neuroscience colleges

illinois_kid
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:19:51 +0000

I’ll give your question a shot. I’ll be an incoming freshman at Northwestern going into neuroscience.

I don’t know much about UVA, but I do know Chicago and Columbia have fairly strong programs. Columbia’s grad program is ranked in the top 10 by the NRC. I’ve heard (anecdotally) that Columbia doesn’t always offer a ton of opportunities for undergrads in science, but I could be wrong. I’ve heard Chicago does do a good job of opening things up for undergrads in the sciences, but again, I could be wrong. But I don’t think you’d be ill-served by either school, and I’d bet you’d also get a great neuro education at UVA too.

Other schools to consider would be: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown. There are plenty of good LACs for neuroscience too, and the list of schools I wrote is by no means exhaustive. After my college search, I pretty much concluded that almost any top university will be at least decent for neuroscience and many top LACs offer great programs as well. If you’re competetive for UChicago and Columbia, you’ve got a lot of options.

If you have questions as to how I made that list, feel free to PM me.