Overview

Neuroscience is a new, exciting, and rapidly expanding scientific discipline that aims to understand how physical processes in our brains underlie complex functions such as movement, sensation, memory, emotion, consciousness and thought.

Faculty and students in Neuroscience are particularly interested in how diseases that affect the brain lead to mental health problems, with the focus of our research including depression, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease and concussion.

Our research, like our academic programs, integrates information from many disciplines including medicine, molecular biology, psychology, immunology, genetics, chemistry and epidemiology.

The Neuroscience and Mental Health BSc program at Carleton University can be taken as an Honours, Major, General or Minor program. Neuroscience (Combined Honours) is also available for students wanting more emphasis on advanced biology courses.

Future opportunities

A Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and Mental Health or Neuroscience provides the basic knowledge and experience for a wide range of employment opportunities. Many of our Neuroscience students have found careers as researchers in a wide range of government, industrial and medical laboratories, as teachers, and in publishing, advertising, marketing, sales and private business consultancies.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Neuroscience of Mental Health and Psychiatric Disease

Neuroscience of Mental Health and Neurological Disease

Research Methods in Neuroscience

Statistics in Neuroscience

Techniques in Neuroscience

Scientific Writing in Neuroscience

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-01 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-01-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-15 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-11-15 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

20 alternative credits

For 20.0 credit Major degrees, at least 3.0 credits in the major and at the 2000-level or above.

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ottawa, Canada

Disciplines

Psychology Neuroscience View 152 other Bachelors in Psychology in Canada

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

You will need a secondary school or high school graduation certificate. Education should normally consist of a minimum of 12 years of study.

You will need to present transcripts from your senior high school along with your graduation diploma or certificate, and any graduation exam results.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

36992 CAD / year

≈ 36992 CAD / year
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

8139 CAD / year

≈ 8139 CAD / year

Additional Details

Ontario Tuition Fee: 7291 CAD per year

Living costs

Ottawa

Canada

1168 - 1925 CAD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Scholarships Information

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