Why Participate in a Summer Research Experience?
Participating in a summer research program has many benefits, summarized in From Summer Research Participant to Graduate School Contender.
Listed below are many undergraduate summer research fellowships. To search on your own, Google the word "research" and add in one of the following acronyms: REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates), SROP (Summer Research Opportunities Program), SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships), SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program), or MURF (Minority Undergraduate Research Fellowships).
Summer Internship Resources
- AAMC: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- American Psychological Association: Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Internships
- NSF: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Pathways to Science: Fully Funded STEM Programs
- Pathways to Science: STEM Undergraduate Programs
- REU Finder: REU Programs for Freshmen
- REU Finder: REU Programs for International Students
- Rochester Institute of Technology: Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities with Private Companies
- University of California at Berkeley: Undergraduate Research Programs
- Big Ten Academic Alliance: Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
- Leadership Alliance: Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL): Repperger Research Intern Program
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL): Seasonal Internship Program
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL): Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
- Center for Disease Control (CDC): Undergraduate Student Short-Term Opportunities
- Department of Energy (DOE): Scholars Program
- Department Homeland Security (DHS): Summer Research
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIDA Summer Research Internship Program
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Short-Term Research Experience Program to Unlock Potential (STEP-UP)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Summer Internship Program (SIP)
- National Science Foundation (NSF): Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI): Summer Apprenticeship Program
- Naval Research Laboratory (NRL): HBCU/MI/TCU Research Internship Program
- Smithsonian Institution: Internships at the Smithsonian
- American Society for Investigative Pathology: Summer Research Opportunity Program in Pathology (SROPP)
- Amgen Foundation: Amgen Scholars Program
- The Jackson Laboratory: Summer Student Program
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR): US Biomedical Research Internship Programs
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)
- Sanford Research: Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI): Summer Scholars Program (SSSP)
- Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI): Summer Internships for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
- Baylor College of Medicine: Summer Undergraduate Research Training (SMART)
- Boston University: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- California State University, Monterey Bay: Ocean Science Research Experience for Undergraduates
- Caltech: Amgen Scholars Program
- Caltech: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
- Caltech: WAVE Fellows Program
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Columbia University: Amgen Scholars Program
- Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Cornell University: Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (LSAMP Summer REU)
- Duke University: Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- Emory College: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
- Harvard University: Amgen Scholars Program
- Harvard University: Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP)
- Indiana University: STEM Summer Scholars Institute
- Johns Hopkins University: Diversity Summer Internship Program for Undergraduates (DSIP)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Bernard S. and Sophie G. Gould MIT Summer Research Program in Biology (BSG-MSRP-Bio)
- Mayo Clinic: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Northwestern University: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- Northwestern University: Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute: Summer Internship Program
- Princeton University: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Quantitative & Computational Biology (SURP)
- Stanford University: SSRP-AMGEN Scholars Program
- University of Alabama at Birmingham: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- University of Alabama School of Medicine: Blazer Broadening Representation And Inclusion in Neuroscience (Blazer BRAIN)
- University at Buffalo: CLIMB UP Summer Research
- University at Buffalo: iSEED Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- University of California Berkeley: Amgen Scholars Program
- University of California Berkeley: Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- University of California Berkeley: Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB)
- University of California Los Angeles: Amgen Scholars Program
- University of California Los Angeles: Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- University of California San Francisco: Summer Research Training Program
- University of Colorado Cancer Center: Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate Training & Education Opportunities
- University of Colorado Cancer Center: Graduate Experiences for Multicultural Students (GEMS)
- University of Georgia: NanoBio Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- University of Iowa: Biomedical Scholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- University of Maryland: BSOS Summer Research Initiative (SRI)
- University of Michigan: Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
- University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- University of Michigan Medical School: Michigan Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (M-SURE)
- University of Michigan Medical School: Undergrad Summer Research
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Summer Research Program
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine: Undergraduate Pipeline Network Summer Research Program (UPN)
- University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Carolina Summer Fellowship Program (CSFP)
- University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE-REU)
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (SURP)
- University of Oregon: Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- University of Pennsylvania: Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP)
- University of Pittsburgh: Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBio)
- University of Rochester Medical Center: Summer Scholars Program
- University of Virginia: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- University of Virginia School of Medicine: Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP)
- University of Washington: Summer Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Cellular and Molecular Biology of Stress Summer Research Program
- UT Health San Antonio: Summer Programs
- UT Health Houston: Microbiology Summer Undergraduate Research Program (MicroSURP)
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center: Summer Program in Cancer Research
- UT Southwestern Medical Center: Amgen Scholars Program
- UT Southwestern Medical Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- UT Southwestern Medical Center: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)-Stem Cell
- Washington University in St. Louis: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- Yale University: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- University of Rochester: Summer Research Opportunities for International Students
Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities in the Life Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology provides a list of university-based research positions. These are especially useful for students who want to explore research careers and/or graduate school.
