ABET Accreditation of MIS Programs in AACSB Schools

The development of ABET/CAC accreditation standards for IS programs would appear to present an excel-lent opportunity for IS programs in AACSB-accredited business schools to improve their quality and credi-bility. A comparison of AACSB and ABET/CAC accreditation standards finds them to be generally quite compatible with one another. A survey of IS program leaders in AACSB-accredited business schools found familiarity with and interest in ABET/CAC standards to be just emerging. Although compliance with the ABET/CAC standards is evidently relatively high among most programs, understanding of potential bene-fits of accreditation is quite low. Also quite low is understanding of how colleagues might react to accredi-tation efforts