<p>UMiami may have a neuroscience major, but it isn’t exactly associated with cutting-edge research in that field. And it’s not like you’ll be short of neuroscience opportunities at Chicago–you can do biology w/ a specialization in neuroscience, and a computational neuroscience minor if you’d like. Reasons to pick UMiami would be 1) if you really like the life of the school better, or 2) if they gave you a lot of money, but not because Chicago is lacking a neuroscience major. </p>
<p>I’m not sure how relevant this is, but here’s an NRC ranking for neuroscience graduate programs: "<a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pomeran/nrcrankings.html">http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pomeran/nrcrankings.html</a>"
As you can see, Chicago is at 22 while Miami is at 76. </p>
<p>I have a similar dilemma to yours–pre-med/neuro at Duke (which just created a neuroscience major) vs. biology at Chicago. I’m 90% sure I’m choosing Chicago just because I like the atmosphere better. Just have to visit again.</p>