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STOC Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a Theory conference. The dataset covers 50 events from 1970-2025.

STOC 2025 accepted 219 papers out of 735 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 29.8%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
29.8%
2025: 219 accepted / 735 submitted
Years Covered
50
1970-2025
Discipline
Theory
Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Cryptography

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2025 Prague, Czech Republic 219 735 29.8%
2024 Vancouver, Canada 188 592 31.8%
2023 Orlando, USA 155 480 32.3%
2022 Online, Online 135 457 29.5%
2021 Online, Online 143 498 28.7%
2020 Chicago, USA 113 440 25.7%
2019 Phoenix, USA 114 424 26.9%
2018 Los Angeles, California, USA 111 416 26.7%
2017 Montreal, Canada 103 422 24.4%
2016 Cambridge (MA), USA 92 370 24.9%
2015 Portland, USA 93 347 26.8%
2014 New York City, USA 91 319 28.5%
2013 Palo Alto, California, USA 100 360 27.8%
2012 New York City, USA 90 303 29.7%
2011 San Jose, California, USA 84 299 28.1%
2010 Cambridge (MA), USA 78 279 28.0%
2009 Bethesda, USA 77 321 24.0%
2008 Victoria, Canada 80 320 25.0%
2007 San Diego, California, USA 78 312 25.0%
2006 Seattle, USA 78 288 27.1%
2005 Baltimore, USA 84 285 29.5%
2004 Chicago, USA 71 271 26.2%
2003 San Diego, California, USA 80 270 29.6%
2002 Montreal, Canada 91 287 31.7%
2001 Heraklion, Greece 83 230 36.1%
2000 Portland, USA 85 182 46.7%
1998 Dallas, USA 75 169 44.4%
1997 El Paso, USA 75 211 35.5%
1996 Philadelphia, USA 74 201 36.8%
1993 San Diego, California, USA 85 227 37.4%
1990 Baltimore, USA 59 214 27.6%
1989 Seattle, USA 56 196 28.6%
1988 Chicago, USA 53 192 27.6%
1987 New York City, USA 50 165 30.3%
1986 Berkeley, California, USA 47 175 26.9%
1985 Providence, Rhode Island, USA 53 193 27.5%
1984 Washington DC, USA 66 171 38.6%
1983 Boston, USA 54 169 32.0%
1982 San Francisco, California, USA 45 159 28.3%
1981 Milwaukee, USA 43 115 37.4%
1980 Los Angeles, California, USA 47 125 37.6%
1979 Atlanta, USA 37 111 33.3%
1978 San Diego, California, USA 38 120 31.7%
1977 Boulder, USA 31 87 35.6%
1976 Hershey, USA 30 83 36.1%
1975 Albuquerque, USA 31 87 35.6%
1974 Seattle, USA 35 95 36.8%
1972 Denver, USA 29 65 44.6% More than sixty abstracts submitted.
1971 Shaker Heights, USA 23 48 47.9% Nearly fifty papers submitted.
1970 Northampton, USA 27 68 39.7% Nearly seventy papers submitted.

Conference Details

Full Title
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Main Discipline
Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Cryptography
Other Topics
Randomized Algorithms, Quantum Computing, Data Structures, ML Theory, Combinatorics
Parent Organization
ACM, ACM SIGACT
Notes
No conference-level note is recorded.

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