rights: [Mount</a> Holyoke College :: Science Leadership](<a href=“http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/science.shtml]Mount”>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/science.shtml)</p>
<p>You should also look at the University of Rochester. I have a friend who’s majoring in Physics and English there, which is incredibly easy to do since they don’t have a real core curriculum.</p>
<p>definitely Harvey Mudd College</p>
<p>Brand new state of the art 60 million dollar science complex opened in January 2009 at Holy Cross (2700 students undergrad only). [Integrated</a> Science Complex | College of the Holy Cross](<a href=“http://www.holycross.edu/science_complex/]Integrated”>http://www.holycross.edu/science_complex/)</p>
<p>There should really be some sort of rule against shamelessly promoting your own school. It seems like every thread where somebody asks for help results in modestmelody and 1980collegegrad promoting Brown and Holy Cross regardless of what the OP asks for.</p>
<p>New buildings are nice, but they don’t automatically make a program good. 
Be careful about falling for schools that can only promote infrastructure and not amazing track records with faculty and student scholarship.</p>
<p>If you’re a female, I’m pretty sure every seven sister school has great sciences. Mt. Holyoke was already mentioned, but I know that Wellesley and Barnard are very good for neuroscience. I hear Smith is very good as well.</p>
<p>“There should really be some sort of rule against shamelessly promoting your own school.”</p>
<p>The OP asked for LACs good for neuroscience. Some of us know only one school well, so when it sounds appropriate, we mention it.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you’re located, but I’ve always heard good things about the science programs at Carleton in Minnesota.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is quite different from straight science (which at LACs usually means bio/pre-med). I have a friend who applied to transfer from SLC as a sophomore, specifically looking for psych and neuro; she’s very happy at Bryn Mawr now. Off the top of my head, she was also accepted to and seriously considered Smith.</p>