<p>Pitt is oriented towards Neuroscience, which is the field of the the biology of the nervous system, because it is an actual full fledged Department providing its own undergraduate program with a dedicated neuroscience teaching faculty for undergraduate courses. Ohio State has an undergrad program (it is not a department; although there is a grad-level only department in their med school) that their program has not even started yet (the first year will be this coming fall). Not being its own department means that, out of necessity, it has to utilize the faculty and courses of other actual departments, and with its psychology department offering biopsych courses, that is why their program is so heavy it, …because frankly, it has to be. Otherwise these courses would still be available through their psychology department and their program would offer more diverse neuroscience offerings (instead of duplicating). Put simply, for these reasons OSU’s undergraduate neuroscience program is inferior for anyone who is actually interested in Neuroscience. In fact, you can find their internal proposal online that proposes to their university to start the program, and in it they specifically sights Pitt, along with Johns Hopkins, Michigan, and UCSD, among “the top university against which Ohio State benchmarks itself”. </p>
<p>I do not think it would be hard to double major in Neuroscience and Psychology at Pitt (or probably anywhere else). Even without a double major, it would certainly be simple, and recommended, to pick up any psychology or biology courses as electives if they fit your interests outside the coursework that is specifically offered by the Department of Neuroscience at Pitt. The general consensus is that Psychology courses are generally easier than Neuroscience coursework, or coursework that is sometimes pared with Neuroscience like Molecular Biology. All the gen ed requirements would be identical, and also some of the science ones. But getting good research experience is also of paramount importance because neuroscience is a research field (really, it is also important in psychology).</p>
<p>If you are only interested in psychology, it probably doesn’t matter which school you go to, but for anyone interested in the area where psychology overlaps with neuroscience (bio or neuropsychology if you will), Pitt has more going on. And it definitely has more going on in straight neuroscience.</p>