Graduates of our program are superbly equipped for the next stage of their career, whether they plan to enter the field directly or pursue further education and training. The paths they choose are as varied as the interests that brought them to MIT. From medicine and computer science to K-12 education, robotics, artificial intelligence, and academia, BCS alumni can be found working in many different settings.  

Example careers of alumni who entered the Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience field:

• Pharmaceutical Scientist 
• Senior Research Scientist 
• Project Manager 
• Graduate school or medical school 

Example careers of alumni who entered the Systems Neuroscience field: 

• Data Scientist
• Research Technician
• Senior Business Analyst 
• Graduate school or medical school 

Example careers of our alumni who entered the Cognitive Science field: 

• Clinical Research Coordinator 
• Management Consultant 
• Analyst 
• Graduate school, medical school, or law school 

Example careers of alumni who entered the Computational Neuroscience field:

• Computational Neuroscientist 
• Software Developer 
• Computational Modeling and Machine Intelligence Scientist 
• Data Analytics Specialist 
• Graduate school