<p>I recently graduated from a college with a B.S. in Computer Science. However, the college is not accredited by the ABET in Computer Science. DOes this matter at all? I noticed that many Ivy league schools do not have this accreditation for example Harvard, Princeton, Cornel, Columbia, Brown, and Yale. The funny thing is I went to two different schools and the first one I went too is now accredited by the ABET for CS; however, the college I graduated from I think was a much better school and had a better program and professors; however, it is not accredited by the ABET for the CS program. I sometimes think that colleges get these accreditations just to get noticed! Please shed some light on this issue for me.</p>
<p>Unless it has changed very recently, even MIT is not ABET accredited for computer science (as I remember).</p>
<p>Has someone told you it matters? It seems to me that making it an ABET accredited field might require some significant changes in course requirements, since cs is not treated the same as other fields in engineering schools (at least not the one my son is at).</p>
<p>No one has said it is important to me. The odd thing to me about it is that the first college I went too was not really a good school but they got accredited by the ABET while the school I went to that is not ABET Accredited was much better. Which makes me think that these accreditations really mean nothing in the Computer Science field.</p>