The Major Qualifying Project is a high-level research project within the student’s major that must be completed in the senior year prior to graduation.
Psychological Science majors work with a faculty mentor to develop their research question and project. Some MQPs are completed on campus in research labs, and others involve testing participants in the real world (e.g., middle schools, assisted living facilities, online). Regardless of setting, students will be actively involved in every stage of the psychological science research pipeline from developing an idea to designing a study to collecting data to analyzing findings. At the project’s completion, students present their research and findings at the Undergraduate Research Projects Showcase in April where the most highly meritorious project is honored with the Provost's MQP Award.
Project opportunities differ year by year depending on the students' interests and ongoing activities in our research labs.
