
Use this information as a place to start exploring your career interests. Review additional resources below and on the Feller Center's website.
Explore Career Paths
Start Planning
Explore Career Areas
Use the sample work areas (mentioned above) to start exploring career paths. The links below provide a short overview of the positions. Review more career areas related to this major as well as tips to succeed.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, a career title dictionary
- O*NET Online, the nation's primary source of occupational information
- Career assessment options, FOCUS2, Strong Interest Inventory, etc.
- Federal positions by major, research career titles with the federal government related to your major
- Vault Career Guides, browse 100’s of industry guides to gain inside tips
- Society for Neuroscience: NeuroJobs
- American Neurological Association: Career Center
Resources: Career Planning & Graduate School
Explore career path options with these event notes and contact alumni/employers:
- Careers in Mental Health Panel
- Neuroscience careers in consulting
- Careers in Neuroscience that are creative
- Neuroscience Careers: Health Policy & Outreach
- What can you do with a degree in neuroscience?
- Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience - What is the difference?
Explore resources:
- American Neurological Association - Find a mentor.
- Where Are the Neuroscience Jobs?
- News from the UMD Brain & Behavior Institute
- Vault Guide to Health Care Management Jobs
Start researching your career path of interest to identify the educational requirements. The resources below offer a brief overview of some graduate degree programs.
Careers in Neuroscience: so you want to be a graduate student? Notes from a virtual panel discussion at UMD.
Careers in Neuroscience: Do you want to be an … MD/PhD?, Notes from a virtual panel discussion with Q&A featuring MD, PHD candidates and graduates with interest in neuroscience.
What Can You Do With a PhD in Neuroscience? For those with PhD in neuroscience, there is an opportunity to shape the lives of future doctors and make medical breakthroughs that could cure neurological disorders. They will gain the skills and education needed to become neuroscientists and natural sciences managers. Acquiring a PhD typically takes 5-7 years.
Graduate School Resources:
- Non-Academic Careers for PhDs
- Learn about the MD/PhD program
- PhD level, professional write a lot, oversee research, some teach in academic. Read more about a Clinical Neuropsychology Degree.
- Reasons to Pursue a PhD, The Spike
Prepare to apply with tips from the the UMD Feller Center in BSOS
UMD Pre-Health Advising, offers guidance related graduate school
Application timeline, stay on track with your graduate school application
Fully Funded Master’s Programs in Psychology, ProFellow
Fully Funded PhD Programs in Neuroscience: provides a multi-year tuition waiver and stipend to all incoming students, ProFellow
Market Skills Developed: NEUR Major
Skills lead to jobs. Which skills do you possess?
- Assess your skills, abilities, interests, and values and explore how they relate to career options.
- Complete this skills inventory to get started.
Sample list of skills developed in class by Neuroscience majors:
- Communication skills
- Content in neuroscience and related disciplines
- Critical thinking
- Data analysis
- Interpretation
- Research methods
- Scientific approach to solving problems
Learn how to create a skill based resume: NEUR Resume Example.

Add to your skills with LinkedIn Learning's skill based videos.
Gain Experience
Sample list of opportunities: Start your search with these tips!
- Handshake - Check out job and internship openings for off-campus positions for UMD students.
- UMD Neuroscience Blog - Lists current opportunities.
- UMD Psychology Blog - Lists current opportunities.
- Nu Rho Si - Summer internship openings.
- UMD National Scholarships Office - Review a listing of opportunities for UMD students.
- UMD Resources
Prepare to apply: Tips to customize your resume, cover letter, etc.
Additional Options:
- Neuroscience internship listing - Programs located in the USA, by IBP.
- Neuropsychology Research Training Program @ Kennedy Krieger Institute - developed to offer experience in clinical psychological and neuropsychological research to undergraduate students. Two semesters long.
- Summer internships with NIH - Review the "Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience" department.
- Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities in Neuroscience - Listing by RIT.
- Summer Internships: Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), UMD | Seek undergraduates studying cognitive/neuroscience & psychology.
Pre-Health Interests: The Reed-Yorke Health Professionals Advising Office works with all current UMD students and alumni interested in pursuing a career in the health profession.
- Pre-Health Interest areas to explore.
- TeleShadowing, a free program offering pre-health students at universities around the globe virtual shadowing hours.
- The HPAO shares important information about events, volunteer opportunities, advising, and more: Sign Up
- Tips for locating entry level options in health care and student opportunities
Sample Options for BA/BS Fellowships: Usually are competitive opportunitites that range from a few months to 1 year in length, and are funded and hosted by a wide range of organizations including non-profits and NGOs, foundations, government agencies, universities, media organizations and companies.
Pro-Fellow offers a free database of opportunitites across the country.
PostBaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (Postbac IRTA/CRTA)- National Institutes of Health (NIH) | The NIH Postbac IRTA program provides recent college graduates who are planning to apply to graduate or professional (medical/dental/pharmacy) school an opportunity to spend one or two years performing full-time research at the NIH. Postbac IRTAs/CRTAs work side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. Applicants must be college graduates who received their bachelor’s degrees less than two years prior to the date they begin the program. The stipends for trainees are adjusted yearly. Applications are accepted year round.

This is a directory of internship sites that provide great industry experience for Psychology & Neuroscience majors. They are sorted by subfield in the tabs at the top of this page.
BSOS Students Gain Experience Through:
Build Connections
After researching career paths, consider talking with people working in your field of interest to gain inside information. The links below provide sample events where you may be able to meet professionals in your field of interest. Use these opportunities to learn more about your field of interest, establish new networking contacts, and informational interviews.
- Career Events for BSOS students
- University Career Center Event Calendar
- Terrapins Connect, is an online platform that allows students’ virtual access to UMD alumni who have volunteered to share industry specific information, conduct resume reviews, etc.
- Use LinkedIn to locate alumni & recruiters
- Intern for a Day, matches students with professionals working in a field of interest to shadow for the day or offer informational interviews
- TeleShadowing, a free program offering pre-health students at universities around the globe virtual shadowing hours.
- Get contact information: Employer & Industry notes for BSOS majors
Consider reviewing campus, state, and national related associations to access career path information.
- Society for Neuroscience
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Neurological Association
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- International Neuropsychological Society
- American Psychological Association
Interested in joining an organization as a student?
Nu Rho Psi is the only nationally-recognized honor society in the area of brain research. Review summer internship openings. Join the UMD chapter: NU RHO PSI UMD