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Google Summer of Code 2014 by the numbers: Part three

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

In our third statistics post for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2014 we have a list of schools with the highest number of student participants. For the first time in seven years a new school has claimed the top spot—congratulations to International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad.

Rank
School
Country
# of Accepted Students 2014
# of Accepted Students 2013
1
India
69
29
2
Sri Lanka
44
39
3
India
26
19
4
India
25
16
5
Romania
17
25
6
India
15
9
7
Singapore
14
15
8
India
13
9
9
Hungary
12
7
9
India
12
17
10
India
11
10
10
India
11
0
10
Austria
11
13
10
Canada
11
2

Student majors in 2014 were predominantly in Computer Science and other technical fields (as expected).  But this year we also had students studying Anthropology, Cartography, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics and even Metallurgy. GSoC certainly attracts a diverse set of students year after year! For more stats from 2014, check out the other posts in this series.

We’d like to thank the schools and professors that help spread the word about GSoC to their students. But don’t forget that students from any university are encouraged to participate! Reviewing statistics each year from GSoC is exciting, but being in “first place” is certainly not the most important part of the program. Our goal since the inception of GSoC is to get students involved in the creation of free and open source software, and to encourage contributions to projects that have the potential to make a difference worldwide — no matter what university the student attends.

By Mary Radomile, Open Source Programs


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