Careers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Behavioral Neuroscience prepares students for a wide range of career paths. Since neuroscience is a highly interdisciplinary field, students learn to incorporate knowledge from many levels, providing students with a wide range of career options. Some careers may require graduate degrees, but there are many career opportunities for students with Bachelor's degrees
Careers Requiring a Doctoral-Level Degree
- Medicine 1
- Research Scientist
- Pharmacist 2
- Dentist 3
- Veterinarian 5
- Clinical Psychologist
- Professor
- Neuropsychologist
Master's Level Careers
- Neuroimaging Technician
- Physician's Assistant
- Genetic Counselor
- Epidemiology
- Occupational Therapist 4
- Biostatistician
- Speech-Language Pathologist
- Public Health
Bachelor's Level Careers (*Additional coursework to pursue these careers)
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Laboratory Technician
- Regulatory Affairs Specialist
- Medical Technician*
- Science Writer
- Clinical Research Assistant
- Science Advocacy
- Patient Care Assistant*
- Health Educator
- EEG Technologist*
- Lab Animal Care Technician
- Medical and Healthcare Manager
- Pharmacy Technician*
- Medicine
- Requires ~10 additional courses
- Mostly BMS and CHM courses
- Medical School CLAS Advising Resources
- Pharmacist
- Requires ~10 additional courses
- Mostly BMS and CHM courses
- Pharmacy School CLAS Advising Resources
- Dentist
- Requires ~10 additional courses
- Mostly BMS and CHM courses
- Dental School CLAS Advising Resources
- Occupational therapist
- Requires ~4 additional courses
- Mostly BMS courses
- Occupational Therapist Prerequisite Courses
- Veterinarian
- Requires ~10 additional courses
- Mostly BMS and CHM courses
- Vet School Class Advising Resources
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