I am the compliance officer at a private posetsecondary college that has been accredited with ACCSC for 13 years. I've found them to be fair and consistent in their application of standards, most of which are pretty common sense. In some instances (and it makes me a little crazy sometimes) ACCSC standards are nebulous leaving the school to determine certain quantatative issues such "appropriate amount of" or "reasonable and sustainable". For instance, ACCSC does not mandate how long a graduate must be on the job post graduation to be considered "employed in field", only that it must be a reasonable period of time and be considered sustainable, but in any event can not be based on one day on the job. This resulted in no end of arguments in our school's management as to how long on the job could be considered reasonable and sustainable, and no one in management was willing to make a committment to a time period and define an argument as to why such a time period was indicative of reasonable and sustainable.
There are instances within the ACCSC Standards of Accreditation where I wish they were less "nebulous".
In any event as to your specific question, yes ACCSC has a specific minimum benchmark for employment rate outcomes, 70% accross the board. Of course there are certain allowances for removing cettain graduates from the "available for employment" pool within a cohort (continued education; non-citizen not authorized to work in the USA; incarceration; called to active military service etc,), but that 70% is a pretty solid benchmark otherwise. And it is reportable by each program/program variant.
