<p>Does anyone know what the top schools for an undergrad pursuing neuroscience would be?</p>
<p>Use the search feature!</p>
<p>There have been quite a few of these posts. </p>
<p>Anyway, Emory is supposed to be quite good. Also look at Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Rice, Cornell, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Colgate, Colorado College, NYU...</p>
<p>And on a less selective note, I've heard good things about Baylor.</p>
<p>I go to grad school at Hopkins - I wouldn't recommend doing a Pre-Med undergrad here as it'll be tougher to stand out. </p>
<p>If you want to do a PhD, then go ahead and go to the best school you can, as GPA is not as big a deal. </p>
<p>Also, don't go to UMKC's med program - I left Misery after 1 semester.</p>
<p>However...</p>
<p>I can't believe you guys left out Brown!!!!</p>
<p>I assumed no one would want to venture to Providence.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! </p>
<p>Was the UMKC program that bad? It's ridiculous how much they push for it here...</p>
<p>Berkeley does not have an undergrad neuroscience program. UCLA does, and I think UCSD does too. All three are tops for neuroscience, though.</p>
<p>Berkeley does; they just call it neurobiology. </p>
<p>It's not neuroscience, though. =p (The actual neuroscience program is strictly for grad <a href="http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/</a>)</p>
<p>Brown has one of the best neuro programs (I almost majored in it here), you should definitely consider it.</p>
<p>Is there really a major difference between a neurobiology and a neuroscience major?</p>
<p>Brown would be fabulous...if I got in, of course. :)</p>
<p>Princeton has been given funds to build a neuroscience center in the next few years...</p>
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No significant difference. Berkeley stills shows up in undergraduate neuroscience rankings.</p>
<p>I gotcha, just as long as I'm not missing out on schools with slightly different programs. :) Thanks.</p>
<p>It's all the same crap in the end - neuro is a tough body of knowledge, no undergrad degree can do it justice. </p>
<p>If you plan on doing a PhD, go to the best school possible and don't worry too much on grades (as in you don't need a 3.7+ to get admitted to a top grad school)</p>
<p>I still have good friends at UMKC - I was just not content with the program. Unless you are 100% certain you want to be a physician and want the most guaranteed path, I'd recommend going to one of the quality schools for undergrad that have been discussed.</p>
<p>Not to bash the place, some of my friends have done very well on their Step 1 there (the 1st board exam that residencies judge you on). Now if you are interested in being a neurosurgeon, realize it is probably the toughest residency to get - those type of people have disgustingly high board scores and have accomplished a lot. From your mentality, it's like a Harvard within a Harvard probability-wise. So for someone from UMKC, even with very high board scores, it's very hard to be competitive as people have a habit on initially judging you on the prestige of your institution.</p>
<p>Yeah, I plan on going on to do a PhD...and that's good news about the grades. </p>
<p>I understand what you mean about UMKC; especially with neuroscience, I don't know if I'd like to be a physician or do research so being stuck in something like that would feel clausterphobic. </p>
<p>Also, I found that USC has an honors neuroscience degree, meaning that should someone choose that major, they would have the opportunity for undergrad research and would write a thesis on that research. My question is, is that a fairly standard procedure for other institutions with neuroscience majors? What is everyone's opinion on that?</p>
<p>can someone provide a link of rankings for colleges neuro programs?</p>
<p>Is stanford good for neuroscience?</p>
<p>I’m looking into Neuroscience as well. Some of the schools I’ve briefly looked at are:
MIT, Pomona, Northwestern, UPenn, Duke, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins.</p>