Overview

Neuroscience is a discipline that probes one of the last biological frontiers in understanding ourselves. It asks fundamental questions about how the brain and nervous system work in the expression of behavior. As such, the field takes on a clear interdisciplinary character: All scientific levels of organization (behavioral, developmental, molecular, cellular, and systems) contribute to our understanding of the nervous system. Neuroscience has been a field of particularly active growth and progress for the past two decades, and it is certain to be an area where important and exciting developments will continue to occur. At Wesleyan University, the neurosciences are represented by the teaching and research activities of faculty members in the departments of biology, psychology, and chemistry.

The Neuroscience and Behavior (NS&B) curriculum is both comprehensive and provides diverse approaches to learning. Through lecture/seminars, lab-based methods courses, and hands-on research experience, students are afforded a rich educational experience. Unique among schools of comparative size, Wesleyan has small but active graduate programs leading to BA/MA and PhD degrees.

This attribute, together with the high success rate of faculty in obtaining research grant support, further enhances the education of undergraduates by providing additional mentoring, more research opportunities, and access to state-of-the-art laboratories.

Student Learning Goals

The program offers a curriculum that encourages fluency across multiple disciplines in the field of neuroscience and behavior. Immersion in this field requires thinking across multiple levels of analysis and an appreciation for how complex and broad questions can be made amenable to scientific inquiry. In terms of goals, they have three areas of knowledge that we expect all students to acquire by the time they have completed the NS&B major:

Structure: The parts and how they connect. Structural knowledge includes neural development, neuroanatomy, neurotransmitters, and the cell and molecular biology of the neuron.
Function: How the parts come together to produce systems. Such systems include various sensory, motor, and neuroendocrine systems. Knowledge concerning function is gained by studies of structures and studies of perception, learning and memory, behavior, and cognition.
Theory: Governing principles that can be proposed from all the above. Examples of theories include those that address the relationships between brain and behavior, articulate how brain structure and function changes over time, and explain cognitive and perceptual processes.

In addition, it is their goal that all students can skillfully apply and analyze knowledge gained from their studies. Statistics courses, lab-based methods courses, and/or direct experience in research projects serve this goal.

Programme Structure

Courses:

Principles of Biology I: Cell Biology and Molecular Basis of Heredity
Principles of Biology I--Laboratory
General Chemistry
Physics
Programming
Calculus

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Middletown, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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

English requirements

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130

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100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Completed Common Application or Coalition Application

Secondary School Report and official high school transcripts

Counselor Recommendation

Mid-year Grade Report

Two Teacher Evaluations

$55 Application Fee (non-refundable) or Fee Waiver

If you wish to submit your SAT or ACT as proof of English proficiency, you must submit all sections of the SAT or ACT.

A high degree of proficiency in English, as described below, must also be demonstrated.

A strong secondary school preparation in English, social science, science, mathematics, and a foreign language.

Candidates studying at schools outside the US who have taken national examinations for university admission (A levels, French Baccalaureate, ISC, International Baccalaureate, etc.) are expected to have achieved superior results.

Interviews are not required as part of the admissions process, but we encourage prospective students to arrange them if possible.

Tuition Fees

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72438 USD / year

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72438 USD / year

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72438 USD / year

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Living costs

Middletown

United States

1100 - 1600 USD / month

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