Value of ACS Approval
Data are from the 2022 Annual Report (n=634 programs)
The survey was deployed as part of the 2022 annual report and sent to 700 institutions (634 provided data). The survey question permitted respondants to choose all that apply.
Data - Value to institutions
Results - Benefits to Institutions
56% of programs use ACS approval as a way to regularly evaluate their program.
61% of programs use the guidelines and ACS approval as a way to drive curricular development.
68% of programs use the guidelines and approval as leverage with their administration to obtain things like updated instrumentation, additional faculty lines, etc.
29% of programs use the guidelines to maintain faculty workloads.
<1% of programs indicated that ACS approval is not valued.
Data - Value to students
Results - Benefits to Students
68% of programs use approval to help them recruit students into their institution.
68% of programs said that students benefit from approval simply through name recognition of ACS
By far the programs felt that ACS approval helped students gain valuable skills for
Becoming a chemist (83%)
Getting admitted to graduate school (84%)
Getting admitted to medical or professional school (21%)
2% of the programs felt that approval did not benefit students at all.