Software Engineering M.S.

Become a Leader in Software Engineering

With your Master of Science in Software Engineering from UHCL, you’ll be prepared to take a leadership role in the industry. You’ll be best prepared for your graduate coursework by having an undergraduate degree in Computer Science. Studies in this degree address the foundations, methodologies and tools used in the management, planning, design and engineering of software systems. By providing a careful balance between theory and practice, the plan prepares you for central software positions in industry, government and institutions where software engineering has become a key activity.

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UHCL Gives You Great Opportunities

As a software engineer, you’ll become a specialist with the skills and knowledge to take charge of the testing, design, development and maintenance of computer software for business and personal use. UHCL allows you to choose extended course work and either the capstone option or thesis option to complete your degree. The plan requires core areas of software engineering to be mastered, and each of these areas is covered by a dedicated set of core and extended courses.

With this degree, you can choose from four optional specializations:

• Gaming
• Robotics Software
• Software Project Management
• Data Mining

We also offer this program in the traditional face-to-face classroom setting and fully online.

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Admission Requirements

Take your education to new heights in University of Houston-Clear Lake's College of Science and Engineering. Learn the next steps to being admitted now.

• Software Engineering M.S.
• Admission Deadline
  Standard Graduate Admission Deadline
• Application
  A standard university application is required.
• Requirements
  • 3.0 GPA
  • GRE Total Score of 290 (140 Verbal + 150 Quantitative)
    • Not required with cumulative GPA >= 3.0
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other computing or engineering discipline.
  • Foundation Courses: Data Structures and at least two other programming classes. Programming classes such as C, C++, Java or Object Oriented Programming are examples.

  Find out if you meet program requirements using the Program Qualification Estimator.

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Degree Requirements

UHCL's College of Science and Engineering has created a solid foundation of study designed to help you make your educational dreams a reality. Explore the classes you'll need to take for your University of Houston-Clear Lake degree.

Software Engineering M.S.

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