The reason that we're not accredited isn't because of the program size, but rather the administration didn't find it necessary. Computer science as a field is different from engineering, where it's absolutely necessary to have accreditation. For a university like McMaster which has a good enough reputation, it's not really a big deal, from what I've heard people that graduate from the undergraduate program usually have a high change of getting hired. Plus, for the program to be accredited, there would be issues in the type of programming language (i,e, which is the best one) as well as the course structure. The program itself would need to be a lot more rigid with less electives which is really counter-intuitive to computer science as an applied science.
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