Is Northeastern’s Biomedical Engineering program ABET accredited? I seem to recall hearing that it would soon be but I haven’t located that information anyway. Thanks in advance for any insight.
Bioengineering is a new program and it is the candidacy stage of accreditation I believe.
I’m wondering if it will be accredited in 5 years when my child would complete his BS if attending there.
With any new professional program (engineering, medicine, law etc.) a program is not fully accredited until the first class graduates. It will have provisional accreditation until then. All other Northeastern programs are ABET accredited and I am sure Northeastern will fund this new department to ensure accreditation.
It would look really bad for Northeastern if the BioEng program didn’t get accreditation, so I’m sure they’ll make sure it happens. I also see no reason why they wouldn’t get it. The engineering department is strong, and they have had a graduate bioengineering program for years prior to the undergrad program.