Location: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Cost/Stipend: Free; might receive a stipend
Acceptance rate/cohort size: Highly selective
Dates: June 22nd – July 30th
Application Deadline: March 2nd
Eligibility: Students entering 12th grade in the fall following the program who are residents of Massachusetts
If you’re a high school student passionate about STEM, Northeastern’s Young Scholars Program offers an engaging research experience this summer. Over six consecutive weeks, you’ll work in active research labs within Northeastern’s Colleges of Engineering, Science, or Health Science. Under Northeastern faculty’s and graduate student mentors’ guidance, tackle practical problems like battery chemistry to algorithm design.
Beyond your lab work, you’ll engage in a seminar series on engineering disciplines, explore career paths at companies and national labs, and receive personalized college and career advice. Because the program is free and campus-based, it offers strong exposure to undergraduate-level research without any tuition burden. Applications for the upcoming summer are open on December 15. https://stem.northeastern.edu/summer/ysp/
Why it stands out: Its R1 status would translate into you working in cutting-edge labs with access to real datasets, ongoing experiments, and graduate-level mentorship that is not typically available to high school students.
