Off-Campus research opportunities for undergraduates are offered by a variety of institutions and organizations, some of which are listed below; students are encouraged to check these websites, explore others online, and to contact organizations directly for information.
Application deadlines vary and competition is keen, so students seeking summer research positions should begin their inquiries early and apply as soon as possible.
Physics students are urged to talk with their Physics Department professors for advice. The Gettysburg College Center for Career Engagement is an additional resource for summer employment.
Organizations and institutions include:
*Accepts applications from all students regardless of citizenship
** International Programs
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- American Physical Society
- BYU*
- Brookhaven National Laboratory*
- California Institute of Technology*
- Carnegie Mellon University
- CERN**
- DAAD Rise Germany*
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Duke University-Engineering World Health Summer Institute
- Fermilab ASPIRE*
- Fermilab SIST*
- Glenn T. Seaborg Institute*
- Information Science and Technology Institute*
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory*
- Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands**
- Lehigh University*
- Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)
- MIT*
- The National Academies
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory*
- National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates including:
- Brigham Young University
- Case Western Reserve
- CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
- College of William & Mary
- College of Wooster
- CWU (Central Washington University) COTS
- Cornell Center for Materials Research
- Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS)
- Hampton University (HUGS)
- Hampton University (CURE)
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Louisiana State University CCT
- Louisiana State University SIGMA
- Maria Mitchell Astronomical Observatory
- Maryland Sea Grant
- Miami University
- MIRTHE, (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment)
- Montana State University Solar Physics
- National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory)
- National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
- National Solar Observatory
- Northern Arizona University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio Wesleyan University
- Old Dominion (in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)* and the
- Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM)
- Princeton University Engineering*
- Princeton University Plasma and Fusion*
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
- SETI Institute (Mountain View, CA)
- Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA)
- University of Alabama, Birmingham
- University of California, Davis
- University of Chicago Physics Department and Materials Research Center
- University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
- University of Florida
- University of Hawaii
- University of Idaho
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign*
- University of Michigan
- University of Michigan at CERN
- University of Nebraska
- University of Nevada
- University of Notre Dame*
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania Engineering
- University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering
- University of South Florida, Tampa
- University of Utah
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Upstate Medical University (SURF)
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena
- New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight - ISPCS - Summer Internships)
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
- Perimeter Scholars International*
- Purdue University*
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rosetta Commons*
- RWTH AACHEN University**
- Smithsonian Institute's Office of Fellowships and Internships and Astrophysical Institute
- Space Telescope Science Institute*
- SPS National*
- UC Davis REU* (requires funding from home institution)
- UMass Amherst*
- University of Waterloo*
- Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering and Applied Science
- West Virginia University SURI
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution