Table 1.
Characteristics of quantitative summer research experience programs announced in the American Statistical Association’s online and print venues between 2015 and 2019 for the following types of organizations: academia, government, non-profit research, and industry.
| Year | Academia | Government | Non-profit Research | Industry | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | U | G | N | U | G | N | U | G | N | U | G | |
| 2015 | 4 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 34 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 76 |
| 2016 | 5 | 44 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 132 |
| 2017 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 52 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 34 | 3 | 116 |
| 2018 | 9 | 27 | 46 | 10 | 52 | 7 | 5 | 43 | 5 | 31 | 3 | 122 |
| 2019 | 11 | 43 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 46 | 10 | 36 | 1 | 138 |
N = number of organizations offering summer opportunities to students.
U = Total number of undergraduate student positions announced by N organizations.
G = Total number of graduate student positions announced by N organizations.
NOTE: Not all organizations announced the available number of student positions. When the type of student (undergraduate or graduate) was not specified, those positions were counted as undergraduate positions. Data summarized in this table were retrieved from the individual listings published by the American Statistical Association (2020).