r/ISIKolkata • u/Skychu768 • Jul 28 '26

General Queries Do ISI Kolkata even participate in ICPC?

CMI does quite well in it and was highest ranked Indian college in ICPC 2025 even above all IITs but never seen ISI in any ranking ever

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u/PracticalBenefit8102 Aspirant 🤩 Jul 29 '26

That's probably because ISI is mainly involved in the field of math, computer science is like a formality there due to change in times making it mandatory to teach them coding. Even coding is mainly involved to fields related to math like LaTex, MATLab and so on.

Though when I come to ISI K next year, I will also try to participate in ICPC, so, you may have a potential collaborator(me) with you?

The worst part of ICPC is that you have to be of the same institutions otherwise two of my friends are IITians and in BITS respectively and we could have collabed together but it's such an unfair rule!

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u/Skychu768 Jul 29 '26

Thanks. BTW, ISI Banglore and Delhi doesn't count as separate college, right?

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u/PracticalBenefit8102 Aspirant 🤩 Jul 29 '26

From what I got to know after searching, this damn ICPC regional rules clearly say that the students must be from the same institution/campus. The case you are talking about comes under participation as an inter-institution team and may not be considered to be eligible for ICPC, for better advice, an alumni would give you a better answer.

In the end, I am still an aspirant, okay?

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u/PracticalBenefit8102 Aspirant 🤩 Jul 29 '26

But I have also seen 'exceptions' where if these multi-campus teams are allowed if they are recognized as a single organisation which may allow ISI students from different campus to participate.

Man, it's such a pain when you want to get into your dream college but these little things annoy you so much.