ABET is excited to announce that the American Statistical Association (ASA) — the world’s largest community of statisticians — has been admitted to CSAB as a full member, effective immediately. ASA joins the world’s two largest professional and technical societies for computing, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), to promote and assure quality in computing and computing-related education through accreditation.
As the lead ABET member society for computing, CSAB is responsible for developing accreditation criteria and selecting, training and assigning program evaluators in computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, information technology and software engineering. There are currently more than 600 ABET-accredited undergraduate degree programs in these fields spanning 26 countries.