When Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley broke ground, dot-coms were booming. But when the first class in 2002 was welcomed, the bubble had burst. Nevertheless, as the tech industry struggled to regain its footing, CMSV students thrived. During the following 10 years, more than 700 degrees were earned in fields that encompass computer science and entrepreneurship, as well as a desire to solve problems. Not only did CMSV survive the dot-com bubble, it was recently ranked the best branch or satellite campus by thebestcolleges.org.
—Elizabeth Shestak (DC’03)
