“…The complexity of universities as conglomerates of different specializations has been widely studied in higher education, including analyses of how academic cultures differ in terms of status, ways of producing and reproducing knowledge, and specialized language (Becher & Trowler, 1989;Doberneck & Schweitzer, 2017;Musselin & Becquet, 2008;Ylijoki et al, 2011). Increasingly, students of higher education have explored different aspects of accreditation, including the role of these regulatory agencies and the responses and impact they have on institutions and programs (Adrogue et al, 2019;Bejan et al, 2015;Corengia, 2015;Massaro, 2010;Papadimitriou & Westerheijden, 2010). However, we still know little about the relationship between accreditation processes and academic disciplines, how programs from different disciplines perform and their responses to their accreditation.…”