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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016 is officially at its halfway point. Mentors and students have just completed their midterm evaluations and it’s time for our second stats post. This time we take a closer look at our participating students.

First, we’d like to highlight the universities with the most student participants. Congratulations are due to the International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad for claiming the top spot for the third consecutive year!

Country	School	2016 Accepted Students	2015 Accepted Students	12 Year Total
India	International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad	50	62	252
Sri Lanka	University of Moratuwa	29	44	320
Romania	University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest	24	14	155
India	Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Goa Campus	22	15	110
India	Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus	22	18	116
India	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	18	13	75
India	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	15	8	92
India	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	15	8	57
India	Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi	15	7	27
India	Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus	13	5	33
India	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati	13	5	38
Cameroon	University of Buea	12	10	26
India	Delhi Technological University	12	9	60
India	Indian Institute of Technology BHU Varanasi	12	12	37
Germany	TU Munich	11	7	45

Next, we are proud to announce that 2016 marks the largest number of female GSoC participants to date — 12% of accepted students are female, up 2.2% from 2015. This is good progress, but we are certain we can do better in the future to diversify our program. The Google Open Source team will continue our outreach to many organizations, for example, Grace Hopper and Black Girls Code, to increase this number even more 2017. If you have any suggestions of organizations we should work with, please let us know in the comments.

Finally, each year we like to look at the majors of students. As expected, the most common area of study for our participants is Computer Science (approximately 78%), but this year we have a wide variety of studies including Linguistics, Law, Music Technology and Psychology.  The majority of our students this year are undergraduates (67%), followed by Masters (23%) and then PhD students (9%).



Although reviewing GSoC statistics each year is great fun, we want to stress that being “first place” is not the point of the program. Our goal is to get more and more students involved in creating free and open source software. We hope Google Summer of Code encourages contributions to projects that have the potential to make a difference worldwide. Congratulations to the students from all over the globe and keep up the good work!

By Mary Radomile, Open Source Programs Office