National University Computer Science

[sanantone]

for fields outside of the "licensed professional engineer" field, ABET seems even less noteworthy than AACSB/ACBSP/IACBE, which is also not very noteworthy outside of academia. Some business schools might want programmatic accreditation for the very few of us who want to be professors, but the CS/IT/related degrees certainly don't care about that, even within academia if your goal is teaching.

I've noticed that elite schools will earn all kinds of programmatic accreditations even when they're not needed. So, the fact that some of the best CS programs don't care to earn ABET tells us how useless it is. 

CEPH accreditation isn't required outside of USPHS, but just about every good public health program has it. It's an interesting flip because a lot of the low-ranked and unranked schools don't have CEPH. With ABET, I noticed that a lot of low-ranked and unranked schools have gotten it for their CS and IT programs. 

My state's PE license can be earned by software and computer engineers, but if you don't have an ABET-accredited degree in software, computer, or any other engineering field, you'll need eight years of work experience just like the applicants without ABET-accredited degrees.

Another example is safety and environmental engineering. They can earn a PE license, but if their ABET-accredited safety degree does not have engineering in the title, it's the same as earning a non-accredited degree and twice as much work experience will be required.

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ABET has different divisions, and my state's engineering board only accepts EAC.

EAC - engineering
CAC - computer science
ETAC - engineering technology
ANSAC - environmental and applied science