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Most Popular Schools for Neuroscience Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the interdisciplinary scientific study of the molecular, structural, physiologic, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of the brain and nervous system. Includes instruction in molecular and cellular neuroscience, brain science, anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system, molecular and biochemical bases of information processing, behavioral neuroscience, biology of neuropsychiatric disorders, and applications to the clinical sciences and biomedical engineering.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Binghamton University 236 5% $26,866
2 Ohio State University-Main Campus 219 2% $27,367
3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 197 2% $30,298
4 Michigan State University 165 1% $28,862
5 University of California-Los Angeles 146 1% $34,620
6 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 146 2% $33,503
7 The University of Texas at Dallas 143 2% $29,286
8 Johns Hopkins University 128 2% $71,901
9 Emory University 125 3% $69,502
10 The University of Texas at Austin 123 1% $26,506
11 University of California-Riverside 121 2% $35,242
12 Brigham Young University-Provo 120 2% $18,776
13 Northeastern University 119 2% $70,592
14 University of Wisconsin-Madison 117 1% $26,025
15 University of Notre Dame 115 4% $71,801
16 University of Pennsylvania 113 2% $74,408
17 Indiana University-Bloomington 107 1% $24,779
18 Boston University 99 1% $72,618
19 Columbia University in the City of New York 92 1% $76,856
20 University of Arizona 91 1% $29,217
21 University of Illinois at Chicago 90 1% $30,866
22 Northwestern University 86 1% $74,649
23 Duke University 84 2% $74,339
24 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 84 1% $27,898
25 Georgia State University 83 1% $26,014
26 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 82 1% $26,834
27 Temple University 82 1% $33,004
28 College of William and Mary 81 3% $39,221
29 Vanderbilt University 78 2% $70,146
30 University of Nevada-Reno 77 2% $25,039
31 University of San Diego 76 3% $67,498
32 University of Southern California 69 0% $74,825
33 University of Colorado Boulder 68 1% $31,044
34 University of Miami 65 1% $68,460
35 Brown University 64 3% $73,802
36 George Mason University 58 1% $30,284
37 Brandeis University 58 3% $73,335
38 University of Delaware 57 1% $29,342
39 Central Michigan University 53 1% $24,889
40 New York University 51 0% $73,566
41 Washington State University 50 1% $27,484
42 University of Vermont 47 2% $34,210
43 University of California-Santa Cruz 46 1% $36,217
44 Colgate University 43 6% $72,275
45 Dartmouth College 43 2% $74,359
46 Princeton University 41 2% $70,900
47 Wellesley College 38 6% $72,250
48 Baylor University 37 1% $62,527
49 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 37 1% $33,750
50 Barnard College 36 6% $74,777
51 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 35 0% $22,537
52 Rhodes College 34 7% $63,040
53 University of Nebraska at Omaha 33 1% $22,300
54 Washington University in St Louis 33 1% $74,361
55 Middlebury College 33 4% $71,980
56 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 33 0% $27,476
57 Muhlenberg College 32 5% $67,535
58 Lehigh University 31 2% $68,595
59 Lafayette College 31 5% $71,270
60 University of Alabama at Birmingham 31 1% $26,336
61 Union College 29 6% $70,860
62 Bowdoin College 29 6% $70,710
63 Creighton University 28 2% $54,952
64 University of St Thomas 28 1% $56,664
65 Connecticut College 27 6% $71,970
66 Vassar College 26 4% $72,760
67 University of Kentucky 26 0% $30,101
68 Trinity University 26 4% $58,840
69 Macalester College 25 5% $68,627
70 Western Washington University 25 1% $24,077
71 Trinity College 24 4% $74,160
72 Bates College 24 5% $71,168
73 Pomona College 24 6% $71,996
74 University of Scranton 24 2% $62,686
75 Oberlin College 24 3% $74,636
76 Washington and Lee University 24 5% $70,500
77 Smith College 23 3% $72,701
78 Carnegie Mellon University 23 0% $72,283
79 Ponce Health Sciences University 23 17% $13,726
80 Grand Valley State University 22 0% $24,948
81 Saint Louis University 22 1% $61,018
82 The College of Wooster 22 5% $64,000
83 Skidmore College 21 3% $71,730
84 Amherst College 21 5% $73,966
85 Kenyon College 21 5% $71,780
86 Fordham University 20 0% $74,265
87 Lake Forest College 20 5% $60,980
88 Mount Holyoke College 19 3% $66,558
89 Emmanuel College 19 4% $58,153
90 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 18 0% $26,231
91 Ursinus College 18 5% $68,122
92 Carthage College 18 3% $59,240
93 Agnes Scott College 18 10% $55,625
94 Hamilton College 18 4% $69,990
95 Franklin and Marshall College 18 3% $73,070
96 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 18 1% $70,240
97 University of Chicago 17 0% $78,555
98 Westminster College 17 2% $48,264
99 Allegheny College 17 4% $63,180
100 Bucknell University 17 2% $72,750

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Neuroscience program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.