UROP Guidelines for Wellesley College Students
Below you will find information on the guidelines you must follow in order to participate in a UROP.
- Cross-registration and What to Do Once You've Found a UROP
- UROP for Credit
- UROP for Pay
- UROP as a Volunteer
Cross-registration and What to Do Once You've Found a UROP
- In order to register for UROP credit or be placed on the MIT student payroll, you must make sure that you are cross-registered for the period in which your UROP takes place. Please complete the Wellesley College Cross Registration form online (see Wellesley Cross-Registration site: https://my.wellesley.edu/cp/home/displaylogin), as well as submit your research proposal and coversheet to UROP staff. Contact UROP staff for the appropriate UROP subject number you need in order to complete your Cross-Registration.
- With your UROP faculty supervisor, choose supervisor funding, credit, or volunteer.
- See the UROP Deadlines page for all current UROP deadlines. Applications are due to UROP no later than 5PM on the given deadline date.
- Write a UROP proposal describing your planned research activities for the semester. Guidelines are available from the Applying for UROPs section of this site and in Room 7-104.
- Complete a UROP Coversheet and staple it to your research proposal. Coversheets should be signed by the student, the UROP faculty supervisor and the department or lab UROP coordinator. Call UROP at x3-7306 if you need help identifying the coordinator in your dept./lab or see the UROP Coordinators page in the Resources section for a list of all UROP coordinators.
- UROP forms cannot be processed if all signatures are not obtained or proposal is not attached.
- No approval letters, timecards, or paychecks will be issued until all paperwork has been received and approved.
- You may not receive credit and pay for the same project during the same term.
- You may not receive supervisor funding and direct funding for the same project during the same term.
- Proposals must be submitted to Room 7-104 by 5pm on the appropriate UROP deadline.
UROP for Credit
- To do a UROP for credit, you must complete the Wellesley College Cross Registration form online (see Wellesley Cross-Registration site: https://my.wellesley.edu/cp/home/displaylogin), as well as submit your research proposal and coversheet to UROP staff. Contact UROP staff for the appropriate UROP subject number you need in order to complete your Cross-Registration.
- To register for a pass/fail UROP: Add the subject called (Course#).UR
- To register for a graded UROP: Add the subject called (Course#).URG
- Graded credit is not available in Course 6 and Course 8 or to first-term freshmen.
- UROP for Credit Proposals must be signed by the UROP Coordinator for your faculty supervisor's academic department (this is the department in which your credit should be received). For example, if you are researching with a Course 7 credit faculty member, you must obtain the Course 7 Coordinator signature, etc.
- Your UROP faculty supervisor will receive a grade sheet for you at the end of the term. It is his/her responsibility to return your grade to the Registrar's office.
UROP for Pay
- As a Wellesley College student, you are not eligible for direct support from UROP (known as direct funding). However, supervisor funding is allowed if your faculty supervisor agrees to fund you.
- If you plan to do a UROP for pay, you must complete the Wellesley College Cross Registration form online (see Wellesley Cross-Registration site: https://my.wellesley.edu/cp/home/displaylogin), as well as submit your research proposal and coversheet to UROP staff. Contact UROP staff for the appropriate UROP subject number you need in order to complete your Cross-Registration.
- UROP cross-registrations for paid UROPs must be for one unit of Wellesley Paid UROP credit in your faculty supervisor's academic department (Course#.URW).
- The minimum hourly rate is $9.75/hr. and your supervisor must enter a total stipend amount on the required line on your coversheet. The stipend is your overall expected earnings.
- As with credit and volunteer UROPs, approval will not be issued until all paperwork is complete.
- Once approval is issued, you will receive an approval email from UROP staff that notes your next required steps for getting set up for MIT UROP payroll.
UROP as a Volunteer
- See the UROP Deadlines page for all current UROP deadlines. Applications are due to UROP no later than 5PM on the given deadline date.
- If you plan to do a UROP for as a volunteer, you must complete the Wellesley College Cross Registration form online (see Wellesley Cross-Registration site: https://my.wellesley.edu/cp/home/displaylogin), as well as submit your research proposal and coversheet to UROP staff. Contact UROP staff for the appropriate UROP subject number you need in order to complete your Cross-Registration.
- As with credit and paid UROPs, approval will not be issued until all paperwork is complete.
