2024 Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #50 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 174 bachelor's degrees in neurobiology & neurosciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on neurobiology & neurosciences students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other neurobiology & neurosciences students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt neurobiology & neurosciences students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for neurobiology & neurosciences students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Neurobiology & Neurosciences in North Carolina

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

Top North Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in Neurobiology

1

Duke University
Durham, NC

73 Annual Graduates

$34,195 Median Starting Salary

$12,645 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences has to take a look at Duke University. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Durham.

Soon after graduating, neurobiology bachelor's recipients generally earn an average of $34,195 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in neurobiology & neurosciences from Duke University

2

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

93 Annual Graduates

$14,825 Median Student Debt

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in neurobiology & neurosciences. Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in neurobiology & neurosciences from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Best Neurobiology & Neurosciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	158
Georgia	224	377
Tennessee	220	273
Virginia	213	438
South Carolina	195	12
Kentucky	187	107
Alabama	184	88
Louisiana	171	162
Mississippi	169	14
Arkansas	167	6
West Virginia	147	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to Neurobiology

Neurobiology & Neurosciences is one of 14 different types of Biological & Biomedical Sciences programs to choose from.

Neurobiology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Neurosciences	174

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	3,443
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	211
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	209
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	105
Zoology	92
Genetics	43
Botany/Plant Biology	42
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	39
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	35
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	30

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.