- The MSc in Neuroscience and Education at Columbia University is a 1-year program.
- This was the first graduate program in the country to focus on the educational and clinical implications of recent advances in understanding brain-behavior relationships.
The program is designed to prepare a new kind of specialist:- A professional with dual preparation able to bridge the gap between research underlying brain, cognition, and behavior
- Problems encountered in schools and other applied fields
- Students may also enter this program in preparation for further study in neuroscience and allied fields.
- Some of the main topics students learn through this program are:
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Systems Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Neuroscience and Education
- Neuroscience methods and many more
- Students have developed careers in research labs, and others have become consultants or entered careers in educational software development.
- The student-faculty ratio of this college is 6:1.
- The acceptance rate of Columbia University is 5.8%.
- Columbia University is ranked #19 in QS Global World Rankings 2021.