62% of ABTO Software employees graduated from Lviv National Ivan Franko University – the Ukrainian oldest continuously operating university and one of the most powerful centers of education, science and culture in Ukraine.
In the 2011 Association for computing machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest, Donetsk National University (Donetsk, Ukraine) ranked 8th in the world and Lviv National University (officially Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) ranked 13th. For comparison: Carnegie Mellon ranted 13th, MIT ranked in 27th place.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), a multinational, team-based, programming competition, sponsored by IBM was held in Florida, USA, in May 2011 under the auspices of ACM (headquarters at Baylor University in Waco, Texas). The aim of the contest is to provide college students a possibility to compete with students from other universities worldwide in order to advance their programming problem solving skills and learn to work as a team.