About Undergraduate Research

Unparalleled Opportunities

At Illinois, students are encouraged to participate in research projects throughout your undergraduate career.   Illinois computer science provides an unparalleled research environment, with award-winning faculty who are pivotal contributors to the field and who welcome students into their labs.

As a student here, you get the best that a distinguished faculty in a research institution can offer: exposure to cutting-edge and path-breaking research, and teachers who bring their enthusiasm and deep knowledge into your daily classroom.

Participation in various available opportunities provides students with a chance to apply principles learned in the classroom to original, complex problems. In addition to the valuable hands-on skills cultivated, the student also obtains demonstrable, verifiable experience that appeals to graduate schools as well as potential employers.

Undergraduate research within the Department of Computer Science may take the form of CS 397 Individual Study, CS 499 Senior Thesis or even paid student positions.