Overview
Key facts
- The Neurosciences Graduate Program, at the University of California, San Diego, is an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, student-centered, research training program.
- Our top-ranked program provides training to an extremely high-quality pool of graduate students who share the goal of becoming the next generation of neuroscience leaders at all societal levels.
- The program encompasses over 150 affiliated research faculty laboratories distributed across more than fifteen academic and clinical science departments at UC San Diego, the School of Medicine, The Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, V.A. Medical Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
- The Neurosciences program at the University of California, San Diego combines broad-based intellectual scholarship and training, with focused, cutting-edge research cultivating experimental design, quantitatively rigorous data analysis, problem solving, and communication skills, yielding a wide breadth of foundational understanding in the fundamental principles and practice of all neurosciences. Our program leads the way on campus for the recruitment and retention of diverse students.
Professional development
- We guide the professional development of each student through intensive, personalized career advising, strong mentoring, and broad outreach and teaching opportunities. We provide unparalleled access to established world-leading research environments at all levels of discovery, exceptional young faculty, progressive curricula, and an outstanding record of placement for our graduates.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Neuroscience: Cellular, Molecular & Developmental;
- Neurosciences Research Rounds;
- Neurodynamics;
- Gene Therapy in Neuroscience;
- Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
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Disciplines
Medicine Neuroscience View 137 other PhDs in Medicine in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Payment of application fee.
- Uploaded transcripts: Scan the front and back side, even if the back is blank.
- Three letters of recommendation minimum.
- Resume/CV.
- Statement of Purpose (750 word limit): From your Statement of Purpose, we hope to get a sense of what drives and motivates your passion for neuroscience research. To that end, writing about how your interest in the field developed can be insightful.
- Research Statement (750 word limit): If you have research experience, describe how this has shaped your scientific thinking. What are the neuroscience research questions you have worked on in the past? What outstanding questions in neuroscience would like to address with your future research? Focus on the science and approach.
- Official English Language Proficiency scores (international applicants).
Tuition Fee
Living costs for San Diego
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Scholarships Information
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