IEEE S&P Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a Security conference. The dataset covers 42 events from 1980-2025.

IEEE S&P 2025 accepted 257 papers out of 1,740 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 14.8%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
14.8%
2025: 257 accepted / 1,740 submitted
Years Covered
42
1980-2025
Discipline
Security
Computer Security, Electronic Privacy

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2025 San Francisco, California, USA 257 1,740 14.8%
2024 San Francisco, California, USA 261 1,466 17.8%
2023 San Francisco, California, USA 199 1,147 17.3%
2022 San Francisco, California, USA 147 1,012 14.5%
2021 Online, Online 115 952 12.1%
2020 Online, Online 104 841 12.4%
2019 San Francisco, California, USA 84 651 12.9%
2018 San Francisco, California, USA 63 533 11.8%
2017 San Jose, California, USA 60 419 14.3%
2016 San Jose, California, USA 55 398 13.8%
2015 San Jose, California, USA 55 407 13.5% from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2014 San Jose, California, USA 44 333 13.2%
2013 San Francisco, California, USA 38 315 12.1%
2012 San Francisco, California, USA 40 307 13.0%
2011 Berkeley, California, USA 34 309 11.0%
2010 Berkeley, California, USA 31 267 11.6%
2009 Oakland, California, USA 26 254 10.2%
2008 Oakland, California, USA 28 249 11.2%
2007 Berkeley, California, USA 29 246 11.8%
2006 Berkeley, California, USA 32 251 12.7%
2005 Oakland, California, USA 17 192 8.9%
2004 Oakland, California, USA 19 186 10.2%
2003 Oakland, California, USA 19 131 14.5%
2002 Berkeley, California, USA 21 95 22.1%
2001 Oakland, California, USA 19 107 17.8%
2000 Oakland, California, USA 18 137 13.1%
1999 Oakland, California, USA 15 61 24.6%
1998 Oakland, California, USA 19 116 16.4%
1997 Oakland, California, USA 23 110 20.9%
1996 Oakland, California, USA 20 67 29.9%
1995 Oakland, California, USA 20 72 27.8%
1994 Oakland, California, USA 19 64 29.7%
1993 Oakland, California, USA 17 70 24.3%
1992 Oakland, California, USA 21 89 23.6%
1991 Oakland, California, USA 28 92 30.4%
1990 Oakland, California, USA 33 99 33.3% Estimated sub
1986 Oakland, California, USA 23 89 25.8%
1985 Oakland, California, USA 25 63 39.7%
1984 Oakland, California, USA 15 39 38.5%
1983 Oakland, California, USA 23 34 67.6%
1982 Oakland, California, USA 19 34 55.9%
1980 Oakland, California, USA 19 19 100.0%

Conference Details

Full Title
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Main Discipline
Computer Security, Electronic Privacy
Other Topics
Cryptography Protocols, System Security, Network Security, Privacy-Preserving, Software Security, Human Factors in Security, AI for Security, ML for Security, Hardware Security
Parent Organization
IEEE, IEEE CompSoc
Notes
No conference-level note is recorded.

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