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Neuroscience at Harvard

Harvard graduates about 100 neuroscience majors a year, 6% of its graduating class. That puts it 1st of 275 schools we score for neuroscience, a standout program at 97 out of 100. Research spending in the field runs about $455 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

97/100Standout#1 of 275 for neuroscience →
Graduates a year1006% of the class
Median pay 4 years out$47,000
Research in the field$455Ma year, NSF
Admit rate4%whole school
SAT middle 50%1490–1580whole school

Around Harvard

A rack for locking electric scooters outside Cabot Science Library at Harvard Un
Electric scooter rack outside Cabot Science Library Harvard Feb 2025Photo: 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0 · source
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Gregorian telescope circa 1735 in Putnam Gallery, 2009-11-24Photo: Sage Ross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Where neuroscience happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Engineering Sciences Lab, Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 130 · Dorm 62 · Student housing 22 · Arts 6 · Library 6 · Chapel 4.

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Nearby in the neuroscience ranking

  1. Yale University 97
  2. Stanford University 97
  3. University of Pennsylvania 96
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 96

Other strong majors at Harvard

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Harvard with every school we score in neuroscience. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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