<p>Due to financial reasons I can only afford to attend a college that does offer a general engineering degree with materials engineering focus. Unfortunately, the college is not abet accredited. I would eventually like to go to a graduate school to study petroleum engineering which is where I wanna end up eventually in my career. </p>
<p>My question is whether a non abet accredited college has any negative effects in the real world when applying to graduate schools or for jobs and whether the academic path I have planned will help me land a job in Petro. engineering?</p>
<p>What school? (is the general engineering degree program ABET accredited as a general engineering or engineering science degree program?)</p>
<p>For the more traditional engineering subjects, including materials as well as chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, a bachelor’s degree program in the US without ABET accreditation is likely to raise questions*. If you plan to get Professional Engineer licensing, the lack of ABET accreditation may be another impediment.</p>
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<li>It is possible for a good degree program to be non-ABET accredited, but I have not heard of such in materials engineering, though such does exist in bioengineering and computer science (where Professional Engineer licensing is not generally an issue).</li>
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<p>The program not being ABET accredited is a BIG RED FLAG. ABET accreditation is required for most jobs in engineering, and may be required for admissions to most graduate programs… Especially in Petroleum engineering. </p>
<p>Can you start at a local community college, and then transfer into an ABET accredited program elsewhere down the line? That might be the best way for you to get started.</p>
<p>Avoid. I can’t imagine it would be much cheaper than another in-state school? What state do you live in / what school is it? Even if it’s a difference between $3000 per year, it’s not that big of a difference when you consider the total cost of going to college: tuition, living expenses, and most importantly the opportunity cost of working.</p>
<p>If you figure you could be making $30,000 not going to college and are spending $15,000 per year for living expenses, another $3-4000 per year for tuition isn’t going to be Earth-shattering. You really have to look beyond just the tuition cost.</p>
<p>That’s far from the truth: ABET accreditation is ‘required’ for only a minority of engineering jobs, mostly concentrated within the civil/structural-engineering industries. The GM’s, Boeing’s, GE’s, AT&T’s, and Intel’s of the world rarely require ABET accreditation. </p>
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<p>That’s also not correct - in fact, I can’t think of a single graduate PetE program that does require an ABET-accredited undergraduate degree. {Granted, such programs may exist, but they don’t seem particularly common.} That should be unsurprising as plenty of graduate PetE students never even majored in engineering at all as undergrads, but rather majored in a science (geology/geophysics/geochemistry/earth-sciences being well-represented, but sometimes including pure physics or chemistry).</p>
<p>Like sakky said ABET does not matter much when getting a job unless you are in civil or environmental. To get your PE you have to graduate from an abet accredited school. This is the reason it is so important for civil/environmental. </p>
<p>It also means that the school has to meet abet standards so it lets you and employers know it is at least up to abet standards. Im sure there are good programs that are not abet accredited.</p>
<p>Are any of the other programs at the school accredited? It could be in the process of becoming accredited.</p>