Institutions like MIT (where Fredkin was) don't really care that much about accreditation. Is anyone going to doubt your degree (or deny you a PE) if MIT decid

Institutions like MIT (where Fredkin was) don't really care that much about accreditation. Is anyone going to doubt your degree (or deny you a PE) if MIT decided to swap out a class that the accreditation society thought should be a requirement? I was on the board of a private (primary) school and accreditation was make or break for it. But one of the values of the high reputation institutions is that they can afford to take chances: having faculty with "out there" opinions, some unorthodox faculty choices etc. Honestly they should be taking more chances.