Neurosciences is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #81 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Neurosciences Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 306 degrees in neurosciences annually.
The neurosciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Neurosciences rankings. For our Best Overall Neurosciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Neurosciences Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the neurosciences degrees they offer, see the list below.
Duke University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in neurosciences. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were roughly 109 neurosciences students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent year we have data available.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a good choice for students interested in a degree in neurosciences. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill. This university ranks 2nd out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 159 neurosciences students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year.
Wake Forest University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in neurosciences. Wake Forest University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Winston-Salem. This university ranks 3rd out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 17 neurosciences students who graduated with this degree at Wake Forest University in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The neurosciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Neurosciences rankings. For our Best Overall Neurosciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
