KEWP: To late I already went to graduate school for Engineering – at an institution easily on par with the UC system.

I have never attended a truly elite school, but I also recognize that those elite schools don’t really need to be ABET accredited (ie. MIT, Cal Tech, Harvard, etc…) – that accreditation is for the rest of us.

There actually are (2) Elite schools in the UC system IMO: Berkeley and UCLA.