's College of Engineering is ranked 12th in the country out of over 500 universities in the Cyber Power Rankings, which were created by Cyber Skyline in partnership with the National Cyber League (NCL). The rankings represent the ability of students to perform real-world cybersecurity tasks on the Cyber Skyline platform.
Students from across the College of Engineering, primarily cybersecurity and computer science majors in the School of Computing, competed in various team and individual competitions. The new ranking for is up from 20th place in the fall.
In addition to the overall ranking, the student team Sky-Shoc-2025 — headed by Charles Hill and made up of students Joe Rehhop, Daniel Halbleib, Juan Barrientos, Harsh Subnani, Carlos RSF and Alexander Pickett — placed eighth out of nearly 5,000 teams. Other WSU teams include:
- 41th place: Club Penguin - Aidan McGillivray, Sophia Hunt, Koral Richardson, Divy Patel, Hyacinthe Howell, Jack Delmar, Morgan Stewart
- 106th place: Beggs Badgers - Brynn Potter, Ashe Pate, Andrew Sauls, Jessica Methman, Bryden Young, Jason Kurtz, Andrew G.
- 156th place: Wuber Drivers - John Sanburn, John Dugan, Agustin, Andrew Lisenby, Juan Herrera, Preston Elliott, Klayton Carroll
- 174th place: Apun - Sophie Clarke, Sean Dugan, Liam Moore, Remington Derksen, Hannah Nikkel, Kyra Rolen, Reilly Waller
- 220th place: WuRu? - Adrien Banuelos, Adrian Ceballos, Ike Wells, Tyler Crabtree, Alex Caldwell, Joseph Damato, Sheikh Mohamed Ragib Ahsan
- 229th place: WULUGNUTS - Arpan Dey, Clementine Maldonado, Chelsia MathewJudin, Brett Blasi, EnmaAisha User
- 230th place: Noble - Joshua Penka, Matthew Larsen, Mason Lang, Luke Stenzel, Juan Banales, Luke Stenzel, Cece Marquez
- 244th place: CVE 316 - Benjamin Gerstenkorn, Set Htut, Spencer Russell, Hon Luu, Fabian Gracia, Ryan Buck-Carlson, Dylan Busby
- 314th place: WuGotThis - Braden McCaig, Jacob Rutt, Vicky Li, Lena Moore, Marshal Underwood, Tyler Scholl, Conner Schinkus
- 415th place: Wubynumbers - Waleed Qaki, Eduardo Rodriguez, Chukwuemeka Iweha, Zac Reichuber, Austin Hall, Dylan Insixiengmay
Individuals were also recognized, with seven students breaking the top 500 of over 8,500 individuals:
- 84th place: Aidan McGillivray
- 149th place: Joe Rehhop
- 177th place: Daniel Halbleib
- 249th place: Juan Barrientos
- 304th place: Sophie Clarke
- 448th place: Sophia Hunt
- 470th place: Arpan Dey