Summer at UC Santa Barbara

The Research Mentorship Program is a 7-week, competitive summer program that engages qualified, high-achieving high school students worldwide in interdisciplinary, hands-on, university-level research. Students choose a research project from a long list of disciplines offered by the program each year, and they are paired with a research mentor (graduate student, postdoc, or faculty). They also earn 8 university credits by taking two courses in which they learn research techniques and master communication skills.

Along with their mentor, each student will develop a unique research project, gain insight into professional research processes, and mature their academic goals. They will develop a technical research paper and present their findings at a Research Symposium. Students will be immersed in university life and network with equally ambitious and curious peers.

UC Santa Barbara's Summer Research Academies offer a dynamic summer experience that fosters a passion for research. For 4+ weeks, students will participate in an interdisciplinary track in STEM, Humanities, and/or Social Science fields and build on fundamental concepts while developing a research project in a group of three. As part of the track, they will take a 4-unit university course through which they will learn about current, open-ended questions in that field of study.

Student groups will develop a novel research project while they gain academic and professional skills by networking with equally ambitious and curious peers and experiencing university life in a challenging and stimulating environment. Student groups will present their research findings at a Capstone Seminar at the end of the program.