<p>What schoosl give the best opportunity for this. I believe that Berkeley has pretty good opportunities. But I think better than theirs is Cornell and MIT, they pay or give credit for most ugrad research, thats what I hear at least. Is this true? What other schools are good for ugrad research and getting funding?</p>
<p>Many LACs are also good for research. With small class sizes and school populations, students are frequently invited to assist in major research with professors. I know this is the case at Reed, Kenyon and Denison.</p>
<p>University of Nebraska Lincoln's UCARE program</p>
<p>2 year program open to everyone with two years remaining in school and has completed 30 semester hours (which might include some freshman).</p>
<p>First year you get paid to assist a faculty member with their research. Second year you get paid to conduct your own research with the guidance of the same faculty member you assisted the previous year. </p>
<p>One great thing about this program in my opinion is that they don't require it to be traditional research if you are in a field where that's difficult to accomplish. I had a friend who worked with the faculty of the Lied Center (the on-campus performance hall) to put together an education program for elementary school children about the performance process. So it allows a lot more than just traditional bench research.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/ucare/%5B/url%5D">http://www.unl.edu/ucare/</a></p>
<p>Michigan's UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) has around 1000 research projects specifically reserved for freshman and sophomore students. (<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/urop/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/urop/</a>)</p>
<p>Here's what one smart student did with that opportunity (scroll to the end and look for "Undergraduate Students" and "David Zhen":
<a href="http://www.med.umich.edu/pfund/facultystaff.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.med.umich.edu/pfund/facultystaff.htm</a></p>
<p>It's extremely easy to get involved with research at Duke. There's even a research program specifically for freshmen and pre-major sophomores. </p>
<p>Over the summer, you should look at REUs, especially if your college doesn't have exactly the program you're looking for.
<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm</a></p>
<p>Hopkins is also known for undergraduate research.</p>
<p>Florida State has some excellent programs for undergraduate research. My daughter, a biochemistry major, has already had funded research that was then presented at [PittCon[/url</a>].</p>
<p>See >> [url=<a href="http://www.research.fsu.edu/facultystaff/students.html%5DFSU">http://www.research.fsu.edu/facultystaff/students.html]FSU</a> Undergrad Research](<a href="http://www.pittcon.org/about/index.html%5DPittCon%5B/url">http://www.pittcon.org/about/index.html)</p>
<p>Very small universities: Tufts and Clark U--both in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is the place for undergraduate research. In my suite 3/4 guys are working on research projects (1 is humanities, 2 engineers) I'm a sophmore and I can easily think of dozens of people participating in research (humanities, scienses, engineering, etc...) there are SOOO many opportunities here. The professor I'm working with actually sent out a major-wide email asking if any undergrads wanted to work in his lab.</p>
<p>Those human electro-shock experiments wear out a lot of freshmen. ;)</p>
<p>hehe parent2noles, I should add that we actually participate in the research projects and not as research subjects. ;) </p>
<p>(although it seems one can make a decent living by agreeing to be a research subject with various professors heh)</p>
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I must admit, I was a bit surprised to see a certain psych course requirement in the course handbook. </p>
<p>PSY 11: Students must fulfill a departmental research requirement (if this is their first course in psychology) either by participation in psychology experiments or submitting a research paper.</p>
<p>PSY 91: Students required to participate as subjects in three to six hours of psychological research if not done in a previous introductory class.</p>
<p>PSY 92: Students required to participate in three to six hours of psychological research if not completed in a previous introductory class.</p>
<p>PSY 99: Students participate in three to six hours of psychological research if not done in a previous introductory class.</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>Tufts provides a lot of money/funding/resources for undergraduate research; especially in the health sciences (including psychology), engineering, and political science/IR.</p>
<p>warblers - I personally prefer the approach UVA took when I enrolled in a summer psych course. Participating in research wasn't required but it got you out of writing a term paper. ;)</p>
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<p>This is common to most major universities...they always need test subjects.</p>
<p>i'll second JHU research. i heard from my chemistry teacher its amazing</p>
<p>Caltech's SURF(Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) Program is likely the best, as almost 28% of the living Caltech undergradute alumni have been SURF participants and 20% of SURF participants got their research published.</p>
<p>The top 25 schools with undergrad populations below 10K students and with more undergrads than grads. These schools tend to be cash rich and undergrad focused. Ex. Duke, Brown, Stanford, Chicago, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Amherst, Princeton, Emory, etc.</p>
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<p>I don't think you necessarily need the condition of having 'more undergrads than grads'. Both Caltech and MIT have more graduate students than undergrad students. Yet I don't think anybody would dispute that these are excellent places for undergrad research. </p>
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<p>Uh, Stanford has more grads than undergrads (about 8k to 7k). Chicago clearly has more grad students than undergrads, by more than a 2:1 ratio.</p>
<p>The University of Michigan's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) is open to roughly 1,000 (20% of the entering class) Freshmen each year. I have never heard of a student seeking a research opportunity at Michigan who did not get it.</p>