The undergraduate program in Civil Engineering was evaluated by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) for the first time in 1996 and judged to be substantially equivalent to similarly named accredited programs in U.S.A. The Civil Engineering program has also been evaluated by ABET in 2004 according to ABET 2000 criteria and judged to be substantially equivalent to similarly named accredited programs in U.S.A. through 2010