<p>Ditto, Hopkins.<br>
Its proximity to Washington D.C. gives it a natural advantage in getting federal research dollars (not that these are not to some extent spread out all over the country).</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the medical applications of CS/NS but I do know that Hopkins does interesting research on Natural Language Processing applications that may be related to your interests in Cognitive Science. Hopkins has the advantage of geographic proximity not only to federal agencies but also to other strong institutions such as UPenn, CMU, Maryland.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat the B.A./B.S. distinction. At my alma mater, they called the thing they gave me an “A.B.”, which looks likes a typo on my diploma but nobody seems to care.</p>