ITU is among World Leaders with 26 ABET EAC Accredited Programs

As ITU starts the new academic year with a total of 26 ABET EAC accredited engineering undergraduate programs, it continues to be among the world leaders with its education quality.

Istanbul Technical University continues to be among the world leaders with its international level education quality with its ABET EAC accredited 25+1 engineering undergraduate programs in the 2023-2024 academic year. While ITU develops and maintains its title of “the university with the highest number of ABET EAC accredited engineering undergraduate programs” in Türkiye and its region, it continues to be among the leaders of higher education institutions with education quality assurance and accreditation at the global level.

Continuing to pursue its goals of continuously improving education quality and guiding the trends, engineering education and the profession of the 21st century as an indicator of its vision of transforming the future in the 250th Anniversary of its establishment, ITU continues to be the leader of our country in technical education with accreditations from ABET and similar globally respected institutions that have corporate quality management and quality assurance with independent, non-profit, transparent and impartial processes, where respected professionals who are experts in their fields take part voluntarily.

The below listed 26 programs offered by ITU are the engineering undergraduate programs accredited by ABET EAC (Engineering Accreditation Commission) (www.abet.org):

1. Computer Engineering
2. Mineral Processing Engineering
3. Environmental Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering
5. Electronics and Communication Engineering
6. Industrial Engineering
7. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
8. Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering
9. Marine Engineering
10. Geomatics Engineering
11. Food Engineering
12. Manufacturing Engineering
13. Civil Engineering
14. Management Engineering
15. Geophysical Engineering
16. Geological Engineering
17. Chemical Engineering
18. Control and Automation Engineering
19. Mining Engineering
20. Mechanical Engineering
21. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
22. Meteorological Engineering
23. Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
24. Textile Engineering
25. Aeronautical Engineering
26. Astronautical Engineering

About ABET

ABET is a non-profit, independent, international accreditation organization where volunteer professionals take part in the evaluation processes. Some data on ABET are as follows:

• Accreditation of higher education programs offering education and degrees at associate, bachelor’s and master’s levels in the disciplines of applied and natural science (ANSAC), computing (CAC), engineering (EAC) and engineering technologies (ETAC).
• Flagship among 4 main commissions: EAC (Engineering Accreditation Commission)
• Foundation: 1932 / first national accreditation of some engineering programs in the USA: 1936
• Initiation of the first international “equivalence” procedures outside the USA in the 1990s
• Accreditation of 4564 programs in 895 higher education institutions in 40 countries, according to 2023 data
• More than 2200 volunteer experts (academics, professionals from industry, etc.), more than 200 thousand ABET accredited graduates and new professionals every year