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Computer Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Awards (as of February 2008)

Text courtesy of Peter Lee, Professor and Department Head, CSD.

Table Data courtesy of Tom Horton, University of Virginia

Tom Horton of the University of Virginia has put together a nice spreadsheet, forwarded by Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington. The spreadsheet lists the CRA winners since 1999. Here is the list of the top 25 schools, ranked by total number of CRA undergraduate awards:

Total CRA Awards	School	Winners	Runner Ups	Finalists	Honorable Mentions
29	Carnegie Mellon University	2	2	5	20
29	University of Washington	2	2	4	21
28	University of Virginia	0	0	2	26
22	University of California	0	1	2	19
20	University of British Columbia	0	1	1	18
18	Brown University	0	1	2	15
16	Harvard University	0	2	4	10
15	University of Texas	0	0	3	12
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	0	0	2	12
13	Harvey Mudd College	0	1	1	11
13	Dartmouth College	2	0	0	11
13	Columbia University	0	0	3	10
13	University of Waterloo	0	1	2	10
12	University of Rochester	1	0	1	10
11	Drexel University	1	0	2	8
11	Cornell University	2	1	1	7
8	Purdue University	0	0	0	8
7	University of Maryland	0	1	0	6
7	Princeton University	2	0	1	4
6	Mississippi State University	0	0	0	6
6	Texas A&M University	0	0	0	6
6	Duke University	0	1	0	5
6	University of Delaware	0	1	0	5
6	California Institute of Technology	1	0	0	5
6	University of California	0	0	2	4

As you can see, Carnegie Mellon and University of Washington are ranked #1 in terms of total number of students recognized. Carnegie Mellon, University of Washington, Darmouth, Cornell, and Princeton have the most CRA undergraduate award winners, with two each. Carnegie Mellon also has the most runners-up and finalists, and is third in honorable mentions.

See details of the SCS CRA Student Awards.

Also, see a more complete list of student award winners in our program: all SCS Student Awards Page

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