A national professional organization again has included Mississippi State's engineering and computer science programs on its list of approved curricula.

An evaluation team from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's Engineering Accreditation Commission visited the university last fall.

The 1999 site visit, along with a self-study submitted by the College of Engineering, resulted in the recent ABET reaccredidation notification.

The engineering college offers bachelor's degrees in nine fields. They include aerospace, biological, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, and mechanical. Computer science is the only non-engineering program in the college.

Specifically, computer science's reaccreditation notification came from the ABET-affiliated Computer Science Accreditation Commission of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board.