HackMIT 2026

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Rankings

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Prize winners

#1hackmit2026.comevery track · 100th percentile

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At a glance

Projects

301

Hackers

883

Schools

91

Avg team size

2.9

With code link

94%

With demo video

55%

Hackers by school

883 hackers from 91 schools, as listed on their project pages.

  1. MIT28032%
  2. Georgia Institute of Technology354.0%
  3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)343.9%
  4. University of Waterloo343.9%
  5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign202.3%
  6. Columbia University151.7%
  7. Purdue University151.7%
  8. Stanford University151.7%
  9. Cornell University141.6%
  10. Harvard University141.6%
  11. University of Massachusetts, Amherst141.6%
  12. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor141.6%
  13. University of Toronto141.6%
  14. University of Texas at Austin131.5%
  15. Carnegie Mellon University121.4%
76 more schools
  1. University of British Columbia111.2%
  2. Imperial College London101.1%
  3. New York University (NYU)91.0%
  4. Princeton University91.0%
  5. Duke University80.9%
  6. Northeastern University80.9%
  7. University of Maryland, College Park80.9%
  8. Texas A&M University70.8%
  9. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)70.8%
  10. University of Washington70.8%
  11. Rutgers University – New Brunswick60.7%
  12. University of Pennsylvania60.7%
  13. Yale University60.7%
  14. Brown University50.6%
  15. University of Florida50.6%
  16. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill50.6%
  17. Arizona State University40.5%
  18. McGill University40.5%
  19. National University of Singapore (NUS)40.5%
  20. Stony Brook University40.5%
  21. University of California, Irvine40.5%
  22. University of Wisconsin-Madison40.5%
  23. Western University40.5%
  24. Boston University30.3%
  25. King's College London (KCL)30.3%
  26. North Carolina State University30.3%
  27. Politecnico di Milano30.3%
  28. Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)30.3%
  29. University College Dublin30.3%
  30. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)30.3%
  31. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)30.3%
  32. University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)30.3%
  33. Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)30.3%
  34. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)20.2%
  35. Dartmouth College20.2%
  36. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)20.2%
  37. Johns Hopkins University20.2%
  38. Laval University20.2%
  39. Taylor's University (Malaysia)20.2%
  40. The University of New South Wales20.2%
  41. University of Virginia20.2%
  42. Vanderbilt University20.2%
  43. Bilkent University10.1%
  44. City St George’s, University of London10.1%
  45. Delft University of Technology10.1%
  46. Emory University10.1%
  47. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)10.1%
  48. Indiana University Bloomington10.1%
  49. KTH Royal Institute of Technology10.1%
  50. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)10.1%
  51. McMaster University10.1%
  52. Northwestern University10.1%
  53. Pennsylvania State University10.1%
  54. Queen's University, Ontario10.1%
  55. Rice University10.1%
  56. Technical University of Munich10.1%
  57. The University of Manchester10.1%
  58. The University of Sheffield10.1%
  59. Tsinghua University10.1%
  60. Tufts University10.1%
  61. UCL (University College London)10.1%
  62. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid10.1%
  63. Universidad de Buenos Aires10.1%
  64. University of Alberta10.1%
  65. University of California, Davis10.1%
  66. University of California, Santa Cruz10.1%
  67. University of Cambridge10.1%
  68. University of Glasgow10.1%
  69. University of Leeds10.1%
  70. University of Minnesota (System)10.1%
  71. University of Ottawa10.1%
  72. University of Oxford10.1%
  73. University of Victoria10.1%
  74. Warsaw University of Technology10.1%
  75. Washington University in St. Louis10.1%
  76. York University10.1%
  1. Other / not listed11313%

Team size

Average 2.9 hackers per project.

14%
21%
23%
42%
1
2
3
4
5
6+

Tracks

Projects per judging track.

  1. General6321%
  2. Education6221%
  3. Healthcare5819%
  4. Entertainment3913%
  5. Sustainability3612%
  6. Beginner268.6%

Sponsor challenges

Which sponsor challenges projects entered, as a share of projects.

  1. Long Lake: Convince a Non-Believer12843%
  2. OpenAI: The Fifth Teammate11739%
  3. Ramp: Save Time. Save Money.10736%
  4. Meta: Bringing People Closer Together with AI10635%
  5. Cognition: Best Use of Devin8930%
  6. Deepgram: Build Something Worth Talking To6622%
  7. Dropbox: Turn Digital Chaos Into Something Useful6120%
  8. Voloridge: Signal in the Noise6120%
  9. The Token Company: LLM Cost Saving Challenge5619%
  10. Arduino: Touch Grass: Build Something That Understands the Real World5217%
  11. SpaceXAI: Make it Legendary5017%
  12. Elastic: Find the Signal4816%
11 more challenges
  1. ASUS: ASUS / Zenni Claw Challenge3010.0%
  2. ElevenLabs Challenge299.6%
  3. Warp: Best Developer Tool279.0%
  4. Visa: Reimagine Shopping206.6%
  5. Espressif: Best Use of Espressif Hardware & Solutions (In AIoT)196.3%
  6. Hackster: Create What's Next196.3%
  7. Maximor AI: Office of the CFO Agent Challenge196.3%
  8. Regeneron: Make Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Better!196.3%
  9. Dimensional: Best Use of Dimensional186.0%
  10. Arrowstreet Capital: Best Textual Analysis Hack144.7%
  11. Givecampus: Fundraising / Constituent Intelligence Challenge82.7%

Challenges entered per project

13%
13%
9.6%
14%
51%
0
1
2
3
4+

Tech stack mentions

Share of projects whose write-up mentions each technology — 287 of 301 2026 projects have one.

  1. JavaScript9232%
  2. Python8630%
  3. OpenAI / GPT8028%
  4. React7827%
  5. TypeScript7125%
  6. FastAPI5820%
  7. Next.js4716%
  8. Claude / Anthropic4616%
  9. Arduino3512%
  10. Node.js2910%
  11. SQLite279.4%
  12. Tailwind238.0%
  13. Supabase207.0%
  14. ElevenLabs165.6%
  15. ESP32165.6%
42 more technologies
  1. MongoDB165.6%
  2. PostgreSQL165.6%
  3. Three.js165.6%
  4. WebSockets165.6%
  5. Vercel155.2%
  6. Computer vision124.2%
  7. MCP124.2%
  8. Express113.8%
  9. Gemini103.5%
  10. OpenCV103.5%
  11. Docker93.1%
  12. Swift93.1%
  13. Whisper93.1%
  14. Chrome extension82.8%
  15. Flask72.4%
  16. Llama62.1%
  17. Raspberry Pi62.1%
  18. PyTorch51.7%
  19. Rust41.4%
  20. AWS31.0%
  21. Azure31.0%
  22. Django31.0%
  23. Google Cloud31.0%
  24. Kotlin31.0%
  25. Modal31.0%
  26. React Native31.0%
  27. Unity31.0%
  28. YOLO31.0%
  29. C / C++20.7%
  30. Cloudflare20.7%
  31. Figma20.7%
  32. Firebase20.7%
  33. Flutter20.7%
  34. Stripe20.7%
  35. Twilio20.7%
  36. Convex10.3%
  37. Electron10.3%
  38. Hugging Face10.3%
  39. LangChain10.3%
  40. RAG10.3%
  41. Redis10.3%
  42. TensorFlow10.3%