Programmes students miss because they open once a year

The Inorganic and Physical Chemistry department at IISc Bangalore offers a summer research fellowship for chemistry students. Selected students work with an IISc research supervisor for a short summer project.

Programme details vary by annual edition; verify dates and eligibility on the official page.

IISc hosts undergraduate and master's students for two- to three-month research projects with institute faculty, reached through the department and lab openings listed by the institute's outreach office.

IRCC Research Internship Award (RIA)

IIT Bombay

The Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre at IIT Bombay awards research internships that place students with IIT Bombay faculty on funded research projects.

NCBS Research Internships

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Programme details vary by annual edition; verify dates and eligibility on the official page.

Research Teaser Internship

IIIT Hyderabad

IIIT Hyderabad lists Research Teaser Internship offerings among its programmes. These short research-oriented sessions introduce students to selected technical research areas and include project work.

ICTS-TIFR's S. N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program is a summer research programme for science and engineering students. Selected students work with ICTS faculty and postdoctoral fellows on frontier research topics.

SPARK

IIT Roorkee

SPARK is IIT Roorkee's summer internship programme for undergraduate research exposure. Selected interns work with IIT Roorkee faculty on research projects.

Summer Fellowship Programme

IIT Madras

IIT Madras runs a Summer Fellowship Programme for students to undertake a guided research project with IIT Madras faculty. The programme covers engineering, science, humanities, and management areas according to the current call.

Summer Internship Programme

NIT Rourkela

NIT Rourkela runs a summer internship programme that places students from other institutions with its faculty for short research projects.

Summer Research Fellowship Programme

IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi's Summer Research Fellowship Programme lets selected undergraduate and postgraduate students work on research and development projects under IIT Delhi faculty. The fellowship is for students outside IIT Delhi.

Summer Research Internship Programme

IIT Gandhinagar

IIT Gandhinagar's Summer Research Internship Programme brings undergraduate and master's students to campus for faculty-guided research projects. The programme is run as a flagship summer research initiative of IIT Gandhinagar.

Summer Research Program

IISER Mohali

IISER Mohali's Summer Research Program gives selected students research exposure with IISER Mohali faculty. The programme combines a supervised research component with interdisciplinary course work.

Summer Undergraduate Research Exposure

IIT Hyderabad

Summer Undergraduate Research Exposure is IIT Hyderabad's internship programme for non-IIT Hyderabad students. It gives selected students short-term research experience with IIT Hyderabad departments or centres.

Students-Undergraduate Research Graduate Excellence is IIT Kanpur's summer research internship programme. It places selected undergraduate students with IIT Kanpur mentors for research exposure.

TIFR VSRP — central Mumbai programme

TIFR

TIFR's institute-wide Visiting Students' Research Programme hosts students across its schools for a summer of supervised research; individual schools and centres also run their own VSRP tracks.

NCRA-TIFR conducts a Visiting Students' Research Programme in astronomy and astrophysics. Selected students work on theoretical, observational, or computational research projects depending on project availability.

The TIFR School of Mathematics Visiting Students Research Program introduces selected bachelor's and master's students to research in mathematics. Participants work through advanced reading courses or appropriate projects with TIFR mathematicians.