Brain & Cognitive Sciences Majors Guide
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to apply and integrate fundamental scientific principles
- Research & laboratory experience
- Strong quantitative skills
- Attentive to detail
- Effective communicator - present information clearly and effectively
- Apply and integrate fundamental scientific principles
- Statistical analysis skills
- Analytic thinking and complex problem-solving ability
- Use of technical tools and scientific equipment
Areas of Expertise
| Artificial Intelligence |
Neurobiology |
| Cognitive Neuroscience |
Neuropharmacology |
| Cognitive Science |
Neuropsychology |
| Computational Neuroscience |
Neuroscience |
| Linguistics |
Psychology |
| Molecular & Cellular Nueroscience |
Systems Neuroscience |
Possible Fields
- Medicine: health care, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, kinesiology
- Government: science and technology policy, patent law
- Education: scientific research, teaching
- Industry: information techonology
- Information Science: libraries, museums
- Scientific Writing: publishing, journalism
Possible Careers
| Behavioral Neuroscientist |
Neuroimmunologist |
| Biomedical Science Journalist |
Neuroimaging Technician |
| Child Psychologist |
Neuropharmacologist |
| Counseling Psychologist |
Neurophysiologist |
| Computation |
Neuropsychologist |
| Ergonomics |
Neuroscientist |
| Environmental Design |
Pharmaceutical Representative |
| Forensic Psychologist |
Professor |
| Geriatric Psychologist |
Research Administrator |
| Government Adviser |
Robotics |
| Intellisense |
Science Teacher |
| Laboratory Manager |
Sports Psychologist |
| Molecular Biologist |
Substance Abuse Counselor |
| Neurochemist |
Telecommunications |
Sample Careers of MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences Alumni
- Professor of Psychology, Clark University
- Staff Consultant, Price Waterhouse & Co.
- Research Fellow, Mass General Hospital
- Development Scientist, Ascent Technologies
- Neuropsychologist, Psychology Assessment Center
- President, University of Richmond
- VP Research, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
- Research Psychologist, US Naval Submarine Med Research Lab
- Manager LNS Cell & Molecular Biology, Bristol-Myers Co.
- Assoc Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Med. University of So. Carolina
- Attorney, Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays
- Director of Product Development, Vimrx Pharmaceuticals
- Analyst, Goldman-Sachs
- Senior Staff Fellow, Natl. Eye Inst., Lab of Sensorimotor Res
- Managing Editor, Next Wave/Science Magazine
- Mathematics Teacher, Providence Day School
- Pediatrician, Kaiser Permanente Oakland
- Advanced Computing Technologist, Boeing
To contact alumni in your area of interest, check out the ICAN network at http://alum.mit.edu/cs/ican/
Companies and Organizations That Have Hired Brain & Cognitive Science Majors
| Alkermes, Inc. |
Creative BioMolecules, Inc. |
| Apollo BioPharmaceutics, Inc. |
Eisai Research Institute |
| Cambridge NeuroScience, Inc. |
Professional Associations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, http://www.aaas.org/
- American Medical Association, http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American Physiological Society, http://www.the-aps.org/
- American Psychological Association, http://www.apa.org/
- American Psychological Society, http://www.psychologicalscience.org/
- Association for Computing Machinery, http://info.acm.org/
- The Biochemical Society, http://www.biochemsoc.org.uk/default.htm
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society, http://www.cogneurosociety.org
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, http://www.ieee-nns.org
- International Society for Neurochemistry, http://www.umich.edu/~neurchem/isn.html
Career and Job Search Internet Resources
Print Resources
- Fiske, Peter S., Ph.D., Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Guide for Scientists, Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 2000.
- Peters, Robert L. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
- Robbins-Roth, Cynthia. Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower. Academic Press, 1998.
- Rosen, Stephen, and Paul, Celia, Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals, Academic Press, 1997.
MIT Connections
Salary
Next Steps
- Visit the Careers Office in 12-170 or call 253-4733 to schedule an appointment with a counselor in the School of Science to discuss career choices.
- Network with current students and alumni in your area of interest.
Last updated on
Monday, September 18, 06 at 01:34:05 PM EDT.
