MSc Educational Neuroscience

The MSc program in Educational Neuroscience at University College London (UCL) is a full-time, one-year course that provides students with the opportunity to study the relationship between the brain and education. It combines neuroscience, psychology, and education to help you understand how children learn and how neuroscience can inform educational practices.Course Content: This course covers a range of areas that blend neuroscience and education, such as learning and teaching, typical and atypical development, emotional, behavioural regulation and self-regulation, and cognitive control and cognitive load, among others. The program also involves research projects that allow students to explore the links between neuroscience and education in-depth.Key Modules: Key modules in this course include Educational Neuroscience, Cognitive Development and Learning, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Design Educational Research, and Research Project and Dissertation in the field of Educational Neuroscience.Future Careers: Graduates of this course can pursue several career opportunities including becoming research scientists, teachers or education professionals, policy makers, or pursuing further academic research in the field of educational neuroscience. For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.