The University of Missouri Graduate School has some minimum requirements for GPA and GRE scores.
Learn MoreWe receive about 20-25 applications per year. Virtually all of our INP graduate students are financially supported by their faculty advisor’s research grants, and so the number of students accepted each year varies and depends on the availability of grant funding to support new students.
We strongly suggest that you look over our list of faculty and contact those faculty with whom you are most interested in working to determine if they are interested in accepting you into their lab for the current application cycle (i.e. they have an opening in their lab and they have grants funds available to support you).
Chair of Graduate Recruitment Committee
573-882-6081
BeversdorfD@health.missouri.edu
Director of INP
573-884-8805
GillisK@missouri.edu
If you are interested in the Ph.D. degree, you should apply to enter that program initially. We do not require completion of an M.A. to enter the Ph.D. program.
The Graduate School requires a minimum of 72 credit hours for completion of the Doctoral degree. The Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program requires a certain number of these courses to be at the 8000 level or above (excluding research problems and thesis research).
Core courses are broadly divided into two groups: cellular/molecular and system/behavior. Ph.D. students will select one from each group and M.S. student will select one from either group.
Note: Other neuroscience courses may be offered from time-to-time and, if appropriate, may be substituted for the above courses upon approval by the INP.
Download a PDF of the course requirements: INP_Curriculum-revised 7-2016
New students who have not yet selected mentors are encouraged to complete research rotations in two to three labs during their first year. Rotations, which may last about 3 months each, are designed to acquaint students with the diverse research strengths among INP faculty as well as the different techniques of established investigators.
Core courses are broadly divided into two groups: cellular/molecular and system/behavior. Ph.D. students will select one from each group and M.S. student will select one from either group.
Note: Other neuroscience courses may be offered from time-to-time and, if appropriate, may be substituted for the above courses upon approval by the INP.
Download a PDF of the course requirements: INP_Curriculum
New students who have not yet selected mentors are encouraged to carry out rotations (often 3 months each but can be tailored to a student’s needs).
First, before you can fill out a Plan of Study from for these neuroscience certificates, you must physically reside in Columbia, MO and be currently enrolled at the University of Missouri (MU), either as a non-INP graduate student (e.g. in Biology, Psychology, etc.) or as a post-bac student. The certificates are not obtainable via online courses or “distance learning” type arrangements.
Second, financial aid is not available from the INP for the neuroscience certificates.