The research data are complete.

Eduardo “Wayo” Dozal immediately emails his findings to a Carnegie Mellon colleague who could be sequestered anywhere. A chemical engineering graduate student, Dozal is used to navigating the wireless world for academic research.

“I work on projects that involve people from different engineering departments and even different colleges,” explains the future Houston-based Shell Global Solutions engineer. “It’s nice to login remotely to my office workstation from any point on campus and check on the status of things like simulation runs. Having wireless collaboration has made a huge impact on my productivity.”

It has also helped earn the university an impressive ranking.

  • #2: best campuses for wireless networking and ultra-high-speed connections to classrooms and online instruction—Princeton Review

Recent top 10 rankings among universities don’t stop there:

  • #5: best graduate business program—The Wall Street Journal

  • #7: overall technology—The London Times

  • #10: “coolest campus” for the environment—Sierra Magazine

Liam Bucci (E’08) found that rankings bring Carnegie Mellon significant cachet, especially when graduates have employment interviews. “They definitely knew about these rankings, and it made a difference when we talked salary,” says Bucci, who this spring joined WET Design (Water Entertainment Technology) in Los Angeles as an engineering liaison.

Maciej “Mac” Golonka (TPR’08), a soon-to-be Microsoft product manager in Redmond, Wash., says being enrolled in the Wall Street Journal’s #5 ranked business school has been a big help. “Recruiters want to come [to Carnegie Mellon],” he says, working on his laptop—untethered, of course—in the Posner Hall lounge. “When I mention the words ‘Carnegie Mellon,’ people take notice.”
—CHRIS A. WEBER