USENIX Security Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

Name: USENIX Security acceptance rate and submission statistics
Creator: Xovee Xu
License: https://github.com/Xovee/cs-conf-stats

USENIX Security Symposium. is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a Security conference. The dataset covers 27 events from 1998-2025.

USENIX Security 2025 accepted 407 papers out of 2,385 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 17.1%.

Yearly Statistics

Year	Location	Accepted	Submitted	Acceptance Rate	Note
2025	Seattle, USA	407	2,385	17.1%
2024	Philadelphia, USA	417	2,176	19.2%
2023	Anaheim, California, USA	422	1,444	29.2%
2022	Boston, USA	256	1,414	18.1%
2021	Online, Online	246	1,294	19.0%	Estimated sub
2020	Online, Online	157	977	16.1%
2019	Santa Clara, California, USA	113	697	16.2%
2018	Baltimore, USA	100	500	20.0%
2017	Vancouver, Canada	85	553	15.4%
2016	Austin, USA	72	451	16.0%
2015	Washington DC, USA	67	407	16.5%
2014	San Diego, California, USA	67	350	19.1%
2013	Washington DC, USA	44	277	15.9%
2012	Bellevue, Washington, USA	43	222	19.4%
2011	San Francisco, California, USA	35	204	17.2%
2010	Washington DC, USA	30	202	14.9%
2009	Montreal, Canada	26	172	15.1%
2008	San Jose, California, USA	27	170	15.9%
2007	Boston, USA	23	187	12.3%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2006	Vancouver, Canada	22	179	12.3%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2005	Baltimore, USA	22	149	14.8%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2004	San Diego, California, USA	22	184	12.0%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2003	Washington DC, USA	21	128	16.4%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2002	San Francisco, California, USA	22	130	16.9%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
2001	Washington DC, USA	24	83	28.9%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
1999	Washington DC, USA	18	67	26.9%	from https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm
1998	San Antonio, USA	18	65	27.7%

Full Title: USENIX Security Symposium.
Main Discipline: Security, Privacy
Other Topics: System Security, Network Security, Wireless Security, Security Analysis, ML Security, Language Security, Hardware Security, Cryptography Appli., Social Security
Parent Organization: USENIX
Notes: No conference-level note is recorded.

Related Security conferences: CCS, IEEE S&P, NDSS.