Admission Requirements

• Applicants who wish to enrol in the collaborative specialization must apply to and be admitted to both the collaborative specialization and a graduate degree program in one of the collaborating units.

Specialization Requirements

• The thesis topic must be in the neuroscience area.

• The student's supervisor must be a core faculty member of the Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience.

• All PhD students must complete at least 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) course, such as JNR1444Y Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Cellular and Molecular, or JNS1000Y Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Systems and Behaviour, or one of several additional courses in cognitive psychology or imaging, or neuroscience-related course to be determined by the collaborative specialization committee and posted on the Neuroscience website in July of each year.

• The student must attend and present their work as first author at the Annual Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience Research Day at least twice.

• The student must complete NEU2000H Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture Series (Doctoral) by attending at least 70% of the lectures in the CPIN Distinguished Lectureship Series (including the Julius Axelrod Distinguished Visiting Neuroscientist Lecture) or CPIN Emerging Leaders in Neuroscience Lecture Series, during three academic years (or a minimum of 21 lectures in total over the program). As part of the seminar series, the student must present his/her work at least twice at the CPIN Research Day.

• MSc or MA students who have completed the Neuroscience specialization and who wish to continue on to complete at the doctoral level must register in NEU2000H Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture Series (Doctoral) and fulfil the doctoral requirements.