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IMC 2008
contestants 283 · problems 12 (6+6) · scale 0–20 · per-problem yes

Click any row to unfold its full profile — roster, per-problem chart, rank on every metric. Column headers sort the table (# is the place under the current sort); definitions live in the methodology at the bottom of the page.

unofficial grouping — built by us from the affiliation printed next to each contestant in the individual results, not an IMC classification
#universitynbestscoreaveragemedianFSTHMleague
1Eotvos University Budapest7220757.7200.314052··First Prize
2Moscow State University5220737196.315631·1First Prize
3Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University11190689.3183.3137641·First Prize
4Sharif University of Technology7191661.3172.31386·1·First Prize
5École Polytechnique Paris8160609.1158.713553··First Prize
6Jagiellonian University6220563.3149.3105132·Second Prize
7Belarusian State University4165560.314313231··First Prize
8Tel Aviv University4202539.5140.3109.52·2·Third Prize
9Warsaw University4163527.8133.711922··Second Prize
10Princeton University7153519.61401284·21First Prize
11Charles University Prague6145493.2127.7114.5132·Second Prize
12Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn3123476119118·3··Second Prize
13Jacobs University, Bremen4121439.8112.7108.5·31·Second Prize
14Belgrade University4122417107.7100.5·22·Third Prize
15Hanoi University of Science4144401.810382.5112·Third Prize
16Comenius University4169388.3101.367.51·21Third Prize
17Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica6120386106.762.5·212Third Prize
18Amirkabir University of Technology5129381.6101.7791112Third Prize
19Sofia University "St Kliment Ohridski"4103377.598.796.5·3·1Second Prize
20University of Helsinki3140368921262···
21Politechnica Bucharest312435689112·2·1HM
22University of Tehran5117354.294.781·122Third Prize
23University of Tartu3126346.786.79511·1HM
24Odessa National Mechnikov University3109329.382.372·12·Third Prize
25Yerevan State University4130305.580551·12HM
26University of Michigan4110300.379.764.5·111HM
27National Technical University of Athens9108282.379.745·132Third Prize
28Helsinki University of Technology4127278.873461··3HM
29Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya395278.769.789·111HM
30University of Zagreb1195271.476.733·135Third Prize
31Universidad Nacional de Colombia386254.763.763··21HM
32University of Szeged4121243.564.736.5·11·
33Ljubljana University478238.561.353··22HM
34Nanyang Technological University474231.36053··22HM
35Budapest Semesters in Mathematics313321654261··1
36Trinity College Dublin573213.65747··13HM
37Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca390201.350.332··12HM
38University of Oslo355181.345.351··12HM
39Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME363162.740.747··11
40Georg-August-Universität Göttingen479157.84122··13HM
41National University of Athens349134.733.728···3HM
42University of Valencia436125.832.731···3HM
43Universidad Pontificia Comillas581102.228.31··1·
44University of Warwick4196316.315···2
45University of Cyprus61626.27.33···1
46Mongolian University of Science and Technology3410.72.72····
fewer than 3 contestants — individual results, not team statistics
Sharif Institute of Technology12101···
PUC-Rio11901···
Masaryk University214011··
Universidad Complutense de Madrid2107·11·
West University Timisoara1103·1··
Universiteit van Amsterdam2103·1·1
Princeton U. & Al. I. Cuza U. Iasi1102·1··
University of Bucharest298·2··
Open University, Israel197·1··
Sergio Arboleda / Andes195·1··
K.U. Leuven293··2·
Technion, Israel190··1·
Universiteit Leiden189··1·
Gajah Mada University, Indonesia186··1·
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin184··1·
Universiteit Utrecht278··11
UNICAMP174··1·
IME-USP ( University of Sao Paulo)172··1·
Universidad de Zaragoza167··1·
Amirkabir University of Ttechnology165··1·
National University of Mongolia263··1·
Budapest University of Technology and Economic s263··11
University of Turku261··1·
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca258··2·
Indonesia University248···2
Kyiv Polytechnical Institute147···1
KAIST147···1
Technical University "Gh. Asachi"144···1
Shahid Beheshti Univercity241···2
ICMC-USP136···1
Universidad de los Andes132···1
University of Viena229···1
Adam Mickiewicz University228···2
Samarquand State University126···1
Rousse University123···1
ASE Bucharest222···1
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore121···1
University of Primorska119···1
K.N. Toosi Universiy of Technology117···1
Brawijaya University, Indonesia113····
Budapest Semester in Mathematics113····
Technical University - Gabrovo111····
Sapientia EMTE Corunca28····
Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola17····
University College London25····
Hanyang University12····
Universidade "Agostonho Neto"22····
St-P State U of InformationTechnologies,Mechanic s and Optics10····
National University of Shipbuilding10····

One row per university: everyone printed under that affiliation, team or not.
283 contestants · 95 universities (46 ranked) · prize cutoffs: First ≥ 126 · Second ≥ 95 · Third ≥ 53 · Honourable Mention ≥ 16

Methodology

Grouping. Contestants are grouped by the university printed in the official individual results, after a safe cleanup (case, diacritics, punctuation). Contestants with no listed affiliation form a separate unranked bucket. This view is unofficial; the IMC team contest (registered teams, incl. national and combined squads) is a different ranking.

Score formulas. official = sum of the top-3 totals + mean of all members (the IMC team-contest formula used in 2006–2019, applied here to university rosters); top-3 avg, top-5 avg (needs n ≥ 5), median, mean, best. The # column is the place under the current sort (ties share a place) — sort by any column and # becomes the rank in that rating; the default sort is the selected score formula, and clicking # returns to it. Only universities with n ≥ 3 are ranked; smaller ones are listed below with their individual results — facts, not statistics.

Median. For an even roster the median is the mean of the two middle totals — never the upper one, so a 4-person team gets no free half-step up.

A caveat on the official formula: its team-average term is not size-monotone — bringing one extra weaker contestant can lower the score (the top-3 formulas and the league never punish a bigger delegation). Keep that in mind when comparing selective and inclusive teams under the default ranking.

League = the prize level of the team’s third-best contestant, measured against this year’s real prize cutoffs. Third-best, because that grades the whole leading trio (the classic “team of three”), and because it is monotone: bringing one more student can never lower it — a median-based league would punish exactly the teams that bring many students. The median is shown separately in the passport. Prize cutoffs are used because they are published, understood by everyone, and auto-adjust to each year’s difficulty — no invented thresholds.

Evenness. balance = 3rd-best / best (1.00 = perfectly even trio); star gap = best − 2nd; without best = where the team would rank after removing its best contestant. Deliberately no mean/std composites: on rosters of 3–5 they reward “even but weak”.

Small-cohort honesty. Team shares are phrased “k/n”, never bare percents; points are only compared within one year (prize shares and percentiles travel across years, points don’t).