Neuroscience UCL

Overview

The Neuroscience MSci is designed to prepare you for a career in neuroscience research. Students can decide in year two whether they would like to follow the three-year BSc or the four-year MSci (conditional to marks).

The first year consists of introductory compulsory modules including two dedicated neuroscience modules exclusive for BSc and MSci neuroscience students. The combination of these modules will provide a secure foundation for future work and study. Taking modules alongside other students in the UCL Faculties of Life Sciences will give you insight into related disciplines.

Further core and optional modules in your second year will prepare you for the third and fourth year, in which you will select specialised options to suit your interests. We provide twenty five neuroscience-specific advanced modules on offer for both year three and four neuroscience students, all taught by top neuroscientists.

They cover all areas, including computational, molecular/cellular, systems, behavioural/cognitive and clinical Neuroscience. Examples include Neural Basis of Motivation and Learning, Foundations of Neuroinformatics, Neurobiology of Brain Injury and Disease and Sensory Systems: Biology & Disease, but there are many more.

What this course will give you

 University College London (UCL) multidisciplinary programme draws on expertise across all the Faculty of Life Sciences, in addition to the vast neuroscience community at UCL. All lectures are given by experts in the field and, as you progress, lectures will increasingly include current research. You will also use scientific publications, original papers and reviews for your studies.

As world leading practitioners of research based teaching, with over 1500 neuroscientists, we bring the best research minds from UCL, the Crick, the Sainsbury's Wellcome Centre and the Gatsby to teach our BSc and MSci students.

The foundation of your career

• Around half of our graduates choose to pursue further studies in neuroscience, or a related life science.
•  Some join one of the UCL MSc or PhD programmes, while others obtain PhD scholarships at major research centres worldwide. 
• Among other advantages, the MSci programme is intended to make it easier for graduates to enter PhD programmes at European centres of research excellence.