UCSC Engineering Not ABET Cert

honeybeedoors
Mon, 11 May 2020 23:13:18 +0000

My son declined his waitlist admission to UCSC for Computer Science but the lack ABET accreditation did not play a part in his decision. It really depends upon what type of employer you will seek once you graduate. If your prospective employer performs a lot of work for the government and that government requires* ABET accreditation, you may be at a disadvantage. I suspect the vast majority of employers do not work on jobs that require any worker (charging to the project) to have an ABET accredited degree.

Below is a link to the ABET website. Obviously the organization performing the accreditation will overstate the importance of their own work.
https://www.abet.org/accreditation/what-is-accreditation/why-abet-accreditation-matters/

*I am not in the computer science field and therefore can only speculate as to the importance of ABET accreditation in computer science. I am in the engineering/construction/architecture field and when hiring, we are more concerned with the courses taken and the quality of the university than if the university is ABET accredited.