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ABET accreditation doesn't mean much for CS however. For example, none of these schools are ABET accredited for CS: - UC Berkeley - CMU - Stanford - Cornell
by kevindong 6y ago
ABET accreditation doesn't mean much for CS however. For example, none of these schools are ABET accredited for CS:
- UC Berkeley
- CMU
- Stanford
- Cornell
- University of Washington
- Caltech
- Princeton
https://amspub.abet.org/aps/category-search?disciplines=19°reeLevels=B&countries=US https://amspub.abet.org/aps/category-search?disciplines=19&d...
- nwsm 6y agoAdd WGU to that list and tell me which one doesn't belong.
- kevindong 6y agoI'm not arguing for/against WGU. My argument is that ABET accreditation isn't relevant to how "good" a CS program is. It does establish a minimum baseline, but lacking it just means you have to determine the program's value in other ways.
- 0xffff2 6y agoI think it is relevant though. Most of the mid-level schools I looked at were ABET accredited. Going unaccredited in CS seems to be a thing that you can only get away with if you have so much or so little name recognition that it doesn't matter.
- the_only_law 6y agoIsn’t the point of ABET mostly so that you can obtain engineering licenses. I don’t imagine most software development jobs would even bother looking up if your program was accredited because you aren’t going to need a license.
- 0xffff2 6y agoThe US government for one requires ABET accreditation for all engineering degrees regardless of licensing requirements for the job. I'm currently a government contractor who is hoping to eventually convert. It's not yet clear to me how much the lack of ABET accreditation on my UC CS degree is going to hurt me.
- D13Fd 6y agoIt means quite a lot if you want to use the CS degree for certain purposes, such as the U.S. patent bar as mentioned below. I was pointing it out not to criticize the school generally, but because it is meaningful for some use cases that sound like "I need a CS degree, quick."