Hi, I am going to a community college school of Engineering Science(AAS) and is shown on the school site that it is not ABET Accredit. After two years there I will go into another school with a ABET Accredited to finish off electrical engineer (BS). My question is will this affect me in the future?
No, it won’t affect you as long as the ABET accredited college takes all of your CC credits. Your degree will be from an ABET accredited college and that is all that will matter.
So even if i graduate at a community college w/ non abet accredited, the school im transferring that is abet accredited will just cancel out the non abet? Sorry if i am confusing you just want to make sure.
It’s not that your first degree is “bad” and needed to be canceled out, it’s just that going through a specialty accreditation process is less common for associate’s programs. Most community colleges work with their state system schools to prove that their graduates are ready to transfer rather than seeking national accreditation for individual programs.
The school as a whole would have regional accreditation, but most individual majors probably do not have specialty accreditations like ABET, except in healthcare career programs where it’s required for graduates to get a job.
Get your bachelor’s from an ABET accredited program. You will be fine.
Alrights got it, thanks for the info appreciate it.
Most liberal arts majors do not (except for chemistry, where a major program can be ACS approved), but many other majors do have major-specific accreditation which is commonly expected, often as a prerequisite for occupational licensing:
Engineering (most kinds): ABET
Engineering technology: ABET
Architecture: NAAB
Landscape architecture: LAAB
Interior design: CIDA
Business: AACSB
Accounting: AACSB
Nursing: CCNE
Those where major-specific accreditation exists, but is not generally expected, although it can indicate that the program meets the minimum accreditation standards:
Computer science: ABET
Information technology: ABET
There may be others.
@ucbalumnus I was referring specifically to majors at community colleges.
Community college programs like x-ray technician are certified/accredited because you need an approved program to work in many health fields, but pretransfer engineering is not usually going to be ABET accredited because these types of accreditation are not really necessary as long as the community college system and the state four year system are working together well. I am not familiar with most of the ones on your list – do many of them certify community college programs?
They are accreditations for bachelor’s degree programs (4 years, 5 years for architecture).
Teacher prep programs are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE):
Tangentally, in California you can be that person who graduated in Biology and do 1 more year to get your Masters in Civil Engineering at an ABET school (someone has done this) and bam, you knocked out 5 years of experience towards your license.
tangentline- it seems as though there are too many courses required for CE along with prereqs to complete in just one year…especially with a BA in Bio instead of physics for example.
I would, however, make sure your CC classes are accepted at the 4 year school. This will be easiest if you go to a State college/university.