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Wellesley's neuroscience majors graduate with a liberal arts background coupled with sufficient concentration in this specialized field to be competitive among students coming from exclusively research-oriented institutions.

Sixty percent of our graduates go from Wellesley to medical school. Our graduates are also well prepared for advanced degrees in areas including psychology, biochemistry, bio-technology, pharmacology, and bio-engineering. Approximately 15% continue on with graduate work in neuroscience, psychology, or neuropsychology; and approximately 10% pursue careers that intersect with neuroscience - for example, patent law or work in the biotech industry." Graduates in these areas are in demand and performing valuable work.

Entrance level positions with an undergraduate degree in neuroscience are also available in biomedical research laboratories as technicians, in pharmaceutical or health product companies as marketing or sales representatives, and in federal, state, and local public health programs as health analysts or managers.

Students with graduate degrees in Neuroscience are in demand for faculty positions in medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing and veterinary schools, in addition to Liberal Arts colleges a Research Universities. Career opportunities in research and administration include research and administrative positions in government laboratories such as the National Institutes of Health, in private research foundations, and in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries.

Graduates also can pursue employment oppottunities in government regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and in industrial organizations interacting with these agencies.