Who are the CSC students?

Students apply to the CSC from all over the world. The selection process takes into account the technical background of the applicants, their age, areas of work and interest, expectations, geographical origin and gender.

The objective of the selection process is to maximize diversity, as a source of enrichment and cross fertilization, whilst avoiding excessive discrepancies between knowledge level and expectations, what may be a source of frustration for students.

The diversity of the attending scientists has four dimensions (figures below apply to the recent years):

Professional origin	About 90% of the students come from a research institute or laboratory, and 10% come from Industry. However, the ratio has increased over the past couple of years, essentially due to the proposed themes, progressively shifting to more Grid-related technologies.
Professional experience	About 50% with less than four years of experience, 30% with from 4 to 10 years of experience, 20% with more than 10 years of experience
Geographical origin	Students typically are of 15 to 25 different nationalities at a given school (see below).
Gender	Between 12 and 20% of the scientists attending the last editions of the school were female. Actions are engaged to increase this ratio.

Universality of the student origin

Though about 80% of the students come from European Union countries, the CERN Schools of Computing attract students from all over the world.

The following table provides, over the four past years, the list of country of origin of the researchers and engineers.

School	Number of origin countries	List of origin countries
CSC1999	19	Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Moldova, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA
CSC2000	22	Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela
CSC2001	15	Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovak Republic, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA
CSC2002	13	Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
CSC2003	25	Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia,  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Pakistan,  People's Republic of China, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,  Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands , United Kingdom, USA
Five-year Period 1999-2003	39	Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,  Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, The Netherlands , United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela

Gender

Applications from women are always regarded very favourably. The table below gives of The percentage of female having attended the school over the past years.

School	% of female students
CSC1999	12
CSC2000	13
CSC2001	10
CSC2002	20
CSC2002	17