Our CS department just spent an entire year on our reaccreditation. It’s a huge pain in the ass and takes a ton of effort. But it’s one of the main thing parents ask about. People definitely care.
Yes and no. Unaccredited are a red flag but proven abilities shows it was legitimate enough. Still makes it harder to get through the door with an unaccredited degree. Which is reason to care.
Are you involved in hiring? Because I check the degree of every single resume I review, I have to. The other day I got a resume from a candidate who has a degree from Albany State University which I never heard of. So I pulled up their website and go to the "Accreditation" link and saw that it's accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Even if it wasn't comment policy - when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience who do you interview/hire - the guy with the mail-order "degree" or the guy who has an accredited degree?
But why? Lol what does it achieve? What’s the point?
> when you're reviewing the resumes of Jr engineers who have literary zero work experience
Maybe look at what they can do not where they learned it? How do you evaluate self-taught and people with no degrees? Does no degree beat non-accredited or not?
And here’s another question - why do you trust the accreditors? What do they know that colleges don’t? How do you evaluate an accreditor?
You're asking me about a company policy I had no part in. But why? Lol what does that achieve? Making you look clever on the internet? Concern trolling?
If there's no point in anything and nothing is ever achieved then why does anyone spend time and money on getting an education and including it in their resume? Maybe there is a point and something is achieved after all.
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>How do you evaluate self-taught and people with no degrees?
I don't, I literally just told you company policy is Jr candidates must have an accredited degree.
I have no idea what nonsense you're rambling on about. The question was who is checking degree accreditation and that's what I answered.
If my company told me to check accreditation I'd ask these questions to them because it seems discriminatory and nonsensical and I'd be worried about their thinking.
> why does anyone spend time and money on getting an education and including it in their resume?
The point is the education - not the accreditation.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it on government job postings. In fact, many of the federal CS jobs require ABET-accredited degree programs, which is annoying because many of the better programs aren't (Stanford and CMU, for example).
Accreditation may matter for immigration (some places give extra points to people with degrees), possibly student loans, and things like that.
I still don’t get it - why would you check accreditation as part of a background check? Like why do you care? What do you do with the information? Why do you care what an accrediting body thinks about anything?
