[Tutor] off topic

[Robin B. Lake]

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Robin B. Lake wrote:
> 
> > Suggest you surf over to:
> > http://www.csab.org/acrsch.html
> > 
> > for a list of undergraduate CS programs accreditied by the
> > Computer Sciences Accreditation Board.  Note that many fine
> > programs are NOT accredited, usually because of a minor conflict
> > between the CSAB course distribution requirements and the
> > University's distribution requirements.
> 
> LOL, most of the top-ranked schools in computer science *are not on the
> list.*
> 
> Dartmouth? Nope
> Carnegie-Mellon? Nope
> Stanford? Nope
> UC Irvine? Nope
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign? Nope
> Virginia Tech? Nope
> 
> I suggest looking for a good regionally-accredited school.
> 
> -- 

And, there are even MORE non-accredited programs at those institutions
that DO have CASB-accreditation.  There simply is not one mold that
fits all institutions and education is more robust for it.

Rob Lake
rbl@hal.cwru.edu