<p>Neither Harvard, Yale or Stanford offer an UNDERGRADUATE neuroscience major. </p>
<p>The Johns Hopkins neuroscience interdisciplinary program is very small with 3 to 4 students majoring every year.</p>
<p>Duke has also recently started offering an interdisciplinary neuroscience program. Can’t tell how popular it is. </p>
<p>MIT has by far the best established undergraduate neuroscience department among private universities as well as the largest neuroscience research lab in the world. Around 50 undergrads major in the department every year.
[MIT</a> : Brain and Cognitive Sciences : About BCS](<a href=“http://bcs.mit.edu/aboutbcs/]MIT”>http://bcs.mit.edu/aboutbcs/)</p>
<p>Princeton offers currently a very popular certificate program in neuroscience for undergrads in conjunction with the new Princeton Neuroscience Institute. It will probably become a full major when the new neuroscience building opens.
[Princeton</a> Neuroscience Institute](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/neuroscience/]Princeton”>Princeton Neuroscience Institute)</p>
<p>Brown also has an established neuroscience department offering majors for undergrads.
[Department</a> of Neuroscience](<a href=“http://neuroscience.brown.edu/]Department”>http://neuroscience.brown.edu/)</p>
<p>If you are seriously interested in neuroscience you should:</p>
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<li><p>Make sure that the major is offered by a dedicated department and that is not just some interdisciplinary program with faculty borrowed from a bunch of departments. This vastly impacts resources, breadth and depth of course offerings and research opportunities. </p></li>
<li><p>make sure it is a BS program. BA programs are essentially glorified psych programs. </p></li>
<li><p>Check how many undergrads actually major in the field at the particular college. That will give you an idea about how popular the program is.</p></li>
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