Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

And now the news that some of you have been waiting for: the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012!

Rank	School	Country	# of Accepted Students	# in 2011
1	University of Moratuwa	Sri Lanka	29	27
2	Polytechnic University Of Bucharest	Romania	21	23
2	National University of Singapore	Singapore	21	11
3	Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology	India	17	8
4	International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad	India	16	9
5	Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Goa campus / BITS-Pilani - K.K.Birla Goa Campus	India	14	1
6	Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU)	India	13	6
7	Technical University Of Gdansk	Poland	12	9
7	Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)	India	12	10
8	Technische Universität Wien, (TU Wien)	Austria	10	13
8	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	India	10	14
8	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia	10	7
9	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	India	9	6
9	Chernihiv State Technological University	Ukraine	9	6
10	UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	8	14

As you can see, some schools have a big jump in participants over 2011 - yes, I’m talking about you, BITS-Pilani - while a few schools show a drop off in students.  To compare, let’s look at the overall “Top 10” schools for the past 8 years.

Rank	School	Country	# of Accepted Students: 2005-2012
1	University of Moratuwa	Sri Lanka	164
2	Polytechnic University Of Bucharest	Romania	75
3	National University of Singapore	Singapore	58
3	Technische Universität Wien, (TU Wien)	Austria	58
3	Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP	Brazil	58
4	University of Toronto	Canada	57
5	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	India	51
6	Technical University Of Gdansk	Poland	49
7	Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	48
8	International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad	India	42
8	Politechnika Wroclawska	Poland	42
9	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	41
10	Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU)	India	38

Charts like these highlight how international Google Summer of Code truly is.  

It’s important to remember that the number of students from each school is not the point of the program. Over 13% of accepted students are from schools whose students are participating for the first time this year. What matters is participation - getting more students involved with creating free and open source software. 

By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Programs