Benefits of Undergraduate Research:

  •  Explore career directions
    • Influence their career and transfer decisions
    • Investigate research as a career option
  • Improve communication skills
    • Learn to publicly advocate for and defend work
    • Establish an effective relationship with a faculty mentor
  • Enhance resumes and build skills
    • Show demonstrated interest in a major area of study
    • Develop and exhibit major and job preparation skills
  • Test your determination and persistence
    • Overcome roadblocks and expand on techniques
    • Use all available resources to complete a project
  • Develop creativity and intellectual independence
    • Experience the joy of discovery and creation
    • Relate research to bigger causes and broader impact

Employers endorse curriculum that has students “conduct research and use evidence-based analysis.”