# Universities

University involvement in open source varies widely. For instance, a university could have: a fully structured Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs); a lab or department dedicated to open source; unstructured work done by university staff; investment in open source from libraries or researchers; use of open source edtech internally; taught courses on open source with students; and so on. Because of this, providing a list of universities active in the open source space is hard, and is best thought of as broken down by categories or by usage.

## OSPOs

The following universities have an office which has the standing of an Open Source Program Office:

- [Carnegie Mellon University](./carnegie-mellon-university.md)
- [CERN](./cern.md) - Research instution
- [George Washington University](./george-washington.md)
- [Georgia Institute of Technology](./georgia-institute-of-technology.md)
- [Johns Hopkins University](./johns-hopkins-university.md)
- [Lero](./lero.md) - Research Center for a collection of universities
- [Penn State](./penn-state.md)
- [Rochester Institute of Technology](./rit.md)
- [Saint Louis University](./slu.md)
- [SnT, University of Luxembourg](./snt-university-of-luxembourg.md)
- [Stanford University](./stanford-university.md)
- [Syracuse University](./syracuse.md)
- [Trinity College Dublin](./trinity-college-dublin.md)
- [University of California Berkeley](./university-of-california-berkeley.md)
- [University of California Davis](./university-of-california-davis.md)
- [University of California Los Angeles](./university-of-california-los-angeles.md)
- [University of California San Diego](./university-of-california-san-diego.md)
- [University of California Santa Barbara](./university-of-california-santa-barbara.md)
- [University of California Santa Cruz](./university-of-california-santa-cruz.md)
- [University of Texas Austin](./university-of-texas-austin.md)
- [University of Vermont](./university-of-vermont.md)
- [University of Wisconsin-Madison](./university-of-wisconsin-madison.md)

## Labs

There's a host of universities which don't have open source program offices, but which do have labs which do a considerable amount of open source work.

- [Oregon State University](./oregon-state-university.md)
- [University of Nebraska Bridge Lab](https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/bridge/index.php) – This lab includes [Matt Germonprez](https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/about/faculty-staff/matt-germonprez.php), who works closely with [CHAOSS](https://chaoss.community/). <!-- TODO Link to Chaoss internally -->
- UMass Amherst [Open Source Computer Lab](https://www.umass.edu/opensource/content/mission.html)
- University at Albany [OSI Lab](https://www.albany.edu/cehc/osi-lab)

## Universities without OSPOs

There are also universities that develop open source software, but don't have policies publicly set for staff or researchers.

- [ETH Zurich](./eth-zurich.md)
- [Indiana University](./universities/indiana.md)
- [Purdue University](./universities/purdue.md)
- [Rey Juan Carlos University](./rey-juan-carlos-university.md)
- [Stony Brook University](./stony-brook-university.md)
- [University at Buffalo](./university-at-buffalo.md)
- [Université Grenoble Alpes](./université-grenoble-alpes.md)
- [University College London](./university-college-london.md)
- [University of Cambridge](https://www.dns.cam.ac.uk/about/floss.html) – IT services has some code available.
- [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign](universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign.md)
- [University of Michigan](./university-of-michigan.md)
- [University of Notre Dame](./universities/notre-dame.md)
- [University of Pennsylvania](./university-of-pennsylvania.md)
- [University of Victoria](./university-of-victoria.md)