HackMIT 2026 vs 2025

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Rankings

Judging placements from Plume.Livewaiting for judging · synced 42d ago

2026

Prize winners

#1hackmit2026.comevery track · 100th percentile

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2025

Beginner · top 10 of 62

  1. #1MoodRing Markets
  2. #2Hyperfeed
  3. #3DeskPet
  4. #4Luminara
  5. #5DashOS
  6. #6Study Buddy
  7. #7LootMap
  8. #8Beat Rush
  9. #9Minuet
  10. #10SmartRehab: RL-Powered Assistive Technology

Only the top 10 per track are shown.

250 of 319 projects ranked so far.

At a glance

Projects

3012026

3192025

Hackers

8832026

9562025

Schools

912026

1852025

Avg team size

2.92026

3.02025

With code link

94%2026

94%2025

With demo video

55%2026

50%2025

Hackers by school

Share of each group's hackers, as listed on their project pages.

2026 · 883 hackers, 91 schools

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

2025 · 956 hackers, 185 schools

  1. MIT24726%
  2. Stanford University333.5%
  3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor293.0%
  4. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)262.7%
  5. University of Waterloo262.7%
  6. Georgia Institute of Technology242.5%
  7. University of Massachusetts, Amherst202.1%
  8. University of Maryland, College Park192.0%
  9. Arizona State University181.9%
  10. Northeastern University181.9%
175 more schools
  1. Harvard University161.7%
  2. Princeton University161.7%
  3. Cornell University151.6%
  4. Carnegie Mellon University131.4%
  5. Columbia University131.4%
  6. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)131.4%
  7. University of Pennsylvania131.4%
  8. Duke University121.3%
  9. Wellesley College121.3%
  10. Boston University111.2%
  11. University of Texas at Austin111.2%
  12. Brown University101.0%
  13. University of Southern California101.0%
  14. University of Wisconsin-Madison101.0%
  15. Tufts University90.9%
  16. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)90.9%
  17. New Jersey Institute of Technology80.8%
  18. Rutgers University – New Brunswick70.7%
  19. University of Southern Mississippi70.7%
  20. University of Toronto70.7%
  21. Yale University70.7%
  22. New York University (NYU)60.6%
  23. Stony Brook University60.6%
  24. Texas A&M University60.6%
  25. University of British Columbia60.6%
  26. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign60.6%
  27. McGill University50.5%
  28. Ohio State University50.5%
  29. Pennsylvania State University50.5%
  30. Purdue University50.5%
  31. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya50.5%
  32. Caldwell University40.4%
  33. Dartmouth College40.4%
  34. Imperial College London40.4%
  35. McMaster University40.4%
  36. San Jose State University40.4%
  37. Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)40.4%
  38. Boston College30.3%
  39. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)30.3%
  40. Clemson University30.3%
  41. De Anza College30.3%
  42. Georgia State University30.3%
  43. Harvey Mudd College30.3%
  44. Michigan State University30.3%
  45. National University of Singapore (NUS)30.3%
  46. Northwestern University30.3%
  47. Simmons University30.3%
  48. University of Florida30.3%
  49. University of Texas at Arlington30.3%
  50. University of Virginia30.3%
  51. Washington University in St. Louis30.3%
  52. Worcester Polytechnic Institute30.3%
  53. Amherst College20.2%
  54. Babson College20.2%
  55. Bryn Mawr College20.2%
  56. California State University Long Beach20.2%
  57. Colby College20.2%
  58. CUNY Hunter College20.2%
  59. EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne20.2%
  60. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)20.2%
  61. Johns Hopkins University20.2%
  62. University of Arizona20.2%
  63. University of California, Irvine20.2%
  64. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill20.2%
  65. University of Pittsburgh20.2%
  66. University of South Florida20.2%
  67. University of Texas at Dallas20.2%
  68. University of Washington20.2%
  69. Vanderbilt University20.2%
  70. Wilfrid Laurier University20.2%
  71. York University20.2%
  72. Aalto University10.1%
  73. Arkansas State University10.1%
  74. Bard College10.1%
  75. Berea College10.1%
  76. Bilkent University10.1%
  77. Binghamton University10.1%
  78. Birla Institute of Technology And Science - Pilani10.1%
  79. Bowdoin College10.1%
  80. Bowling Green State University10.1%
  81. Brandeis University10.1%
  82. Bunker Hill Commnunity College10.1%
  83. Cascadia College10.1%
  84. Centennial College10.1%
  85. Claremont McKenna College10.1%
  86. Clark University10.1%
  87. Colorado College10.1%
  88. Colorado School of Mines10.1%
  89. Community College of Philadelphia10.1%
  90. Connecticut College10.1%
  91. CUNY Brooklyn College10.1%
  92. Diablo Valley Collage10.1%
  93. Drexel University10.1%
  94. Emory University10.1%
  95. ETH Zurich & MIT10.1%
  96. ETH Zürich, Princeton University10.1%
  97. Fordham University10.1%
  98. George Mason University10.1%
  99. Grambling State University10.1%
  100. Grinnell College10.1%
  101. Gwinnett Technical College10.1%
  102. Haverford College10.1%
  103. Huston Tillotson University10.1%
  104. IIT Bombay10.1%
  105. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)10.1%
  106. INSTUTITO POLITECNICO DE TOMAR10.1%
  107. Laguardia Community College10.1%
  108. Las Positas10.1%
  109. Leiden University10.1%
  110. Lewis & Clark College10.1%
  111. Loyola University New Orleans10.1%
  112. Marist University10.1%
  113. Mcneese State University10.1%
  114. MFF CUNI10.1%
  115. Mississippi State University10.1%
  116. Missouri University of Science and Technology10.1%
  117. Montclair State University10.1%
  118. Mount Holyoke College10.1%
  119. Newton School of Technology , Rishihood University10.1%
  120. North Carolina State University10.1%
  121. Oregon State University10.1%
  122. Pacific Lutheran University10.1%
  123. Parsons School of Design10.1%
  124. Penn Engineering (CS + AI) & Wharton (Finance)10.1%
  125. Politecnico di Milano10.1%
  126. Polytechnique Montréal10.1%
  127. Portland State University10.1%
  128. Queen's University, Ontario10.1%
  129. Rhodes College10.1%
  130. Rice University10.1%
  131. Rochester Institute of Technology10.1%
  132. Rollins College10.1%
  133. rowan university10.1%
  134. Santa Monica College10.1%
  135. Sheridan College10.1%
  136. Sofia University10.1%
  137. Sungkyunkwan University10.1%
  138. Swarthmore College10.1%
  139. Talladega College10.1%
  140. Technical University of Munich10.1%
  141. Temple University10.1%
  142. Texas Christian University10.1%
  143. Texas State University10.1%
  144. The George Washington University10.1%
  145. Truman State University10.1%
  146. Union College, Schenectady, NY10.1%
  147. Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP)10.1%
  148. Universidad Tecnologica de Durango10.1%
  149. University at Buffalo10.1%
  150. University of California, Davis10.1%
  151. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)10.1%
  152. University of California, Santa Cruz10.1%
  153. University of Chicago10.1%
  154. University of Cincinnati10.1%
  155. University of Colorado Boulder10.1%
  156. University of Connecticut10.1%
  157. University of Hawaii at Manoa10.1%
  158. University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)10.1%
  159. University of Massachusetts Lowell10.1%
  160. University of Mississippi10.1%
  161. University of North Carolina at Charlotte10.1%
  162. University of North Texas10.1%
  163. University of Oklahoma10.1%
  164. University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus10.1%
  165. University of San Francisco10.1%
  166. University of Southampton10.1%
  167. University of St Andrews10.1%
  168. University of St. Thomas10.1%
  169. University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire10.1%
  170. Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)10.1%
  171. Wayne State University10.1%
  172. Weber State University10.1%
  173. Wesleyan University10.1%
  174. Whitman College10.1%
  175. Williams College10.1%
  1. Other / not listed10.1%

Team size

2026: avg 2.9 · 2025: avg 3.0

  • 2026
  • 2025
14%
14%
21%
17%
23%
23%
42%
45%
1
2
3
4
5
6+

Tracks

Projects per judging track.

  • 2026
  • 2025
  1. General21%15%
  2. Education21%24%
  3. Healthcare19%12%
  4. Entertainment13%16%
  5. Sustainability12%12%
  6. Beginner8.6%19%

Sponsor challenges

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

2026 · 23 challenges

  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%
15 more challenges
  1. The Token Company: LLM Cost Saving Challenge5619%
  2. Arduino: Touch Grass: Build Something That Understands the Real World5217%
  3. SpaceXAI: Make it Legendary5017%
  4. Elastic: Find the Signal4816%
  5. ASUS: ASUS / Zenni Claw Challenge3010.0%
  6. ElevenLabs Challenge299.6%
  7. Warp: Best Developer Tool279.0%
  8. Visa: Reimagine Shopping206.6%
  9. Espressif: Best Use of Espressif Hardware & Solutions (In AIoT)196.3%
  10. Hackster: Create What's Next196.3%
  11. Maximor AI: Office of the CFO Agent Challenge196.3%
  12. Regeneron: Make Clinical Trials and Biostatistics Better!196.3%
  13. Dimensional: Best Use of Dimensional186.0%
  14. Arrowstreet Capital: Best Textual Analysis Hack144.7%
  15. Givecampus: Fundraising / Constituent Intelligence Challenge82.7%

2025 · 22 challenges

  1. Anthropic: Best Use Of Claude14445%
  2. Windsurf Challenge9831%
  3. Rox Challenge6721%
  4. YC Challenge: Challenge an Iconic YC Company with AI5818%
  5. Cerebras: Best Use of the Cerebras API5216%
  6. Wispr: Yap ur App5116%
  7. Suno: Best Musical Hack4715%
  8. Mentra Challenge3912%
14 more challenges
  1. Infosys: Carbon-Conscious Intelligence – Building Smarter AI with a Smaller Footprint3611%
  2. Arrowstreet: Best Graph Visualization Hack3411%
  3. Fetch.ai: Bridge Intent and Action: Build AI Agents That Think, Plan, and Deliver3411%
  4. Interaction: Best MCP Automation319.7%
  5. EigenCloud Challenge #1: Build a Domain-Specific AI Judge278.5%
  6. Warp Dev: Best Developer Tool268.2%
  7. Voloridge Challenge237.2%
  8. Extraordinary: Deep Research Challenge196.0%
  9. Modal Challenge196.0%
  10. Warp: Best Financial Visualization Agent134.1%
  11. Tandemn Challenge123.8%
  12. Knot: Build a product using Knot's TransactionLink product113.4%
  13. Lica Challenge103.1%
  14. EigenCloud Challenge #2 - Build an Autonomous AI Agent or Private Verifiable App82.5%

Challenges entered per project

  • 2026
  • 2025
13%
19%
13%
19%
9.6%
17%
14%
15%
51%
30%
0
1
2
3
4+

Tech stack mentions

Share of projects whose write-up mentions each technology — 287 of 301 2026 projects have one; 305 of 319 2025 projects have one.

  • 2026
  • 2025
  1. JavaScript32%36%
  2. Python30%26%
  3. OpenAI / GPT28%12%
  4. React27%30%
  5. TypeScript25%20%
  6. FastAPI20%13%
  7. Next.js16%17%
  8. Claude / Anthropic16%36%
  9. Arduino12%1.0%
  10. Node.js10%11%
  11. SQLite9.4%6.9%
  12. Tailwind8.0%17%
  13. Supabase7.0%10%
  14. PostgreSQL5.6%5.6%
  15. WebSockets5.6%4.9%
43 more technologies
  1. MongoDB5.6%3.0%
  2. Three.js5.6%1.0%
  3. ElevenLabs5.6%0.7%
  4. ESP325.6%0.7%
  5. Vercel5.2%5.2%
  6. MCP4.2%4.9%
  7. Computer vision4.2%3.9%
  8. Express3.8%7.5%
  9. OpenCV3.5%3.3%
  10. Gemini3.5%3.0%
  11. Whisper3.1%2.6%
  12. Docker3.1%2.0%
  13. Swift3.1%1.0%
  14. Chrome extension2.8%3.9%
  15. Flask2.4%9.8%
  16. Raspberry Pi2.1%1.3%
  17. Llama2.1%1.0%
  18. PyTorch1.7%0.3%
  19. Rust1.4%0.3%
  20. Modal1.0%4.6%
  21. React Native1.0%4.3%
  22. AWS1.0%2.0%
  23. Google Cloud1.0%1.3%
  24. Django1.0%0.7%
  25. YOLO1.0%0.7%
  26. Azure1.0%0.3%
  27. Unity1.0%0.3%
  28. Kotlin1.0%0%
  29. Firebase0.7%3.6%
  30. Figma0.7%3.3%
  31. Twilio0.7%1.0%
  32. Flutter0.7%0.7%
  33. Cloudflare0.7%0.3%
  34. Stripe0.7%0.3%
  35. C / C++0.7%0%
  36. RAG0.3%3.6%
  37. LangChain0.3%3.3%
  38. Redis0.3%2.0%
  39. Hugging Face0.3%1.3%
  40. TensorFlow0.3%1.3%
  41. Electron0.3%0.3%
  42. Convex0.3%0%
  43. Solidity0%0.3%