This study used the Attitude Towards Research Scale developed by Papanasatasiou (2005) and validated with the Rasch Rating Analysis by Papanasatasiou and Schumaker (2014), to investigate the attitudes and anxiety level towards research among two sets of students pursuing undergraduate programmes in education and nursing in a Ghanaian University. The study employed an action research methodology and descriptive statistics to study and analyse the responses of 93 nursing students (B.Sc Nursing) and 35 education students (B.Ed.) who registered and participated in introductory undergraduate research methods courses in the 2016/17 academic year. The study employs descriptive and relational statistics in order to gauge and understand students' attitudes and anxiety towards research in the two programme areas. The participants' responses were analyzed through means and independent sample t-tests with the IBM/SPSS version 21 statistical package. The findings indicated no statistically significant differences among students in the two programme groups on the ATR, even though there were lower mean differences relating to research methods difficulty and relevance of research to the lives of participants.