MSc Clinical Neuroscience UCL vs KCL?

Hi, I currently have offers for this course at UCL and King's and am trying to decide where to go. I've been hearing negative feedback about the UCL course which is putting me off. I was wondering if your friend ended up completing the degree

Hello, I'm not the 'friend' mentioned in the above post (sorry) but I'm currently doing an MSc Clinical Neuroscience at UCL. To be entirely honest, I wished I had someone to tell me what the course was like before I enrolled! It's hard to say what the 'standards' are as it is so different now with online learning due to Covid. Though, I have to say I am quite disappointed at how it is run/ managed. But it may be unfair to pinpoint issues as it is specific to the online learning. I have friends who were on the course before Covid and they quite enjoyed it.

RE supervisors, i actually love my project supervisor and personal tutor! They are super helpful. I think this is subjective as who you get as a supervisor (as it is essentially who you choose) but if things don't work out, there are always people on the course to help you out i.e. the management team or course co-directors (they are super responsive). E.g. my friend who was on the course 2 years ago, her supervisor was unresponsive to her emails for a few weeks but she managed to get help from the course directors to intervene – so on that score, you can definitely find help and support. Also, a large number of lecturers/ supervisors are clinicians so they have other commitments as well.

RE workload, it is intense but it is as expected. The MSc Clinical Neuroscience course is a highly specialised and niche course. Depending on your background, the topics can be quite advanced. But I suppose thats the point of a Master's after all!

I chose to do this course at UCL because of UCL's excellent world-class reputation in neuroscience research. Hopefully during your time, students can be allowed to be at university, because UCL Queen Square (where the MSc Clin. Neuro. course is based) is absolutely amazing! I hope this helps and I'm happy to answer further questions if you have any. Oh and congratulations on your offer!

This is so helpful thank you so much!

I also want to do this course at UCL’s because of the university’s amazing reputation, especially in neuroscience research, so I was really surprised to hear the negative feedback about the management of the course.

My biggest worry was that the supervisors wouldn’t be responsive, so it’s reassuring to hear that the management team and course co-directors are super responsive and that your supervisor is really helpful!

For the price I’m paying, I really want to make sure the course is right for me. However, that’s difficult at the moment because I can’t visit the campus or attend open days.

I just have a couple of questions:

- Does the course only cover neurological disorders, or are both neurological and psychiatric disorders covered?
- How have you found the assessments?

Thank you again!

Thank you for answering the questions

Some other Clinical Neuroscience courses I looked at cover both neurological and psychiatric disorders, so I was curious.

I had a look at the assessments and thought they sounded really difficult (especially because I'm currently in the third year of my Biomedical Science degree and we haven't covered much neuroscience expect for one module), and I know UCL must have really high standards when it comes to marking, which is something I was worried about. But like you said, it's only 6 months of classes and the exams are only during April-May, and then there's just the research project to do.

That would be really helpful! thank you so much

Good luck on your exams btw!

There is one module in first term called Basic Neuroscience which covers a very wide range of topics. As the name suggestions, the purpose of this module is to give a foundation to neuroscience. It's an intense module as it is loaded with a lot of information. I thought it was far from 'basic' lol but it was really helpful in giving me an understanding of core concepts and topics in neuroscience.

I've also sent you a direct message! Feel free to reply to me there.

Hiya, I am also considering this masters as well as the Dementia Msc and the translational neuroscience MRes. If you'd still be happy to discuss your degree a bit more with me I'd be super grateful if you would be dm me! Your comments so far have been so helpful already!

There is one module in first term called Basic Neuroscience which covers a very wide range of topics. As the name suggestions, the purpose of this module is to give a foundation to neuroscience. It's an intense module as it is loaded with a lot of information. I thought it was far from 'basic' lol but it was really helpful in giving me an understanding of core concepts and topics in neuroscience.

I've also sent you a direct message! Feel free to reply to me there.

I'm so happy to have found this thread! I've got an offer for UCL MSc Clinical Neuroscience coming Sept and I'm quite pumped about it.

I was wondering if you would be so kind to dm me to talk more about your experience in this course? Maybe regarding the optional modules choice and syllabus because the website's really doesn't go into much detail (I'm esp interested in the Genetic Technologies one).

I'm doing the MSc as my MBBS intercalation and I want to be absolutely prepped for it! Indeed the above responses have been really helpful haha

I'm so happy to have found this thread! I've got an offer for UCL MSc Clinical Neuroscience coming Sept and I'm quite pumped about it.

I was wondering if you would be so kind to dm me to talk more about your experience in this course? Maybe regarding the optional modules choice and syllabus because the website's really doesn't go into much detail (I'm esp interested in the Genetic Technologies one).

I'm doing the MSc as my MBBS intercalation and I want to be absolutely prepped for it! Indeed the above responses have been really helpful haha

Hey Can I ask when your application was submitted and when you received your offer?

Applied January, got my response a few days back. Think they have a backlog of applications to process this year due to work-from-home arrangements, some responses have been delayed.

Hello, I'm not the 'friend' mentioned in the above post (sorry) but I'm currently doing an MSc Clinical Neuroscience at UCL. To be entirely honest, I wished I had someone to tell me what the course was like before I enrolled! It's hard to say what the 'standards' are as it is so different now with online learning due to Covid. Though, I have to say I am quite disappointed at how it is run/ managed. But it may be unfair to pinpoint issues as it is specific to the online learning. I have friends who were on the course before Covid and they quite enjoyed it.

RE supervisors, i actually love my project supervisor and personal tutor! They are super helpful. I think this is subjective as who you get as a supervisor (as it is essentially who you choose) but if things don't work out, there are always people on the course to help you out i.e. the management team or course co-directors (they are super responsive). E.g. my friend who was on the course 2 years ago, her supervisor was unresponsive to her emails for a few weeks but she managed to get help from the course directors to intervene – so on that score, you can definitely find help and support. Also, a large number of lecturers/ supervisors are clinicians so they have other commitments as well.

RE workload, it is intense but it is as expected. The MSc Clinical Neuroscience course is a highly specialised and niche course. Depending on your background, the topics can be quite advanced. But I suppose thats the point of a Master's after all!

I chose to do this course at UCL because of UCL's excellent world-class reputation in neuroscience research. Hopefully during your time, students can be allowed to be at university, because UCL Queen Square (where the MSc Clin. Neuro. course is based) is absolutely amazing! I hope this helps and I'm happy to answer further questions if you have any. Oh and congratulations on your offer!

Hello, I'm not the 'friend' mentioned in the above post (sorry) but I'm currently doing an MSc Clinical Neuroscience at UCL. To be entirely honest, I wished I had someone to tell me what the course was like before I enrolled! It's hard to say what the 'standards' are as it is so different now with online learning due to Covid. Though, I have to say I am quite disappointed at how it is run/ managed. But it may be unfair to pinpoint issues as it is specific to the online learning. I have friends who were on the course before Covid and they quite enjoyed it.

RE supervisors, i actually love my project supervisor and personal tutor! They are super helpful. I think this is subjective as who you get as a supervisor (as it is essentially who you choose) but if things don't work out, there are always people on the course to help you out i.e. the management team or course co-directors (they are super responsive). E.g. my friend who was on the course 2 years ago, her supervisor was unresponsive to her emails for a few weeks but she managed to get help from the course directors to intervene – so on that score, you can definitely find help and support. Also, a large number of lecturers/ supervisors are clinicians so they have other commitments as well.

RE workload, it is intense but it is as expected. The MSc Clinical Neuroscience course is a highly specialised and niche course. Depending on your background, the topics can be quite advanced. But I suppose thats the point of a Master's after all!

I chose to do this course at UCL because of UCL's excellent world-class reputation in neuroscience research. Hopefully during your time, students can be allowed to be at university, because UCL Queen Square (where the MSc Clin. Neuro. course is based) is absolutely amazing! I hope this helps and I'm happy to answer further questions if you have any. Oh and congratulations on your offer!

Hey thanks god i found this post
I am a chevening scholar from thailand planning to attend msc clinical neuroscience as well. I have my background in a medical field ( md) and planning to enter residency program in ybailand afterward. I kinda have to make a decision between clinical neuroscience in ucl or clinical neurology in sheffiled. Can you please dm me i have so many questions for you.

I have a few questions if you don't mind me PMing you. i was made an offer for MSc clin. neuro at UCL and MSc Neuro at KCL and I thought i wasn't gonna find difficulty choosing (was very much leaning towards UCL), but lately i've been double thinking especially after reading these reviews. Please if you may i really wanna get some more insight