I think I’m really interested in studying neuroscience but I don’t think medical school is in my future. Are there other options for what I can do following undergrad?
Edit: I’m graduating from HS this year and none of the schools I applied to have a neuroscience major because that was not my initial plan. Can I still have a concentration in neuroscience or something?
What interests you about neuroscience? That can give a clue as to what might be a good direction to go with it.
If you try to stick closely to jobs in neuroscience/biology, there are not great career prospects. With just a BS degree, most of the jobs you’ll be looking at will be academic lab tech jobs (maybe $30,000 a year) or working for pharma companies (can pay 2x academia), but neither really has room for advancement without a graduate degree - in particular a PhD, if you want to do research. I’ve also seen people go tangential to neuroscience/biology after graduation with jobs in stuff like health administration or teaching.
As far as a concentration (I assume you mean within a biology major, for example), that depends on the university and you’d have to look at their curricula individually.
You can’t work professionally in neuroscience research w only an undergraduate degree in neuroscience. You’ll be relegated to being a lowly paid lab technician.
I sense a lot of neuroscience majors aren’t able to articulate what drew them to that field other than the fact it “sounds smarter” than simply saying “I’m majoring in biology”.