What are the skills and benefits of doing undergraduate research?
Gain Skills
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Practice complex problem-solving
- Collaborate in diverse group settings
- Innovate and be creative
- Locate, organize, and evaluate information from multiple sources
- Expand upon specific skills within your area of interest
- Increase understanding of different situations and decisions in a global context
- Work with numbers and understand statistics
- Apply knowledge and skills to real-world settings through internships and hands-on experiences
Utilize Benefits
- Explore your area of interest
- Earn financial support in the form of stipends or funds for research-related expenses
- Meet others that share your passions and interests
- Develop professional networks with students, faculty, and staff
- Apply course ideas to real-life scenarios
- Gain skills that you wouldn’t get the chance to in a traditional classroom setting
- Increase your likelihood of acceptance into graduate programs
- Graduation rates of undergraduates participating in research are consistently higher than the overall campus graduation rates (UWW Institutional Research and Planning)