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I've been looking at some literature comparing computer science
education between countries and noticed that the results of ACM
International Collegiate Programing Competition are often brought up
as a sign of a particular country being strong or week.  However,
people usually cite a single year and given that the winners tend to
move around, looking at one year at a time could be very misleading.
So, I decided to try to look at the ACM ICPC data across multiple years
(1998-2005), in order to see which countries and universities have
_consistently_ scored in the top 50.  This involved finding the
results from all years on the [ICPC
Website](http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/), cleaning up the data to make
sure the same school doesn't appear by different names, and assigning
schools to countries.

The table below shows the universities ranked first by the number of
time they scored in the top 50 and then by their best rank.  For each
school, the table shows the ranks that they got when they were in the
top 50.  The superscript number next to the rank is the year when this
rank was achieved.  For countries, I marked "California" separately
from the res of the US because of my own interest - it's not a
political statement about California vs. Jesusland.

<table class='real_table'><tr>
<tr><td>University of Waterloo</td><td>Canada</td><td>1'99 2'00 3'98 3'02 4'01 4'05 15'04 21'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics</td><td>Russia</td><td>1'04 3'99 3'01 3'03 3'05 4'00 11'98 11'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Warsaw University</td><td>Poland</td><td>1'03 6'01 9'98 10'04 11'99 11'02 17'05 22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Shanghai Jiaotong University</td><td>China</td><td>1'02 1'05 6'03 7'00 11'98 13'04 14'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>St. Petersburg State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>1'00 1'01 2'98 9'99 17'05 27'04 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Moscow State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>2'03 2'05 9'02 11'00 14'01 17'98 18'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Albert Einstein University Ulm</td><td>Germany</td><td>3'00 5'01 10'03 18'99 18'02 27'04 29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Tsinghua University</td><td>China</td><td>4'00 4'02 5'03 7'98 11'99 11'01 13'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Duke University</td><td>USA</td><td>5'99 8'02 11'98 14'01 22'00 29'05 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>California Institute of Technology</td><td>California</td><td>7'04 9'00 13'03 17'98 27'02 29'01 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Virginia Tech</td><td>USA</td><td>2'01 11'98 15'00 18'99 21'03 27'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Belarusian State University</td><td>Belarus</td><td>3'04 17'05 18'02 21'03 22'00 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Zhongshan University</td><td>China</td><td>8'03 11'00 11'04 14'01 17'05 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Alberta</td><td>Canada</td><td>8'98 8'00 11'99 14'01 29'05 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td><td>USA</td><td>2'02 5'04 7'01 15'00 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Stanford University</td><td>California</td><td>5'02 13'04 14'01 15'00 24'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Harvard University</td><td>USA</td><td>8'99 9'04 10'01 22'00 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Charles University, Prague</td><td>Czech Republic</td><td>1'98 10'00 11'02 14'01 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Toronto</td><td>Canada</td><td>11'00 14'01 18'02 28'99 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology</td><td>Bangladesh</td><td>11'00 24'98 27'04 29'01 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>KTH - Royal Institute of Technology</td><td>Sweden</td><td>2'04 7'05 11'02 13'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>National Taiwan University</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>6'04 10'99 14'01 17'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Fudan University</td><td>China</td><td>6'05 7'02 13'03 15'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of California at Berkeley</td><td>California</td><td>7'99 11'98 13'03 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Kyoto University</td><td>Japan</td><td>7'00 14'01 18'99 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest</td><td>Romania</td><td>10'98 10'05 11'99 18'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universidad de Buenos Aires</td><td>Argentina</td><td>10'02 12'03 22'00 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of New South Wales</td><td>Australia</td><td>11'01 11'02 15'04 21'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Seoul National University</td><td>Korea</td><td>8'01 11'02 15'04 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Carnegie Mellon University</td><td>USA</td><td>11'99 11'00 21'03 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</td><td>Korea</td><td>13'03 14'01 15'04 18'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Novosibirsk State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>13'05 15'00 18'02 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Yonsei University</td><td>Korea</td><td>13'05 21'03 27'04 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>National University of Singapore</td><td>Singapore</td><td>13'03 18'99 22'00 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Cornell University</td><td>USA</td><td>18'99 22'00 27'02 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Otago</td><td>New Zeland</td><td>11'99 27'02 27'04 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of California, San Diego</td><td>California</td><td>22'00 27'02 29'01 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nanyang Technological University</td><td>Singapore</td><td>11'98 27'04 29'05 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Comenius University</td><td>Slovakia</td><td>4'03 18'99 29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Saratov State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>6'02 7'03 17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Central Florida</td><td>USA</td><td>11'00 14'01 27'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sharif University of Technology</td><td>Iran</td><td>9'01 17'05 18'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Texas at Austin</td><td>USA</td><td>21'03 27'02 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sofia University</td><td>Bulgaria</td><td>17'98 27'02 29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The Chinese University of Hong Kong</td><td>China</td><td>8'00 27'02 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Rijksuniversiteit Groningen</td><td>Netherlands</td><td>18'99 29'01 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Iowa State University</td><td>USA</td><td>22'00 29'01 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Norwegian University of Science and Technology</td><td>Norway</td><td>8'05 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Izhevsk State Technical University</td><td>Russia</td><td>8'04 9'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Umeå University</td><td>Sweden</td><td>4'98 11'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The University of Tokyo</td><td>Japan</td><td>11'03 18'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The University of Hong Kong</td><td>China</td><td>12'05 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Queen's University</td><td>Canada</td><td>12'04 27'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universidade de São Paulo</td><td>Brazil</td><td>14'01 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Zhejiang University</td><td>China</td><td>13'03 15'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Cape Town</td><td>South Africa</td><td>13'03 15'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Calgary</td><td>Canada</td><td>15'04 27'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nizhny Novgorod State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>15'04 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Bucharest University</td><td>Romania</td><td>4'99 15'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Ural State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>14'01 17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of British Columbia</td><td>Canada</td><td>15'04 17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Perm State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>4'04 17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Amirkabir University of Technology</td><td>Iran</td><td>17'05 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The University of Queensland</td><td>Australia</td><td>22'00 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of the Witwatersrand</td><td>South Africa</td><td>27'02 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Tokyo Institute of Technology</td><td>Japan</td><td>21'03 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The University of Chicago</td><td>USA</td><td>27'02 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Petrozavodsk State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>18'02 27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Shanghai University</td><td>China</td><td>24'98 28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The University of Melbourne</td><td>Australia</td><td>2'00 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Southern Ural State University</td><td>Russia</td><td>15'00 29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Wisconsin - Madison</td><td>USA</td><td>11'02 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universidade Estadual de Campinas</td><td>Brazil</td><td>29'01 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>American University in Cairo</td><td>Egypt</td><td>29'01 30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Auckland</td><td>New Zeland</td><td>29'98 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Arkansas</td><td>USA</td><td>18'99 43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Ural State TUniversity</td><td>Russia</td><td>17'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Wroclaw</td><td>Poland</td><td>5'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Washington</td><td>USA</td><td>11'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Virginia</td><td>USA</td><td>28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Valladolid</td><td>Spain</td><td>29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Tartu</td><td>Estonia</td><td>27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Sydney</td><td>Australia</td><td>14'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Pretoria</td><td>South Africa</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Oldenburg</td><td>Germany</td><td>18'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of New Brunswick</td><td>Canada</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</td><td>USA</td><td>30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Minnesota - Morris</td><td>USA</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</td><td>USA</td><td>27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Kentucky</td><td>USA</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Illinois</td><td>USA</td><td>17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University of Erlangen-Nuernberg</td><td>Germany</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University Texas - Austin</td><td>USA</td><td>17'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University Missouri - Rolla</td><td>USA</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>University Central Florida</td><td>USA</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universiteit Leiden</td><td>Netherlands</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</td><td>Spain</td><td>15'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universidade Federal de Pernambuco</td><td>Brazil</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</td><td>Spain</td><td>15'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Ufa State Technical University of Aviation</td><td>Russia</td><td>13'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>The Johns Hopkins University</td><td>USA</td><td>28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Taras Schevchenko Kiev National University</td><td>Ukraine</td><td>9'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology</td><td>USA</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Poznan University of Technology</td><td>Poland</td><td>11'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Peking University</td><td>China</td><td>11'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>PUC Rio de Janeiro</td><td>Brazil</td><td>24'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orel State Technical University</td><td>Russia</td><td>27'02 </td></tr>
<tr><td>National Tsing Hua University</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>National Taiwan Normal University</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>National Chiao-Tung University</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Melbourne University</td><td>Australia</td><td>6'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>McGill Poutines</td><td>Canada</td><td>17'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Massachussets Institute of Technology</td><td>USA</td><td>5'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Marina Nayanova University of Samara</td><td>Russia</td><td>21'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Macalester College</td><td>USA</td><td>28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Linköping University</td><td>Sweden</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University</td><td>Kyrgyzstan</td><td>15'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Jagiellonian University - Krakow</td><td>Poland</td><td>27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica</td><td>Brazil</td><td>29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Institute of Physics and Technology, NTU of Ukraine "KPI"</td><td>Ukraine</td><td>30'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Information and Communications University</td><td>Korea</td><td>17'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Indian Institute of Technology, Madras</td><td>India</td><td>29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi</td><td>India</td><td>29'01 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay</td><td>India</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>ITESM</td><td>Mexico</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Harvey Mudd College</td><td>USA</td><td>28'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Harding University</td><td>USA</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Georgia Institute of Technology</td><td>USA</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>George Mason University</td><td>USA</td><td>22'00 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Florida Tech</td><td>USA</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>East China University of Science and Technology</td><td>China</td><td>43'03 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Donghua University</td><td>China</td><td>27'04 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Darmstadt University T.</td><td>Germany</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Case Western University</td><td>USA</td><td>24'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>California Polytechnic State University</td><td>California</td><td>6'99 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Binus University</td><td>Indonesia</td><td>29'98 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Altai State Technical University</td><td>Russia</td><td>29'05 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg</td><td>Germany</td><td>2'99 </td></tr>
</tr></table>

_(The table was updated on Nov. 25, 2005)_

One thing that I can't get about this list, however, is the absence of
India.  Do Indian students not participate because of the costs
involved?

You can get the data file [here](http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/icpc/icpc-1998-2005.txt).

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