UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society (CPMSoc)

What UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society (CPMSoc) does

UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society (CPMSoc) is a not-for-profit student society affiliated with Arc @ UNSW Limited, operating at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It serves UNSW students interested in problem solving through educational programs in competitive programming and competitive mathematics at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, with membership open to all UNSW students regardless of prior experience.

Name

UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society (CPMSoc)

Legal name

UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society

Website

https://unswcpmsoc.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UNSW Competitive Programming and Mathematics Society (CPMSoc) is a not-for-profit student society at the University of New South Wales delivering workshops, competitions, and beginner courses in competitive programming and mathematics for UNSW students.

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Headquarters

HQ city

City Of Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

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Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership and Club Operations: CPMSoc operates as a not-for-profit affiliated club with Arc @ UNSW. The society runs competitions and workshops, likely funded through membership dues and/or university/Arc funding. The constitution states assets and income shall be applied solely in furtherance of its objects and no portion distributed to members except as bona fide compensation for services rendered.

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Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

CPMSoc is a UNSW student society that runs workshops, beginner courses (CP101 and CM101), and competitions in competitive programming and competitive mathematics for university students. Programs cover problem solving, algorithms, data structures, mathematical proofs, graph theory, combinatorics, number theory, and ICPC/Simon Marais preparation. All offerings are delivered at no cost to UNSW students and supported by an active Discord-based community.

Product overview

UNSW CPMSoc is a student society offering educational products and programs in competitive programming and competitive mathematics. The core offerings include CP101 (competitive programming introductory course), CM101 (competitive mathematics introductory course), regular workshops in both disciplines, and various competitions. These products work together to foster a community of problem-solvers, with beginner courses serving as entry points, workshops providing ongoing skill development, and competitions offering practical application of learned concepts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CP101

Quantifiable outcome

• CPMSoc runs regular workshops and competitions throughout the academic year for both programming and mathematics tracks

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Citadel SecuritiesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Sponsored/workshop supported - Citadel Securities provided sponsorship for the Term 1 Week 9 2024 Disjoint Set Unions workshop.
• MathSocminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership for joint competitions and events. CPMSoc and MathSoc have co-hosted Integration Bee events (2026 O Week Integration Bee, 2023 Term 2 Integration Bee) combining programming and mathematics themes.
• CSESoccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing collaboration on programming contests. Rookie Code Rumble events have been jointly organized (2025, 2024, 2023 editions). Also collaborated on Inter-University Coding Competitions.
• SecSocminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on Rookie Code Rumble 2024 (CSESoc x SecSoc x CPMSoc) for joint programming competition.
• RocketryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2025 Rocket Code Rumble, combining programming contest with rocketry theme.
• BINFSocminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on 2024 Term 2 workshop on Applying Graph Theory to Bioinformatics.
• OptiverminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOptiver sponsors the Australian Maths Olympiad Program, mentioned as an employer seeking competitive mathematics skills. The society references this connection when discussing career benefits of competitive mathematics.
• Arc @ UNSWcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPMSoc is officially affiliated with Arc @ UNSW Limited. Arc provides club management, funding support, and governance oversight. The society must comply with Arc Clubs Policy and is listed on SpArc member portal.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Art of Problem Solving: Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is a direct peer that provides structured math and competitive programming training, contests, and a community for students aspiring to math/CS competitions. Like CPMSoc, AoPS focuses on building problem-solving skills for competitions such as MATHCOUNTS, AMC, and olympiads, making it the most comparable offering in terms of mission and audience.
• UNSW Computing Society (CSESoc): CSESoc is UNSW's main computer science student society and CPMSoc's most frequent collaborator (joint Rookie Code Rumble events 2023-2025). Both societies serve overlapping UNSW computing student audiences with technical events and workshops, making them direct peers within the same campus ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Codeforces: Codeforces is the dominant global platform for competitive programming contests, problem archives, and rating systems. CPMSoc uses similar contest formats (ICPC-style) and problem difficulty ladders, making Codeforces the primary global incumbent whose content and infrastructure compete with CPMSoc's workshop and competition programming.
• Topcoder: Topcoder is an established competitive programming and algorithmic problem-solving platform running single-round matches, marathons, and sponsored competitions. It shares CPMSoc's focus on algorithmic contests and talent identification for technical hiring, including direct corporate sponsorship models similar to CPMSoc's Citadel/Optiver relationships.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): ACM is the parent organization of ICPC, the competition CPMSoc explicitly prepares students for. ACM student chapters operate at universities worldwide with similar structures to CPMSoc, providing computing community, contests, and educational resources at scale.
• HackerRank: HackerRank is a tech hiring and competitive programming platform used by CPMSoc for virtual contest hosting. It overlaps with CPMSoc's mission of building coding skills and preparing students for technical interviews, while operating at vastly larger scale.
• LeetCode: LeetCode is the leading technical interview preparation platform with a large problem archive and contest system. CPMSoc explicitly cites technical interview preparation (COMP4128, coding interviews) as a member pain point, putting it in direct competition with LeetCode's self-serve offering.

Regional players

• AtCoder: AtCoder is a Japan-based competitive programming platform hosting regular contests with global participation. It serves the same competitive programming training and contest audience as CPMSoc, but operates regionally with a Japanese-language emphasis and is a primary resource CPMSoc students would use alongside society activities.
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI): AMSI runs the Australian Maths Olympiad Program and other competitive mathematics initiatives that CPMSoc members participate in. It operates at the regional/national level and overlaps with CPMSoc's competitive mathematics mission and audience, including the Optiver sponsorship reference.

Emerging players

• Brilliant: Brilliant is an interactive learning platform for math, science, and computer science with problem-solving courses that mirror CPMSoc's CP101/CM101-style approach. It targets the same intellectually curious student audience and provides self-paced problem-solving training that competes for the same engagement time.

Market position

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Competitive moat4 records

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Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CPMSoc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cpmsoc
• Instagraminstagram.com/cpmsoc_unsw

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