ACBSP Accreditation

[TPG]

Its me again with more questions. So I posted before about supply chain management from UMPI. I am really leaning toward this because it seems like exactly what I want. But my concern is this ACBSP accreditation. I had been pm-ing with another user who gave me some information, which I am very grateful for but how important is this? I saw on fb sophia page that some jobs wont hire you if your degree doesn't have this. I also saw on this forum that ACBSP is the best and per google, its not even worth getting a business degree if it doesn't have this. I really just need a straight answer: will my degree be useless if I get it from this university because it doesn't have whatever this ACBSP accreditation is? 
I know no one can really say what jobs will accept or not but I am sure some of you have an idea if this is as important as other web searches are making it out to be? 
TESU has operations management, which I don't really want and EC has logistics but I am fearful too many credits wont count and I can't pay $510 per credit. So I would really love to do UMPI but I am nervous to waste the time and money and when I apply for a job, this degree means nothing. (I will not be living in Maine, I don't know where I'll be living because I am currently trying to relocate to the Midwest)

Thanks for your help, again. 

I dont mean to sound rude or negative but I need to pick a school so I can file my FAFSA and I have changed my mind about 20 times in the last 2 weeks :/ 
Edit: apparently there are other accreditation too. I dont know the acronyms off the top of my head, but if you have insight on those as well...It also looks like its not a major deal if I dont plan on teaching, which I dont but I dont have any experience in this field so I need all the help I can get so if this would hinder me I wont go here.

[Courcelles]

ACBSP is an absolute joke.  UMPI is RA, that's enough.

If anyone ever cared about programmatic accreditation in business, it'd be AACSB in the States, AACSB/EQUIS/AMBA globally.

[ashkir]

Honestly, people are putting way more weight on ACBSP then they need to. I've worked in business for many years, nobody's ever once said anything about ACBSP until I found DegreeForum and the Sophia groups on Facebook complaining about how they "must" have it. But, I haven't seen any job ads actually REQUIRE it unless it was at the PhD/DBA level.

I don't think your job will care. When I was curious about this I asked my CEO, he asked a few of his friends. We work directly with several Fortune 500s. They dont' care about it.

ACBSP in my opinion is just a fancy sticker. As long as your degree is from a reputable accreditation body, you should be fine.

The FAFSA deadline for 2021-2022 is closed. Always file your FAFSA ASAP you can edit to add different schools later with no penalty.

[TPG]

Honestly, people are putting way more weight on ACBSP then they need to. I've worked in business for many years, nobody's ever once said anything about ACBSP until I found DegreeForum and the Sophia groups on Facebook complaining about how they "must" have it. But, I haven't seen any job ads actually REQUIRE it unless it was at the PhD/DBA level.

I don't think your job will care. When I was curious about this I asked my CEO, he asked a few of his friends. We work directly with several Fortune 500s. They dont' care about it.

ACBSP in my opinion is just a fancy sticker. As long as your degree is from a reputable accreditation body, you should be fine.

The FAFSA deadline for 2021-2022 is closed. Always file your FAFSA ASAP you can edit to add different schools later with no penalty

Thanks!! I was really stressing lol

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ACBSP is an absolute joke.  UMPI is RA, that's enough.

If anyone ever cared about programmatic accreditation in business, it'd be AACSB in the States, AACSB/EQUIS/AMBA globally.

Thanks. I will definitely be applying here!

[allvia]

It would be rare that an employer would even know what ACBSP is (or any of the other professional accreditations); especially at a bachelor level.  What matter is the school accreditation, and RA is what you want (although you'll have some that argue NA and RA are now 'the same').  Both TESU and UMPI are RA schools - go with the program you'd prefer.

[freeloader]

Here’s all you need to know: go to indeed.com or the job search engine of your choice. Type in the major urban area of your choice. Then type in ACBSP as a search term.

I did this for the New York, NY metro area. I also did a search for AACSB, probably the premier business school accreditor in the United States. Know how many currently active jobs have AACSB or ACBSP listed as in their job ads in the New York metro area right now? Zero. There are 10,000 plus jobs in accounting and finance alone in that area, to say nothing of other business fieldsC listed on indeed. None of them mention AACSB or ACBSP. None.

I am in the accounting world and have been for a few years. I think I have seen 2 or 3 job ads* that mentioned programmatic accreditation. They wanted AACSB-accredited degrees.

The asterisk is because you will, as others note, see the requirement for programmatic accreditation for some college and university teaching jobs. But they care about your highest degree. If you want to teach, do really well at UMPI and apply to competitive, AACSB-accredited grad programs. Academic employers will care about your graduate degree(s).

[GizmoJack]

I wouldn't worry much about ACBSP. As many others have said, it's not something many employers look for. I would choose the UMPI supply chain program if I were you.

Having spent the last 20+ years in Supply Chain, what SC hiring managers DO covet is APICS certification. Go to Indeed or LinkedIn and type "CSCP" and you will see several hundred jobs in just about every state that list this cert as a minimum or preferred qualification. All things being equal, these certs will at least move your resume to the top of the pile. There is also the CPIM and CLTD certs which many say are just as valuable to have. 

Please note, you need a Bachelor's degree OR 3 years SC work experience to be eligible to take the CSCP test. I don't remember the requirements for the other two but here is a link for more info: https://www.ascm.org/learning-developmen...edentials/

[bjcheung77]

Not sure who you were PM-ing, but ACBSP is more like icing on a cake. It's a good thing to have, but not necessary for most positions out there. You're not losing out at UMPI. If you like CBE, check out the courses at WGU, if the BSBA courses interest you more, take that route. Then there are the Big 3, you just need to transfer in all your credits but do 6/7 credits with them. Again, ACBSP isn't necessary, I've only seen a few postings for community college instructors and it was a recommendation to have ACBSP, not a must...

[dfrecore]

I think it's kind of like going to an Ivy school - the only people that care are the ones that went. The only people that care if a degree is ACBSP is someone who has a degree that's ACBSP.

ACBSP isn't even top-tier, AACSB is better, so it's funny that anyone would be discussing it at all, saying it was important. I've worked in HR, I've looked for jobs over the last few years, not a single time has it ever come up. Nobody cares. Employers certainly don't care - heck, they don't even always know RA vs. NA, they certainly aren't going to know programmatic accreditation. This is just not one of the areas where this kind of thing matters.

[sanantone]

AACSB accreditation is considered top tier business accreditation. Almost no one outside of academia cares about AACSB, ACBSP, or IACBE. There are a couple of rare situations in which you will have an advantage by having an AACSB or ACBSP-accredited degree.

AACSB focuses on research while ACBSP focuses on teaching quality. It just so happens that the prestigious business schools seek AACSB accreditation, but there are also a lot of no-name universities with AACSB accreditation. ACBSP accreditation is mostly sought by nontraditional and small colleges that don't hire professors to conduct research.