Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students (REUs)
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students or REUs for short are some of the most competitive in the nation and are many times paid experiences with travel, lodging, and food covered by the program.
Pay ranges anywhere from $2,000 to $8,000 for up to 10 weeks of work (on site at another college campus, or as a part of a trip out of the country), mostly over the summer.
These programs are many times also eligible for Augie Choice and range from studying Birds of Prey to Department of Defense drone projects, studies on educational environments, and economic impact studies on small businesses.
Most REU experiences limited to domestic students as they are funded by the federal government, so if you are an international student be sure to select Non-U.S. Citizens when searching.
Use the drop-down menus to find opportunities within your field of interest
- Texas Medical Center
- University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- University of Utah Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)
- The Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
- Summer Research Opportunities (SROP)
- National Science Foundation list of REU sites
- International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
- Federal Pathways Program
- NSF Summer Scholars Internship Program
- The Museum Seminar (MuSe) Internship Program at the MET
- VR-REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Immersive 3D Visualization
- Robert F. Smith Internship Program at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Summer Internship Program
- The Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI)
- Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS)
- Robert F. Smith Internship Program at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Internships at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
- Library Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Summer Internship Program
- Sevilleta Research Experience for Undergraduates
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research Program
- Smithsonian https://serc.si.edu/
- 2024 Summer REU Internship Program https://www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/education-outreach/undergraduate-program/internship-program/current-internship-resources/
- 2024 Plant Genomics REU Program https://plantgenomics.natsci.msu.edu/
- Pathways to Science Search Tool (INT’L APPLICANTS USE ADVANCED SEARCH FILTER)
- Association of American Medical Colleges: Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
- American Psychological Association: Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Internships
- Cancer Research Opportunities at the University of Iowa
- GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer (GW_SPARC)
- Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington School of Medicine (INT’L APPLICANTS ACCEPTED)
- Kimberly Querrey Summer Research Program at Northwestern Medicine (INT’L APPLICANTS ACCEPTED)
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Summer Research Fellowship (SURF) (INT’L APPLICANTS ACCEPTED)
- Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin (INT’L APPLICANTS ACCEPTED)
- Summer Training in Academic Research and Scholarship (STARS) Program
- Health Equity Research Experience (HERE) at Mayo Clinic
- UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program
- University of Nebraska Medical College Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)
- University of Iowa Health Care Biochemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (BSURF) (INT’L APPLICANTS ACCEPTED)
- National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Summer Research Programs & Scholarships in STEM (pathwaystoscienc.org)
- American Psychological Association: Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Internships
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship
- VR-REU: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Immersive 3D Visualization
- Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) Internship Program @ The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Research Internships in Science and Engineering
- Brain Research Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (BRI-SURE)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research Program
- Data Science for Social Good REU
- NASA Exploration Research and Technology
- International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
- Federal Pathways Program
- NSF Summer Scholars Internship Program