Annoyingly, the US government still sometimes does. If you want to take the patent agent exam, your CS degree has to come from an ABET-accredited program, thou

Annoyingly, the US government still sometimes does. If you want to take the patent agent exam, your CS degree has to come from an ABET-accredited program, though many of the very good ones aren't (Stanford, CMU). Likewise, federal jobs also sometimes seem to want accreditation but not always.