NOTE: Our program has made the GRE General Test optional for admission to the fall 2021 class. You may submit scores if you have them, and they will be considered by the admissions committee. Applications without GRE scores will be given equal consideration.
There are two ways to receive training in cognitive neuroscience at Duke. A student can be directly admitted to P&N, to work with a specific mentor (1st option depicted in the figure above). A student can also be admitted to the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting program, which does not immediately match students to a particular lab. Instead, students rotate through several labs before matching with a mentor in their second year and transferring to a departmental PhD program at the beginning of the third year. Admission to a departmental PhD program is not automatic; it requires a mutual match with a PhD supervisor.
If you are interested in option 2, please read more about the CNAP program on the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences website.