UPenn vs. Pomona

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@nostalgicwisdom

Pomona’s neuroscience is better than UPenn’s

Says who? And based on what? Penn’s undergraduate neuroscience program, called Biological Basis of Behavior, is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country, and is backed by one of the largest medical research budgets in the country (Penn is consistently among the top 2 or 3 recipients of NIH research funding in the country). To quote the BBB web site:</p>

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The Biological Basis of Behavior Program (BBB) is an interdisciplinary major in which students explore biological, psychological, computational and clinical approaches to understand the nervous system as the biological basis of behavior, as well as perception, memory, motivation, and emotion. The BBB program, created in 1978 as one of the first neuroscience undergraduate programs in the country, allows students to explore a broad range of topics in the neural sciences through courses taught by faculty and staff in several departments in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

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<p>[Biological</a> Basis of Behavior Program](<a href=“http://www.sas.upenn.edu/bbb/]Biological”>Neuroscience Program - Home | Neuroscience) [bolding and italics in original]</p>

<p>It’s a world-class program, and also happens to be one of the largest and most popular undergraduate majors at Penn.</p>

<p>I’m sure that Pomona also has an excellent neuroscience program, but there’s absolutely no basis for a blanket statement that it’s better than Penn’s.</p>