Program Information for Past Years

Many folks ask us frequently for an overview of how many students participated in the program, how many organizations we accepted, etc. This page is your one stop shop for that data. Not finding some information you'd like? Comment here and we can respond as soon as possible to your request for information.

Check out our blog post on 2011 program statistics and our posts from previous years: blog post on program statistics from 2005-2008 and our September follow up post for lots of detailed information including number of students by country, etc. and some additional statistics about participants and top schools.

Statistics for 2011

Coding Dates: May 23rd - Aug 22nd

$7.2M budget

1115 students accepted

2096 mentors and co-mentors

175 Open Source organizations

Accepted students from 68 countries (including 6 new countries), mentors from 55 countries (including 7 new countries)

18.1% of students have participated in previous years

97 countries with student applicants

88% overall success rate

Final Statistics for 2010

Coding Dates: May 24 - Aug 16th

$5M budget

1026 students accepted

150 Open Source organizations

89% overall student success rate

Final Statistics for 2009

Coding Dates: May 23 - Aug 25th

$5M budget

1000 students accepted

1991 mentors and co-mentors

150 Open Source organizations

85% overall student success rate

Final Statistics for 2008:

Coding Dates: May 26-Aug 18th

$5M budget

More than 7000 applications received, which was more than the 2007 of just under 6200 (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/applications-are-in.html)

1125 students accepted

2500+ mentors and co-mentors

175 open source organizations

98 countries

83% overall student success rate

students on every continent (except, of course, Antarctica)

Final Statistics for 2007:

Coding Dates: May 28th - August 31st

$4M budget

6,200 applications received

905 students accepted

nearly 1500 mentors and co-mentors

over 130 open source organizations

90 countries

81% overall student success rate

students on every continent (except, of course, Antarctica)

Final Statistics for 2006:

Dates: May 1 - Sept 8th

$3M budget

630 Students

1200 Mentors

102 open source organizations

90 countries

82% overall student success rate

Select Statistics for 2005:

$2M budget

400 students

40 open source organizations

49 countries

80% final student success rate