Some government jobs do want the accreditation--you need it to become a patent agent, for example--though others don't. I think it might be related to whether i

Some government jobs do want the accreditation--you need it to become a patent agent, for example--though others don't. I think it might be related to whether it's officially an "engineering" or "science" job. It's a little aggravating though, since many good programs (e.g., Stanford) don't bother with the ABET stuff for computer science.