Neuroscience advisors are available to support all students within the Neuroscience major and minor. Advisors offer 30-minute advising appointments and virtual drop-in advising sessions to current UCLA undergraduate students. Please contact your assigned College Counseling Unit regarding College/University requirements, graduation and long-term degree planning, and major/minor exploration outside of Neuroscience. Please contact the respective School/departmental advisors for inquiries regarding other majors and minors.

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Fall 2025 Academic Advising

Please see below for information on getting in touch with our advising office during the fall quarter. Please note that our office is currently short-staffed, so we kindly ask for your patience in communicating with our office as our program works to hire a new academic advisor.

Email

The best method of contacting our advising office is via email. Please email neurosci@ucla.edu with any inquiries. For UCLA students, please ensure to include your UID in your email correspondence.

Note: We aim to respond to all email inquiries as soon as possible, however please allow for up to 2-3 business days to receive a response.

30-Minute Advising Appointments

Students can schedule a 30-minute advising appointment for in-depth inquiries that require a longer meeting. Advising appointments are available Monday – Friday, and are offered remotely and in-person (depending on advisor availability throughout the week). Appointment slots for the upcoming week are released on Fridays. Please check the booking site consistently for openings if there are none immediately available. Our advising office is busy especially during peak times of the quarter (e.g., beginning of the quarter, enrollment periods, etc.), so if you are unable to schedule an advising appointment, please consider emailing us or attending virtual drop-in hours.

To schedule a 30-minute advising appointment, please visit our booking site.

Note: Please plan to join your scheduled advising appointment on time and prepared. We offer a 10-minute grace period, however students must reschedule the advising appointment once the grace period has passed.

Appointment Cancelations

If you are unable to attend your scheduled advising appointment, please cancel the appointment via the booking site at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled appointment time. If you are unable to cancel the appointment manually, please email neurosci@ucla.edu as soon as possible.

Virtual Drop-In Advising

Virtual advising drop-in hours are designated for quick advising questions that can be addressed within 5-10 minutes. These sessions operate on a first-come, first-serve basis, so students should expect to be placed in a waiting room upon joining the Zoom meeting and will be admitted in the order that they joined, once the advisor is available to assist them. To ensure meeting with an advisor, please join drop-ins at least 10 minutes prior to the end of the session.

Fall 2025 Virtual Drop-In Advising

Mondays: 10:00AM – 11:30AM (*Virtual Drop-Ins will be held from 11AM-12:30PM on Monday, 10/27)

Wednesdays: 1:00PM – 2:30PM

To join virtual drop-ins, please use this link.

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Neuroscience Mailing List

Our department sends out emails pertaining to program information and updates, as well as a weekly newsletter filled with opportunities and resources, to Neuroscience majors and minors via our listserv. Students can request to be added to the mailing list by emailing neurosci@ucla.edu with your UID and preferred email address, and be sure to add neurosci_undergrad@lists.ucla.edu to your safe list.