<p>I juuuuust overheard a conversation between two professors who were complaining about how they had to teach daily courses this Quarter at both UW Bothell and UW Seattle. One of them was saying they were going to make a big ado about it and try to ensure that they would get back their M&W, Tu&Th splits so that they wouldn’t have a two-way commute.</p>
<p>So funny, because people try to act like they’re different colleges…</p>
<p>Some teachers may teach on both campuses, but the majority don’t. Similarly, the research done on the Seattle campus is definitely a lot different than Bothell or Tacoma. The career fair / job opportunities are also pretty different from campus to campus.</p>
<p>So yeah … I would say they are different universities, even with a bit of overlap.</p>
<p>The career fair stuff is for everyone. I know some friends who are from Tacoma who took themselves down to a Tacoma job fair.</p>
<p>Of course the research is different, because they’re designed for different things. Most of the degrees at UW campuses are not the same, so the program ratings would be different, also many of the degrees at UWB and UWT are weird IAS degrees that don’t look as good. But for the degrees that are precisely the same, they would be the same…</p>
<p>UW would never split the campuses and they will always be the same Universities. If they did it would be a horrible idea.</p>
<p>Huh, I guess the career fairs depend. The ones I’ve been to, the guys in charge have strictly said that it was for specific departments at UW Seattle only. They kicked out some UW Bothell students from the building since the people boothing at the career fair were there specifically for people from the UW Seattle program. </p>
<p>Anyway, good to know that some of the other career fairs are open to all! :)</p>
<p>Oh yeah, they’re like different colleges at the same University. So like most of the people at UW Bothell are in the “College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.”</p>
<p>The UW Tacoma business school is the Milgard School of Business, while the UWB Business school is unnamed. But each of the individual Business schools have AACSB secondary accreditation, although only Foster has the Accounting accreditation.</p>
<p>I mean, for my Business Minor the only place I can get it is at UWB.</p>
<p>@XaviFM:
“although only Foster has the Accounting accreditation.”</p>
<p>May I know, which accreditation are you talking about? I’m very interested in it since I’m going to major in Accounting and UWB is my second choice.</p>
<p>My coworker goes to UWB and I go to UW Seattle, and he keeps saying like “oh once you graduate it’s like you went to the same school cuz the name on your degree will just be University of Washington (w/o the specific location)” so I was wondering… it doesn’t really matter since I already go to UW Seattle, but will it be an advantage (job hunting wise) for me to be going to the Seattle campus when in the end even Bothell and Tacoma people will be graduating from the same “University of Washington”? Hope that makes sense!</p>
<p>@schan53, there is one little detail. On the diploma it will say where the diploma was issued - in the case of coworker it will say “Bothell”. So, a local employer who is familiar with UW will know where one went to. I doubt that employers in other states will care.</p>
<p>@schan53: seatac is right. The diploma doesn’t include anything other than “Bachelor of Fine Arts” “Bachelor of Arts” Bachelors of Science" or “Bachelor of Business Administration.” There is, however, on the Bothell and Tacoma degrees an extra line at the bottom where there is a different “Chancellor” signature. Unless someone is actually looking at the physical degree and happens to know that Kenyon Something-or-Other is the chancellor of UW Bothell, then they won’t know the difference.</p>
<p>@seatac: I have to double-check my proofs and I don’t have time. I’ll get back to you.</p>
<p>@seatac: UW Bothell does not have secondary accreditation in Accounting. But that doesn’t matter if you are trying to be a CPA in Washington State. The only states which it matter in are New Mexico, New York, Arkansas and Alabama.</p>
<p>@XaviFM Awesome! Thanks. Do you know the full name of this accreditation? I wonder whether other state universities have it…</p>
<p>It’s not that good if UWB doesn’t have this accreditation - New York is a financial center of the world and I might end up there…</p>
<p>The AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) is the most renowned secondary accreditation agency for Business programs. They accredit individual schools of business and then they can also additionally accredit the schools for accounting. The University of Washington has 4 accreditations from AACSB. The Foster School at UW Seattle has both Business and Accounting, the Milgard School at UW Tacoma has Business and the UW Bothell Business school has Business accreditation as well.</p>
<p>All of these schools will give you the same level of prestige with your degree, but the accounting degree from UW Seattle will also give you the added benefit of having the prestige attached with AACSB Accounting. Although I argue the difference would be negligible, because as per AACSB’s own website the only places which it makes a substantive difference are NY, AL, NM and AR.</p>
<p>Basically don’t EVER get a business related degree which is not accredited by AACSB with a general accreditation. I would argue that the simple AACSB should be enough.</p>
<p>For the record, UW, WSU, CWU, WWU, EWU, Seattle U, Seattle Pacific and Gonzaga all have AACSB accreditation and UW, WSU and Gonzaga also have Accounting accreditation, although WSU’s website argues that they are one of the four in the state which has the Acct, so I don’t know if I’ve overlooked a 4th.</p>
<p>@seatac: there are a lot of places with Masters of Accounting. As long as you get your MAc from a place with AACSB Accounting accreditation, you should be fine.</p>
<p>As you can tell, I’ve been researching this issue for a while.</p>
<p>@XaviFM, thank you again for all this valuable information!</p>