Association of Neuroscience Departments
and Programs

The 1998 ANDP Survey of Neuroscience 
Graduate & Postdoctoral Programs

Lesly Huffman and Robert E. Fellows, MD, PhD, University of Iowa College of Medicine
Ronald I. Schoenfeld, PhD, Deputy Director, Office of Science Policy, NIMH

Introduction

The Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) carries out periodic surveys of graduate and postdoctoral training in North America in order to obtain a current 'snapshot' of training activities and to identify developing trends affecting neuroscience education broadly.  Previous surveys, conducted in 1986 by Dr. Michael Zigmond, University of Pittsburgh and in 1991, by Dr. Linda Spear, SUNY-Binghamton, have provided important data on the status of neuroscience graduate training in the U.S. that established the background and format for the current survey.¹

Methods

This report provides information on graduate programs in the U.S. obtained from a survey carried out by Lesly Huffman and Dr. Robert Fellows between June and December, 1998.  The survey questionnaire was posted on the ANDP web site (www.andp.org/survey), and 189 doctoral graduate programs with membership in ANDP were asked to complete and submit data electronically or in hard copy.  Completed questionnaires were received for 90 neuroscience departments and programs, a response rate of 48%.  Several programs too new to have historical data were not included in the analysis.  These reflect the continuing increase in neuroscience departments and programs.  Results were entered into an Access database for subsequent analysis.

Results

(1) Zigmond, M.J. and Spear, L.P. Neuroscience training in the USA and Canada: observations and suggestions, TINS 15:379-383, 1992.

Participating Institutions

(If you have questions about this report, please email them to Lesly Huffman, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa.)

February 22, 2007

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