International ABET Accreditation: From The Perspective Of A South African Information Systems Department
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The undergraduate Information Systems program of the Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria recently obtained ABET accreditation. Having an accredited program and keeping it accredited, has quite a few implications on the processes and structure of the department. However, the paper will mainly focus on the difficulties surrounding getting a non-US IS program accredited by a US based accreditation body. It is the hope that the insights that we gained from this experience will assist other hosts of non-US programs in their preparations for ABET accreditation.
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