Research-Internships-for-Undergraduates

What the list covers

Research Internships for Undergraduates is a non-exhaustive list of opportunities available to undergraduate students. The README notes that many of the listed positions focus on Indian students, and it invites readers who know a missing or broken link to submit an issue or pull request, since contributions are reviewed and merged regularly. The list is organized by world region, with sections for North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Oceania, and a Worldwide group. Within each region the entries are grouped by country and link directly to the host institution's program page. Examples in the README range from NASA and Caltech SURF at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States, to the Max Planck institutes and CERN summer program in Europe, to OIST in Japan and KAUST in Saudi Arabia. The Worldwide section gathers programs that span multiple countries, such as the Amgen Scholars Program and the Allen Institute for AI internships. The repository is maintained in collaboration with Zapply, whose website and Chrome extension for autofilling applications are promoted alongside the list, giving students a faster path from discovering a program to submitting an application through the companion tooling. The companion Zapply Chrome extension autofills job applications in seconds and tracks applications with streaks and commitment awards, according to the README that accompanies this list.

Regions and sample programs

The North America section lists United States programs such as the LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science, the Santa Fe Institute Summer Research Experience, Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute for Summer Scholars, Princeton and Stanford summer research fellowships, and Purdue's Summer Research Opportunities Program, plus a University of Alberta research experience for Canada. Europe spans Germany's Max Planck institutes and RWTH Aachen UROP International, the United Kingdom's DSSGx fellowship at Warwick, Switzerland's CERN Summer Student Program and EPFL offerings, and programs in France, Spain, Finland, Austria, Turkey, and Russia. Asia includes the University of Tokyo, OIST in Japan, GIST in South Korea, ITRI in Taiwan, HKUST and CUHK in Hong Kong, and a large set of India programs such as ICTS and IISER Kolkata. The Middle East covers Israel's Weizmann institute, KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and an AI research internship in the UAE. Australia lists UNSW engineering research internships. The Global Programs for Indian Students subsection collects fellowships like the Khorana Program, the Shastri fellowships, and the Viterbi India Program, reflecting the list's strong India focus and its aim to surface both domestic and international routes for that audience. The Middle East section covers Israel's Weizmann institute, KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and an AI research internship in the UAE, rounding out the global coverage of the list.

Community and related repos

The README frames the list as a community resource and points readers to a Discord server and a LinkedIn page where students can connect and seek advice from a network of peers and new grads. It also cross-links a family of related repositories maintained by the same Zapply project, including New Grad Jobs 2027, Software Engineering Jobs, Data Science Jobs, Hardware Engineering Jobs, Healthcare Jobs, resume samples, an interview handbook, and several internship-specific lists such as Internships 2027, Underclassmen Internships, Canada Jobs, and awesome ML internships. This connected set lets a student move from research programs to broader job and internship tracking. The repository metadata records 195 stars and 6 forks, with a last update on 2026-08-24, and it carries no stated programming language or license in the metadata. The value of the project is its curation: a single page that aggregates dozens of institutional program links by region, saving undergraduates the work of discovering each lab's deadline and eligibility rules one at a time. The contributor driven model also means newly opened programs can appear quickly when a reader files a pull request. The repository carries no stated programming language or license in its metadata, and it presents itself as a curated directory rather than a piece of installable software.

Editorial conclusion

The repository records 195 stars and a last update of 2026-08-24, and the README notes many listed positions focus on Indian students.