2025 Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #41 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 doctor's degrees in neurobiology & neurosciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to neurobiology & neurosciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of neurobiology & neurosciences students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt neurobiology & neurosciences students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized neurobiology & neurosciences related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for neurobiology & neurosciences students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Neurobiology & Neurosciences Schools

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 Neurobiology & Neurosciences Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Neurobiology & Neurosciences in North Carolina

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in Neurobiology

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences needs to look into University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.More information about a doctorate in neurobiology & neurosciences from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC

10 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Wake Forest University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences. Wake Forest University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Winston-Salem.More information about a doctorate in neurobiology & neurosciences from Wake Forest University

Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	13
Virginia	127	14
Georgia	126	17
Mississippi	113	1
Louisiana	103	6
Tennessee	102	11
Alabama	98	13
South Carolina	91	2
Kentucky	87	1
West Virginia	49	5

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Neurobiology & Neurosciences Related Rankings by Major

One of 14 majors within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences area of study, Neurobiology & Neurosciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Neurobiology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Neurosciences	31

Most Popular Majors Related to Neurobiology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	48
Genetics	46
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	46
General Biology	45
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	40
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	40
Pharmacology & Toxicology	31
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	25
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	22
Zoology	10

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.