Research Internships for Undergraduates

This is a non-exhaustive list of opportunities available to Undergraduate students. Many of these positions are only focused towards Indian students.

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The following are some worldwide research internship positions:

North America

USA

• LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science, for both national and international students.
• NASA - CalTech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), for research positions at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
• Santa Fe Institute Summer Research Experience
• Robotics Institute for Summer Scholars, CMU
• QRLSSP Summer Program, Arizona State University: Only for US Citizens / Permanent Residents
• Summer Undergraduate Research fellowship program, Rockfeller Institute
• CalTech SURF Program
• Space Astronomy Summer Program, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• Summer Research Program, Princeton University
• International Student Research Internship Program - McKelvey School of Engineering
• Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering - Global Talent Attraction Program (GTAP)
• Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program, UC Davis
• ICT Summer Research Program
• UC Berkeley Amgen Scholars program
• Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) (for Information Technology students
• SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM(SROP), Purdue University
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Stanford University
• IPAM UCLA Program

Canada

• University of Alberta Research Experience (UARE)

Europe

Germany

• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, for all students.
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• Warwick Statistics Internship Scheme, University of Warwick
• HZDR Dresden, Summer student program (Germany)
• MaxSIP (Max Planck Institute Summer Internship)
• UROP International, RWTH Aachen

United Kingdom

• DSSGx UK Summer Fellowship, University of Warwick
• Visual Geometry Group

Switzerland

• Research fellowship at ETH Zurich - Application closed
• CERN Summer Student Program
• CERN OpenLab for Computer Science Undergraduates
• E3, EPFL (Switzerland)
• Summer at EPFL
• Swissnex Program

France

• OECD Internship Programme (France)

Spain

• Summer Training Program,CNIO

Finland

• AALTO Summer Internship(3 months)

Austria

• ISternship Summer Student Program, IST Austria

Turkey

• Koç Üniversitesi Research Program
• Sabancı Üniversitesi PURE Summer Research Program

Russia

• HSE University, Moscow Computer Science Internships

Asia

Japan

• University of Tokyo, Amgen Scholarship Japan (only Bio Tech and Bio-Chem Programs)
• OIST Research Internship Program, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
• NIMS (Japan)
• Hennge Global Internship Program, for remote internship in a Japan-based tech start-up.
• [Internet Initiative Japan Internship] (https://www.iijlab.net/en/career/internship.html), for on-site tech internship in Japan.

South Korea

• GIST Global Internship Program (South Korea)

Taiwan

• ITRI Global Internship program
• TEEP@Asia (Taiwan)
• TEEP Internship, Taiwan

Hong Kong

• IVISP, HKUST (only for senior year undergraduates + postgraduates)
• SURP, CUHK
• SURP (Hongkong)

India

• ICTS LONG TERM VISITING STUDENTS PROGRAM for both International and Indian Students. Aims to provide opportunities to students of science, mathematics and engineering to spend a longer period of time (1 or 2 semesters).
• ICTS SN BHATT Memorial Excellence Fellowship for Undergraduate students of science, mathematics and engineering, who are in their third, fourth or fifth year of the program are eligible to apply.
• INSA-IASc-NASI SRFP for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Chemistry, Earth and Planetary sciences, Engineering including computer sciences, Life sciences, mathematics and physics. The fellowship period is 56 days and is quite prestigious for anyone who wishes to go into the field of research.

Indonesia

• Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Lab-Based Internship

Thailand

• Faculty of Engineering Kasetsart University internship/training/research programs
• Faculty of Engineering King Mongkut University of North Bangkok Exchange/internship programs

Middle East

Israel

• Summer Intern at the Kupcinet Getz International Summer Science School of the Weizmann Institute of Science

Saudi Arabia

• KAUST (Saudi Arabia)

United Arab Emirates

• Research internship program for AI

Australia & Oceania

Australia

• UNSW Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Internship
• UNSW Research Internship (Australia)

Worldwide

🌍 Multiple Countries

• IPAM UCLA, RIPS Program
• Amgen Scholars Program
• UX Research Internship, Red Hat
• Allen Institute for AI, Research and Engineering Internships

🗺️ Global Programs for Indian Students

• ICTS Summer research program, by ICTS-TIFR.
• Shastri Research Student Fellowship by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
• Viterbi India Program, sponsored by IUSSTF and USC Viterbi
• Khorana Program for Scholars, sponsored by IUSSTF
• Charpak Global Scholarship, funded by French Embassy in India
• IBM Blue Mix Research Internship
• IBM Extreme Blue (limited to IITs and NITs)
• LIGO IndiGo at CalTech, funded by US NSF
• Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2021, IISc, IAS, INS
• Quantitative Research Summer Internship, WorldQuant India
• Internship At CMI, Chennai Mathematical Institute
• Shastri Student Internship Project, Eligible universities here
• Cisco Summer internship
• IISER Kolkata Summer Student Research Programme, IISER Kolkata
• Bhaba Atomic Research Centre
• IIIT HYDERABAD
• Summer Program, CeNSE IISc Bangalore

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