Prospective Students - Graduate

Neuroscience

Areas of Study and Research

Tracks are available in the areas of behavioral genetics; behavioral neuroscience; cognitive neuroscience; environmental, population and organismic biology; kinesiology and applied physiology; molecular, cellular and developmental biology; and speech, language, and hearing sciences.

Degrees Offered

PhD
PhD Students maintain a dual affiliation with their home department and the neuroscience program. Each student pursuing the neuroscience degree completes a set of common core courses, as well as depth requirements in neuroscience, with the remaining courses being specific to their track and home department affiliation. In addition to course requirements students must successfully pass a comprehensive exam, complete a minimum of 30 dissertation credits, and successfully defend the dissertation.

Admission

Graduate School Minimum Admissions Standards
Individual graduate departments may have additional or more restrictive standards by which they evaluate graduate applicants. However, the Graduate School at CU-Boulder has established minimum standards for graduate admission. Applicants must:

1. Hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, or have done work equivalent to that required for such a degree.
   
2. Show promise of ability to pursue advanced study and research, as judged by the student’s scholastic record.
   
3. Have adequate preparation to enter graduate study in the chosen field.
   
4. Have at least a 2.75 (2.00=C) undergraduate grade point average. Note: Applicants who cannot meet this undergraduate standard may still secure regular admission if they have completed 12 semester hours of relevant graduate course work with at least a 3.25 average.
   

Neuroscience Admissions Requirements
Applicants must:

1. Be matriculated at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
2. Be in good standing in a PhD degree program of an appropriate home department.

Financial Support Available
At present, all forms of financial support, including Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships, are awarded by the home departments. As Training Grants for Neuroscience are funded, this will change to a limited degree.

Application Information and Deadlines All students must first be admitted to a PhD program in a "home" department (Psychology, EPOB, MCDB, etc.). Once such students have matriculated and are in good standing with their home department, they are eligible to apply to the Neuroscience PhD program.

Contact Information

University of Colorado at Boulder
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Room D244 Muenzinger Psychology Bldg
Box 345 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0345
Phone: 303-492-7034
Fax: 303-492-2967
Email: neuroscience@colorado.edu
website: www.Colorado.EDU/neuroscienceprogram/