Advantages of Accreditation

JABEE’s Accreditation is the third-party accreditation. In the third-party accreditation, the education institution is required to publicize the learning outcomes and to ensure the accountability to the society. Also the responsibility of education is relied on organization such as, the department, but not the individual faculty member. The first advantage is the fact that the program has been accredited by the third-party.

Evaluation focuses on the reform towards outcomes-based education, educational improvement by the PDCA cycle, engineering design education and teamwork education, which are specifically important for professional education. The second advantage is that the education is improved through accreditation.

JABEE Accreditation Criteria has been made by taking consideration of the IEA GAPC. The IEA is a governing umbrella entity of the Washington Accord which is an international framework of engineering education accreditation of which JABEE is a signatory member. JABEE accredited programs are recognized as internationally substantially equivalent.

Non-JABEE accredited program graduates have to take the first step examination of national professional engineer, whereas, JABEE graduates are exempted. It is a big burden to prepare years after graduation while working for the first step examination which is composed of academic elements. Exemption is another advantage.