Research and internships

Maryland students really have the best of both worlds.

ON CAMPUS: Terps have opportunities to do undergraduate research in world-class laboratories under the mentorship of renowned faculty researchers.

BEYOND MARYLAND: Terps are only a short commute from one of the nation’s largest concentrations of biotech firms, federal research labs, and research hospitals.

Research internships and clinical internships are the most common among chemistry, biochemistry, and biological sciences majors, but students also find opportunities to apply their classroom learning to industry, science education, and community service. Most students do more than one internship during their undergraduate years.

Getting started

Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)

OUR’s website offers a premiere toolkit for students to prepare for, obtain, and succeed in undergraduate research experiences. Terps are highly recommended to explore and review their resources to get started.

Want to meet with someone in person? OUR’s team also hosts office hours, where they can discuss strategies for locating and applying to research opportunities, amongst other related topics. Learn more here.

Earned academic credit

BSCI Terps completing extracurricular research can request to apply their experience as Earned Academic Credit

Forms for Off-campus research, internship

—(due by the end of the schedule adjustment period)

Bookmark. Explore. Apply.

introducing Bsop

The Biological Sciences Undergraduate Program is introducing a new, centralized database for BSCI Terps to find and explore research, internship, and scholarship opportunities in the Biological Sciences, both at Maryland and BEYOND.