What colleges offer Neurological Science as a major?

Question

AKA Neuroscience. I want to be a brain surgeon and was looking into this major. The only Ivies I will be applying to are Cornell and Dartmouth because those might be the only ones that will accept me you know. I am also applying to UNC, Vanderbilt, and NYU, among 20 others but these are the five I feel I would really love to go to. Other majors I am considering are:

Linguistics

Neurobiology

Neurochemistry

among others.

I also want to be an Epileptologist who is board certified in my case possibly Pediatric Neurology or Neurosurgery. Follow this link for more:http://w3.ouhsc.edu/neuro/division/cope/tologist.htm

So, basically, here is your question. List all colleges and universities in the TOP 50, that offer at least some of these as majors. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am starting at NYU this fall and I know they have an undergraduate major in Neural Science. Its an interdisciplinary major that combines neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neurophysiology with molecular and cell biology, mathematics and computation and human and animal behavior (ethology). Its a good, all-round major that doesn't specialize too heavily on neurobiology or neurochemistry but provides a balanced curriculum of all aspects of the neural sciences. Neural science is only offered at undergraduate level and only as a major (not a minor) at NYU.

NYU also has undergraduate and graduate majors in linguistics, the links to which I have provided below.

You may not want to overspecialize at this stage of your education; it seems a little pointless to me to have decided on a medical specialization even before declaring your undergraduate major. Most neuroscience programs will include neurobiology and neurochemistry, but you are very unlikely to find these as undergraduate majors. A major in biopsychology (or psychobiology) will cover the same topics (neurobiology and neurochemistry) with an intensive focus on human and animal behavior as regulated by the brain.

As for the Top 50 colleges, the rankings differ, but if you mean Top 50 national universities as listed by US News, then I am sure that most of the Ivies, and especially Cornell, will have a program you are interested in, as will many of the other universities ranked nationally. For example, Duke, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis, Brown, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Cal-Berkeley, USC, Tufts, Boston College, University of Washington et al will probably have a major or a minor in Neuroscience. You are unlikely to find such programs at the engineering/tech-oriented schools like Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer Polytechnic or Case Western Reserve, but Stanford, MIT and Caltech will probably offer something in this line as well.