Neuroscience PhD

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Details

Departments

Neuroscience Graduate Program

Application Deadline

November 19, 2026

Degrees Awarded

Doctoral / PhD

Admit Terms

Fall

Degree Types

Ph.D.

GRE Requirements

Optional

Contact Information

Address

1 Barker Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3990

Overview

The Neuroscience PhD Program at UC Berkeley is a unique, diverse PhD training program that offers intensive, integrated training in multiple areas of neuroscience research. The program includes approximately 65 training faculty from the Neuroscience Department and HWNI faculty members in other allied departments on campus to provide broad expertise from molecular and cellular neuroscience to systems and computational neuroscience, to human cognitive neuroscience. We provide a highly interdisciplinary, intellectually dynamic training environment of coursework, research training, professional development, and mentoring, within a strong research program that produces fundamental advances in knowledge and novel techniques.