REAL Portal

The Research Experience & Applied Learning (REAL) Portal helps students discover internships and other hands-on experiential learning opportunities.

Learn By Doing

UC San Diego is committed to delivering an educational experience that develops students who are capable of solving problems, leading, and innovating in a diverse and interconnected world. Strengthening the connection between academic and high-impact, co-curricular experiences is one way to achieve this goal.

The REAL Portal is part of the suite of Engaged Learning Tools (ELTs), a suite of tools that helps you discover, capture, review and share your experiences. To learn more about the suite of tools, including the Enhanced Electronic Transcript and Co-Curricular Record, visit https://elt.ucsd.edu.

Discover Opportunities

The REAL Portal offers research, internship, international, service learning, entrepreneurial, leadership, and other co-curricular opportunities that help students build real-world skills and apply knowledge gained in the classroom.

Click discover to search for opportunities.

Submit Opportunities

Have you found an opportunity that you'd like to share with others? Email real@ucsd.edu to let us know.

News

The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) Program: Summer 2019 Applications open now!

The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) seeks to increase the research competitiveness of faculty members and their students at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community in order to expand the workforce vital to the Department of Energy (DOE) mission areas. As part of the program, selected university/college faculty members collaborate with DOE laboratory research staff on a research project of mutual interest. Faculty member participants may invite up to two students (one of which may be a graduate student) to participate in the research project. Applications for Summer 2019 term are due January 10, 2019. Find more information here: VFP Program

A Scholarship to Help you Change the World

Global TIES, UC San Diego's Award-winning humanitarian engineering, social innovation, and sustainable development program is hosting an information session to learn about the Donald A. Strauss Scholarship, which awards $7000 in scholarship AND up to $8000 in project support to sophomore and junior changemakers. The information session will be held on Wednesday November 7th, from 5-6:30pm at the Fung Auditorium in the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building. Register to attend here: Strauss & Global TIES

Relevancy: Innovate, Evolve or Perish

UC San Diego's Career-Readiness Competencies and the Co-Curricular Record (CCR) are highlighted in this EvoLLLution article about career-preparation of today's college graduates. Author Ed Abeyta postulates that "when students graduate, employers should be able to determine what sets of skills and knowledge they bring to the workplace."