Dear colleagues,

As a faculty member in one of the top psychology programs, we know you mentor some outstanding students who are interested in graduate school - and we'd love to meet them. This email can be forwarded to students you feel would be a good fit for our UCI Ph.D. program in cognitive sciences.

If we can help answer any questions along the way - either from yourself or your students - please don't hesitate to get in touch. And thank you for your commitment to student mentorship and success!

Sincerely,
UCI School of Social Sciences Graduate Affairs
 
 
 


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Solena Mednicoff
 
 
arrow Solena Mednicoff, ’21 cognitive sciences Ph.D., combined her passions at UCI
to study how music affects the brain. Now she's a postdoc at UNLV studying misophonia.
anteater
 
 
 
 
 
University of California, Irvine:
Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences
 
A programmatic powerhouse. Full financial aid and funding. A lens-worthy location. The reasons students choose the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences for their graduate pursuits are many.

The UCI graduate program administered by the school's cognitive sciences department offers students five years of guaranteed funding.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
university doing the most for the American dream


-The New York Times College Access Index
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
"coolest school" for sustainability efforts


 
-Sierra Club Magazine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
best public university in the U.S.

 
-U.S. News & World Report
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
OUR PROGRAM
 
Scholars in the department have a proven track record of earning competitive research funding from national agencies - including the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health - and from campus-level fellowships. For 2020-21, the school brought in nearly $5.3M in external grant funding.
 
About 66% of those funds - approximately $3.51M - were awarded to cognitive sciences faculty.

Faculty in the department publish regularly in the field's top academic journals, and graduate students have incredible opportunities to publish alongside them.
 
 
 
 
 
LOCATION
 
Campus is located less than 10 miles from Newport Beach.
 
 
FUNDING
 
Admitted students receive 5 years of guaranteed funding.
 
 
CENTERS & LABS
 
The department collaborates with 6 centers/institutes and has over 23 labs dedicated to research.
 
 
 
DEGREE
 
Ph.D.; a master's degree may be earned while in pursuit of the Ph.D.
 
 
ENROLLMENT
 
Full-time, on-campus with housing.
 
 
CONCENTRATION
JOINT PROGRAM
 
Concentration in cognitive neuroscience & joint M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in cognitive sciences.
 
 
 
 
recent
JOB PLACEMENTS
 
  • Apple
  • Army Research Labs
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Google
  • Johns Hopkins University
 
  • Mind Research Network
  • Navy Research Labs
  • Rutgers University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Zurich
  • Yale University
 
 
aldrich park
arrow UCI's campus is beautiful, rotating around Aldrich Park, a 19-acre botanical garden.
The campus is also less than 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean and beaches.
 
what makes us
UNIQUE
 
The cognitive sciences department at UCI uses a combination of innovative approaches with modern tools to study fundamental human abilities including attention, memory, language, decision making, and problem solving.

Graduate research specialties include:
  • Computational and mathematical cognitive modeling
  • Cognitive neuroscience (a concentration is offered in this topic)
  • Visual and auditory perception
  • Attention and representation
  • Learning and development
  • Memory and language
  • Judgment and decision making
Students work together with faculty advisors who are highly experienced in the use of leading technologies such as EEG, fMRI, and robotics, and of modern research tools such as computational methods, big data, and Bayesian statistics.

And, students have an opportunity to earn a master's degree in cognitive sciences, cognitive neuroscience, or statistics (depending on the program) while in pursuit of their Ph.D.

Graduate students from UCI's cognitive sciences program have gone on to work in high-tech and research consultancy companies; government, science, and technology labs; and in professorial posts around the world.

The UCI campus is located less than 10 miles from Newport Beach, is the #1 university doing the most for the American dream (New York Times College Access Index), the #1 university for beach lovers (Money Magazine) and the #9 ranked public university in the U.S. (U.S. News & World Report).

If full funding, opportunities to publish, and a proven track record of excellence in the field are what you're looking for, contact us today to learn more about UCI's graduate program in cognitive sciences.

 


So what are you waiting for?
 
apply
TODAY
 
online application
 
 
 
contacts in
UCI COG SCI
 
Ramesh Srinivasan
Department Chair
r.srinivasan@uci.edu | 949.824.2969

Joachim Vandekerckhove
Graduate Program Director
joachim@uci.edu | 949.824.5958
 
Jennifer Gerson
Graduate Advisor
gersonja@uci.edu | 949.824.4074