National Undergraduate Internship and Research Opportunities
Please note that this list is constantly being updated as new opportunities become available and is presented by deadline and not in order of receipt.
Many of the programs listed are “REUs”. An REU is a Research Experience for Undergraduates, which is typically funded by the National Science Foundation and offered at a college or university, with research centered around a central theme or research area.
National Museum of American History Summer 2021 Internships | Deadline March 1, 2021
Virtual 50th Anniversary Internships, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives | Deadline March 1, 2021
STEM Virtual Summer Internships, US Army Institute of Surgical Research | Deadline March 1, 2021
REU in Virtual BigDataX, Illinois Institute of Technology/University of Chicago | Deadline March 1, 2021
REU in Sustainable Groundwater Resources, San Francisco State University/California State University System | Deadline March 1, 2021
2021 Summer Internships, Ohio Bird Sanctuary |Deadline March 1, 2021
2021 Summer Internships, Transportation Security Laboratory, US Dept of Homeland Security | Deadline March 1, 2021
Mellon Scholars Program and Mellon Scholars Summer Workshop (for advanced undergraduates), Program in African American History, The Library Company of Philadelphia |Deadline March 1, 2021
2021 NeuroSURF- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Translational Neurobiology, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech | Deadline March 1, 2021
2021 REU in Statistical Modeling with Applications to Geoscience, Florida Tech | Deadline March 1, 2021
Summer Research Intern Program, Space Institute, University of Tennessee | Deadline March 5, 2021
Remote Summer REU at University of Pittsburg- Human Engineering Research Laboratories | Deadline March 12, 2021
2021 REU in Robotics, West Virginia University | Deadline March 12, 2021
Summer Internship; Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project; Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States/Saint Louis University |Deadline March 14, 2021
REU in Next-Generation Plant Biology, UC Riverside | Deadline March 15, 2021
Summer Internship; Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project; Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States/Saint Louis University |Deadline March 15, 2021
NSF REU Site on Cognitive and High Frequency Long Range Communications at the University of Arizona | Deadline March 19, 2021
Medical Student Research Program Internship, Van Andel Institute | Rolling reviews in March 2021
Curatorial Assistant and Digitization Internship, Antique Boat Museum | Deadline April 16, 2021
Museum Association of New York: Curatorial Assistant & Digitization Internship 2021 | Deadline April 16, 2021
REU, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago | No application deadline listed.
Biomedical Research Internships- catalog of 260 biomedical research internship opportunities offered nationwide, compiled by Fred Hutch | Various deadlines
Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities in the Arts and Humanities- sortable database | Various deadlines
Pathways to Science Summer Research Programs | Various deadlines
2021 Summer Internships, Transportation Security Laboratory, US Dept of Homeland Security | No application deadline listed
List of more than 300 NSF REU sites across the country with links | Various deadlines