<p>Just to add to the previous comments–our neuroscience department is fantastic! We offered the first undergraduate neuroscience program in the country, and all of our neuroscience professors have actual neuroscience degrees (as opposed to biology, etc). And you get to do research! (I know this firsthand because I was a research subject for one of my neuroscience-major roommate’s projects when I was a student)</p>
<p>Also, as Plainsman mentioned, Oberlin is pretty much the opposite of a “homogeneous, conservative area.”</p>