We want to congratulate our 1,134 students that complete GSoC 2019. Great work everyone!
Now that GSoC 2019 is over we would like to wrap up the program with some more statistics to round out the year.
Student Registrations
We had 30,922 students from 148 countries register for GSoC 2019 (that’s a 19.5% increase in registrations over last year, the previous record). Interest in GSoC clearly continues to grow and we’re excited to see it growing in all parts of the world.
For the first time ever we had students register from Bhutan, Fiji, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, and Swaziland.
For the first time ever we had students register from Bhutan, Fiji, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, and Swaziland.
Universities
The 1,276 students accepted into the GSoC 2019 program hailed from 6586 universities, of which, 164 have students participating for the first time in GSoC.Schools with the most accepted students for GSoC 2019:
| University | # of Accepted Students |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee | 48 |
| International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad | 29 |
| Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) | 27 |
| Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU Dwarka) | 20 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | 19 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | 19 |
| Amrita University / Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | 14 |
| Delhi Technological University | 11 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | 11 |
| Indraprastha Institute of Information and Technology, New Delhi | 11 |
Mentors
Each year we pore over gobs of data to extract some interesting statistics about the GSoC mentors. Here’s a quick synopsis of our 2019 crew:- Registered mentors: 2,815
- Mentors with assigned student projects: 2,066
- Mentors who have participated in GSoC for 10 or more years: 70
- Mentors who have been a part of GSoC for 5 years or more: 307
- Mentors that are former GSoC students: 691
- Mentors that have also been involved in the Google Code-in program: 498
- Percentage of new mentors: 35.84%
Every year thousands of GSoC mentors help introduce the next generation to the world of open source software development—for that we are forever grateful. We can not stress enough that without our invaluable mentors the GSoC program would not exist. Mentorship is why GSoC has remained strong for 15 years, the relationships built between students and mentors have helped sustain the program and many of these communities. Sharing their passion for open source, our mentors have paved the road for generations of contributors to enter open source development.
Thank you to all of our mentors, organization administrators, and all of the “unofficial” mentors that help in our open source organization’s communities. Google Summer of Code is a community effort and we appreciate each and every one of you.
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source
