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HIGH-IMPACT PROGRAMS
High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs) provide transformative experiences that enhance personal development, educational growth, and increased marketability. The Center for Undergraduate Research & Engaged Learning coordinates a number of programs that help students incorporate HIPs activities into their educational experience. Learn more about our HIP programs.
Learn how to incorporate HIPS into your learning experience at UCR
- Apply classroom knowledge to an Internship or Research opportunity
- Experience collaborative Research Project
- Collaborate in Team Projects, Field-Based Research or Faculty Mentored Projects within a diverse community
- Experience Service-Learning project with a community organization
- Participation in off-campus Research or Academic Internship
- Culmination experience demonstrating competence in a project or class (Capstone or Research Symposium)
Learn about the benefits of High-Impact Educational Practices**:
- Enhance faculty connections: Strengthen your relationships with professors.
- Boost interpersonal skills: Improve your ability to interact effectively with others.
- Cultivate leadership abilities: Develop your leadership qualities.
- Raise GPAs: Achieve higher academic performance.
- Graduate on time: Increase the likelihood of timely graduation.
- Enhance educational satisfaction: Experience greater happiness with your education.
- Sharpen critical thinking and writing skills: Improve your analytical and communication abilities.
- Foster diversity appreciation: Develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for diversity.
- Prepare for the workforce or graduate school: Be better equipped for your future career or further studies.
**Benefits have been found to be greater for First-Generation and under-served students.
CUREL News
May 19, 2026
5 Highlanders receive 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Five UC Riverside Highlanders have been selected for the 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or NSF GRFP.
The fellowship supports students pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, fields at accredited U.S. institutions.
April 03, 2026
Sophomore Inchara Jagadeesh awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Physics major recognized for cosmology research and exceptional promise as a future scientific leader
December 16, 2025
Sreenidhi Surineni named UC Riverside’s first Marshall Scholar
Sreenidhi (Sree) Surineni, a UC Riverside senior in neuroscience, has been named a 2026 Marshall Scholar, one of the most competitive awards in higher education.
February 19, 2025
UC Riverside sees surge in college applicants
More prospective students sought admission to UC Riverside this school year than ever before.
The number of applicants to be first-year students for fall 2025 surged by 23.2%, reaching a record 70,578, according to data released by the UC Office of the President. This increase from the year before follows previous records for applicants for the falls of 2024 and 2023, with 57,420 and 56,462 applicants, respectively.