“…Undergraduate research is a challenging topic both in academia and in practice. Current research mainly focuses on the benefits of undergraduate research in various disciplines and universities (Goodlad, 1998;Hathaway, Nagda, & Gregerman, 2002;John & Creighton, 2011;Russell et al, 2007), strategies to promote undergraduate research (Ryser et al, 2009;Snow et al, 2010), and factors that influence undergraduates' decision-making in choosing research projects (Economy et al, 2014;Economy, Martin, & Kennedy, 2013;Hancock & Russell, 2008). Among them, this paper focuses on the factors that influence undergraduates' decision-making in choosing research projects.…”