<p>The accreditation in question is [ABET[/url</a>] accreditation. Major at UC Berkeley with ABET accreditation include CE, ChE, EECS, IEOR, ME, MSE, and NE. Note that engineering majors at UC Berkeley that are not ABET accredited include the Engineering Science majors and Bioengineering (although ABET accreditation does exist for these majors).</p>
<p>UC Berkeley as a whole is accredited by the [url=<a href=“http://www.wascweb.org/]Western”>http://www.wascweb.org/]Western</a> Association of Schools and Colleges](<a href=“http://www.abet.org%5DABET%5B/url”>http://www.abet.org).</p>
<p>ABET accreditation is essential in some engineering majors (particularly civil), where a Professional Engineer license is often essential to advance one’s career. It is also a validation of the baseline quality of a lesser known engineering degree program.</p>
<p>However, in computer science and engineering, ABET accreditation is usually not an issue; employers are not likely to care that much whether a computer science degree is ABET accredited (although it is at least theoretically possible that some employer may make that a criterion).</p>