Are all ABET accredited programs created equal? How to evaluate/choose a program

stencils
Mon, 30 May 2022 17:28:42 +0000

1dadinNC:

Some of us have kids that are mere mortals. Lol.

Ha! Fair enough and it sound more elitist than I meant!

I’m actually quite against the level of Toxic Elitism we see here on CC – that’s not my phrase by the way; it’s stolen from @aquapt (who I actually know in real life) but it fits so well that I love using it! My point is that as long as a program is good enough – and I believe most ABET-accredited programs are – that kids can work hard, do well, and make their own opportunities wherever they go to school. Not everybody wants to work at a start-up (I’ve done it and the hours are grueling and only a small number make it big), and not everybody wants to work at a Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple etc (the FAANG gang), but there’s a lot of great paying engineering jobs with lots of growth opportunity everywhere. NJIT or Rutgers will get you a great job too.