Participation in research is an integral part of undergraduate education at MIT. At the Picower Center for Learning and Memory, undergraduate students participate in research as junior colleagues of our faculty. Created in 1969, MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) provides undergraduates with the opportunity to engage in research for academic credit, or pay or on a voluntary basis.

All undergraduate admissions to MIT are handled through the MIT Admissions Office.

"MIT is deeply committed to the premise that undergraduates should inhabit a very special world - that of a moral and intellectual universe with certain fixed stars, but also with wide spaces in between where students can find room to wander and to make their own paths."

Margaret L.A. MacVicar, Founder of UROP