About Us

CSESoc is the official representative body of computing students at UNSW. We are one of the largest and most active societies at UNSW, and the largest computing society in the southern hemisphere. CSESoc comprises ~9,500 UNSW students spanning across degrees in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics and Computer Engineering. We are here to fulfil the social, personal and professional needs of CSE students, and promote computing through a variety of forms.

We are a society for the students, by the students. Here’s an overview of what we do;

• Run weekly social and educational events, including trivia, movie and boardgames nights; LAN parties; workshops; coding competitions; tech talks, and our famous free weekly BBQ.
• Create original media content, including podcasts, articles, YouTube videos, and livestreams
• Run a highly successful First Year Camp and Peer Mentoring program, offering new CSE students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) a chance to meet and mingle with other newcomers
• Engage students with industry sponsors and representatives to develop their professional capacity and curiosity
• Develop our own open-source projects for students to get learn new skills and develop tools for our community
• Facilitate an online community of ~3k Discord users, ~5k Facebook followers, ~600 YouTube subs, and ~500 Instagram followers

Most of all, we're here to help have a great time at UNSW!

2021 Statistics

🥳 100+ events (more on the way!) 🥳
📸 40+ media articles, podcast, videos, streams 📸
💸 32 sponsors 💸
💬 400 000 discord messages 💬
✨ 190 volunteers ✨
📼 40 000 Youtube views 📼
📼 600+ Youtube Subs 📼
🚸 500+ high school students reached 🚸
🧥374 hoodies 🧥
😷 250 face masks 😷

Diversity Statistics

In the 2021 CSESoc team,
53.8% of respondents identified as male
43% of respondents identified as female
2.2% of respondents declined to answer

80.7% of respondents are between 18-20 years old
13.2% of respondents are 21 years of age or greater

97% of respondents are full time students
3% of respondents are part time students

98.4% of respondents are undergraduate students
1.6% of respondents are postgraduate students

91.1% of respondents are domestic students
8.9% of respondents are international students

19 respondents identified as South Asian
77 respondents identified as East and South-East Asian
90 respondents identified as Australian/New Zealander
5 respondents identified as Middle Eastern
2 respondents identified as African
10 respondents identified as European