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<p>I’ve never found licensure or ABET accreditation to be particularly important for EE’s. Most companies don’t care. Only a tiny minority of EE’s ever bother to get licensed. </p>
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<p>I highly doubt that most engineering companies would even notice the difference. What really matters is that you have sufficient work experience, obtained through internships or coops, and that you can display a solid grasp of the material in your interview, rather than the specific name of your degree. It is for this reason that many companies will hire for engineering positions those people don’t even have engineering degrees at all. For example, I know one girl who was hired by Intel as a wafer fab engineer whose degree was in chemistry. Intel didn’t seem to care that she wasn’t really an ‘engineer’. In fact, she did well enough to be quickly promoted to the senior engineering ranks despite not even having an engineering degree. </p>
<p>Besides, Rice is a highly ranked engineering school. Whatever ‘deficiencies’ the BA degree in EE might have, it’s still going to be better than the BSEE degree from most other engineering programs, yet those people get hired for engineering jobs.</p>