The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) at Cal State Monterey Bay is a cross-campus center that engages students in undergraduate research. These research experiences enable students to contextualize their academic work and develop the leadership, innovation, and personal skills for success in graduate school and their professional lives.

Our mission is to build students’ educational ownership, intellectual vibrancy, and scholarly identity. We achieve this through mentored undergraduate research; rigorous, authentic, and calibrated scholarly activities; and the development of intellectual, personal, and social capital.