GT’s CM and Threads are ABET Accredited
October 6, 2010 at 8:33 am 4 comments
We got word that both of our undergraduate degrees at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing have been accredited by ABET. This may be of interest beyond Georgia Tech for a couple of reasons.
- The accreditation of our BS in Computer Science is the first since we adopted the Threads model for our curriculum. That was probably the most common question I got when we presented Threads at SIGCSE: “But will ABET accredit that?” The answer is “Yes.”
- ABET now has “Computing” accreditation criteria, as something more general than “Computer Science.” Our BS in Computational Media meets those criteria. It’s a positive move for ABET to open up its criteria to “Computing” more generally, and we’re pleased that our CM degree was recognized as meeting those criteria.
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gasstationwithoutpumps | October 6, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Now, if you could just gt your computational media student to fix the web page http://www.cc.gatech.edu/future/undergraduates/threads that describes the Threads program so that it displays reasonably in Firefox …
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