Home Is Where The Work Is: "SMART PACKAGE DESIGN
CMU's elite grads have had little trouble finding jobs. Vermonter Ben Madore, who graduates in August with a master's degree in information technology, landed a plum assignment with tech consultancy Accenture Ltd. (ACN ) in San Francisco. He's one of 3,000 programmers the company hired in the U.S. in the past nine months. He credits his good fortune partly to the fact that CMU taught him to design software packages, rather than just routine programming. 'I don't want to be the guy who's just hacking out code,' he says."

Good news for CMU grads!!! hurray! my jillions of dollars paid in tutiion fees are now worth it!