Program Overview & Degrees

At Stevens, we offer flexible Master's Degrees and Graduate Certificates for current and aspiring software engineering practioners. Our courses teach you the latest and best software engineering skills and theory, to allow you to effectively architect, build, and maintain both large and small scale systems.  In addition to online and evening classes, we now offer accelerated classes in intensive, 5-day sessions. Click here to learn more: Accelerated Software Engineering Graduate Certificate Classes start May 2009.

The Master of Science program in Software Engineering (SSW) emphasizes the skills needed to apply software technologies to the realization of software products on time, within budget and with known quality.  It is a systems-oriented approach to building software products and embedded software in other products.

The Master of Science in Software Engineering is geared towards the following students:

• The formally educated computer professional who aspires to a managerial career and wants comprehensive hands-on training in the skills needed to identify customer requirements, develop software designs, manage a software development team and evaluate the resulting software product relative to customer specifications.
• The formally educated computer professional who wants to remain an individual contributor yet needs to employ systems thinking, manage outsourced projects, and attain a solid foundation in the practical application of engineering technologies to the realization of software products
• The computer professional whose educational background is not in computer science or computer engineering, but who has learned software skills on the job and who now needs software and systems engineering education.
• The student who plans a career in business management or investment in software intensive industries.
• The systems engineer whom needs a firm base in software concepts.