Undergraduate Research Internships
Searchable resource databaseA curated database of research internship and summer-programme opportunities. Entries are preserved from the original resource page and made searchable here.
| Internship Program | Organisation | Country | Eligibility | Subject | Deadline | Duration | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICTS Long Term Visiting Students Program | ICTS-TIFR | India | 5 | Physics, Maths, Biology | 05-Mar | 1-2 semesters | Funded |
| S. N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program | ICTS-TIFR | India | 2*, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Biology | 07-Jan | 2 months | Funded |
| Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) | JNCASR-INSA-IASc-NASI | India | 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, ECS | 28-Feb | 2 months | Funded |
| Visiting Students Research Programme (VSRP) | TIFR | India | 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology | Jan-Feb | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | BARC | India | 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths | Rolling | 2-6 months | - |
| Summer Fellowship Programme | IIT Madras | India | 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths | End Mar | 2 months | Funded |
| Spark internship | IIT Roorkee | India | 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology | End Mar | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Internship program for summer | IIT Bhubaneswar | India | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology | End-April | 1-2 months | - |
| Summer Research Programme | IMSC Chennai | India | 2, 3, 4 | Theoretical Physics, Maths, Computational Biology | - | 2 months | Funded |
| National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) | HBCSE (TIFR) | India | 1 | Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology | Oct | 1-2 months | Not Funded |
| Project Oriented Biological Education (POBE) | JNCASR | India | 1 | Biology | Apr | 1-2 months (three consecutive years) | Funded |
| Project Oriented Chemistry Education (POCE) | JNCASR | India | 1 (BSc) | Chemistry | Mid-Apr | 1-2 months (three consecutive years) | Funded |
| Undergraduate Associateship in Physics and Biophysical Sciences | SINP Kolkata | India | 2 | Physics, Biophysics | End-Apr | 3 months (spread over UG years) | Funded |
| Summer Student Program | SINP Kolkata | India | 4 | Physics, Biophysics | End-Mar | 2 months | Funded |
| Summer Research Program | S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences | India | 4, 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biophysics | Mid-Apr | 2 months | Funded |
| IISER Pune Summer Student Program | IISER Pune | India | 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology | End-Apr | 1-2 months | Not Funded |
| Vacation Students Programme | IUCAA Pune | India | 3, 4 | Physics | March-April | 1-2 months | Funded |
| IIST Summer internship | IIST | India | 3 | Physics | End April | 2-3 months | Not Funded |
| Summer Undergraduate Research Exposure (SURE) | IIT Hyderabad | India | 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | 22-Feb | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Summer Internship | IIT Ropar | India | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry | 27-Mar | 1-2 months | Funded |
| IISER Bhopal Summer Internship Program | IISER Bhopal | India | 2, 3, 4 | Listed Projects | 16-Apr | 1-2 months | Not Funded |
| Summer Project Program | NISER Bhubaneswar | India | 3, 4, 5 | Physics | 20-Apr | 1-2 months | Funded |
| Summer Internship Program | PRL Ahmedabad | India | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, ECS, Chemistry | 01-May | 1-2 months | Partially Funded |
| IISER-K Summer Student Research Programme | IISER Kolkata | India | - | Listed Projects | 10-Apr | 2 months | Not Funded |
| Summer Internship Program | IIIT Allahabad | India | - | Contact faculty | 11-May | 2-3 months | Costs |
| Summer Internship Programme | Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy | India | 8th sem | Physics, ECS, Chemistry | 31-Mar | 2 months | Funded |
| Summer Internship | IIT Palakkad | India | 4, 5 | Listed Projects | 14-Apr | 1-2 months | Funded |
| Summer Research Internship Program | IIT Gandhinagar | India | - | - | Mar | - | Funded |
| SURGE | IIT Kanpur | India | 4, 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | 15-Feb | 2 months | Funded |
| Summer Training | Bose Institute | India | 3, 4, 5 | Biology, Physics, Chemistry | 20-Mar | 2 months | - |
| Summer Intern Fellowship | IIT Kharagpur | India | 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Chemistry (listed projects) | 29-Feb | - | Funded |
| Summer Research Program | IISER Mohali | India | 2, 3, 4 | Listed Projects | 14-Apr | 2-3 months | Maybe Funded |
| Physics of Life Monsoon School | NCBS | India | 3, 4, 5 | Biology, Physics | Early Mar | 10 days | - |
| Biostatistics- A User Perspective Workshop | IISER Pune | India | - | Biostatistics | Late Nov | 3-4 days | Costs |
| National Centre for Earth Science Studies | National Center for Earth Science Studies | India | 3, 4 | ECS | 30-Sep | 2-3 months | - |
| Summer Programme in Mathematics (SPIM) | Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) | India | 4, 5 | Maths | First half of April | 1-2 months | Not Funded |
| Khorana Program for Scholars | Indo-US Science and Technology Forum | US | 4 | Biology | 15-Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Caltech SURF | Caltech | US | 2, 3, 4 | Phyics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | 22-Feb | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Space Astronomy Summer Program | Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) | US | 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Astronomy, Maths | Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Chemers Neustein Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program | Rockefeller University | US | 2, 3, 4 | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Interdisciplinary | End Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, Data Science, CS | - | 3 months | Funded |
| Robotics Institute for Summer Scholars (RISS) | Carnegie Mellon University | US | - | Physics, Robotics, AI, CS | Dec | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Santa Fe Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) | Santa Fe Institute | US | 1, 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Maths, Biology | Early-Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Summer Research Program (Multiple Programs) | Princeton University | US | check | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | - | - | - |
| International Student Research Internship Program | McKelvey School of Engineering | US | 2, 3 | Physics, Chemistry, CS | 15-Feb | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Global Talent Attraction Program | Indiana University Bloomington | US | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | CS, Data Science | 15-Dec | 2-3 months | - |
| Biology and Chemistry Computational Research (BioChemCoRe) | UC San Diego | US | - | Biology, Physics, Chemistry | - | - | - |
| Institute for Creative Technologies Summer Internship | ICT, USC Viterbi | US | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Simulation, Interactive Media, Virtual Reality | - | 3 months | - |
| Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) | Stanford | US | 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Engineering, Programming, Chemistry | 01-Feb | 2 months | Funded |
| Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Scholarship | Yale | US | 2,3 | Physics | 15-Feb | 1-2 months | Funded |
| LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science | Lunar and Planetary Institute | US | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Maths, ECS | Early Dec | 2-3 months | Funded |
| MITACS Globalink Research Internship | Canadian Universities | Canada | 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | Mid Sept | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Student internship Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | Albert Einstein Institute | Germany | - | Physics | 01-Mar | - | Not Funded |
| DAAD WISE Scholarship | German public institutes | Germany | 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | 16-Oct | 2-3 months | Scholarship |
| Summer Student Program HZDR | Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf | Germany | 4, 5 | Physics, Biology | 28-Feb | 1-2 months (July-Sept) | Funded |
| Max Planck Summer Internship Program (MaxSIP) | IMPRS | Germany | 2, 3, 4, 5 | Biology, Chemistry, Biophysics | 15-Feb | - | Funded |
| Summer internships at MPIA | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) | Germany | 3, 4, 5 | Physics | 09-Feb | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Summer Research Programme | European Southern Observatory (ESO) | Germany | 3, 4, 5 | Physics | Jan | 1-2 months | Funded |
| CERN openlab summer student programme | CERN | Switzerland | 4, 5 | CS, Physics | 30-Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| EPFL Excellence in Engineering (E3) Program | EPFL | Switzerland | 3, 4, 5 | Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Physics, CS | Nov-Dec (?) | 2-3 months | Funded |
| INSPIRE Potentials-Marvel Master Fellowship | EPFL | Switzerland | 5 | Physics, Chemistry | Jul-Aug | More than 3 months | Funded |
| Summer at EPFL | EPFL | Switzerland | 2, 3, 4, 5 | Engg | 01-Dec | 2-3 months | Funded |
| ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships | Swissnex | Switzerland | 3, 4, 5 (find PI) | Biology, ECS, others (check) | opens 30 Sept | - | Funded |
| CERN Summer Student Program | CERN | Switzerland | 4, 5 | Physics, Maths | Nov-Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| INSPIRE Potentials-Marvel Master Fellowship | EPFL | Switzerland | 5 | Physics, Chemistry | Mid July to mid august | More than 3 months | Funded |
| Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS) | Leiden Observatory and ESA | Netherlands | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics | - | 1-2 months | Funded |
| ISTERNSHIP | ISTA | Austria | 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology | Dec-Jan | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Scientific Internships | ISTA | Austria | 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology | Rolling | More than 3 months | Funded |
| Vienna Biocenter Summer School | Vienna Biocenter (VBC) | Austria | 2, 3, 4 | Biology | Jan-Feb | - | Funded |
| Future Research Talent Award | Australian National University | Australia | 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | Oct | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Data Science for Social Good (DSSGx) | University of Warwick | UK | 4, 5 | DS, ML, AI | 16-Dec | 3 months | Funded |
| Warwick Statistics Internship Scheme | University of Warwick | UK | 3, 4, 5 | Maths | 12-Feb | 2 months | Funded |
| Charpak Scholarship Program | - | France | 2, 3, 4, 5 | - | Early-Mar | - | Scholarship |
| NIGINTERN | National Institute of Genetics | Japan | 4 | Biology | End-Feb | - | Partial |
| University of Tokyo-Research Internship Program (UTRIP) | University of Tokyo | Japan | 2, 3, 4, 5 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | 10-Jan | 1-2 months | Funded |
| Kupcinet-Getz International Summer School | Weizmann Institute of science | Israel | 1, 2, 3, 4 | Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, ECS | January | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Amgen Scholars Program | Multiple | Worldwide | check | check | check | 2-3 months | Funded |
| Online | Polymath Jr | - | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Maths | Early Apr | 1-2 months | Not Funded |
Additional resources from the original page: Research Internships for Undergraduates GitHub; internships PDF by IISER Bhopal; Projectyl for physics; AstroBetter for astronomy; mathsprograms.org; atmschools.org. The original page also invited readers to submit additional programmes and report broken links.