Second tier computational neuroscience programs?

[Randall Lin]

So I know the best: Columbia, UCSD, UCL, Harvard, MIT, UCSF, Princeton, NYU, Berkeley, UCLA.  

 

However, I'm not sure about my chances:

 

Caltech full-ride merit

physics major/computer science minor/premed

3.0/4.0

Three summers of research with Christof Koch and Gabriel Kreiman (both LORs)

Single neuron information theoretic measures
topology derived from STDP rules

visual selectivity and responsiveness in micro arrays (high resolution EcoGs)

 

Published high school research in computational evolutionary biology with Christoph Adami

 

GRE 163/163/4.0
GRE physics unknown yet (left quite a few blank though)

 

 

So I need to start looking at second tier programs, but since the field is pretty small, it's hard to tell.  Anybody have any recommendations?

Edited October 27, 2013 by Randall Lin

[Andrew Feist]

Hey! I'm looking to go into computational neuroscience too. You seem very qualified. Don't sell yourself short.

 

But I've done a lot of google searching and made a list. I'd like to comment that some of those schools dont have PhD programs in Computational Neuroscience, exactly.  They have PhD programs in related fields where you can do research and your thesis in it. I havent decided if thats a meaningful distinction yet. But right now I'm focusing on programs which do.

 

Here are some other programs which you havent named, some may not be second tier, but some are.

UChicago, BU, UPenn, Stanford (not second tier), Univ Texas, Carnegie Melon, USC, Univ Minnesota, Waterloo, Washington State.

 

This is close to an exhaustive of a list for explicit computational neuroscience program as I could make from google. Unfortunately its still a small field. But there are more schools, which you could into AI or Systems Neuroscience or Biophysics or w/e and do your research/thesis in computational neuroscience, i think.  I.E. Washington University: http://compneuro.washington.edu/graduate/ the description there, i think, gives a very common approach to the field, and explains why there are so few programs.

 

Please add if you know more

Edited July 28, 2014 by Andrew Feist