School of Software Engineering

The School of Software Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is one of the leading education and research centers for software engineering in China. The School consists of 30 full time faculty members, 20 administrative and technical staff members, and a number of adjunct and visiting professors from both industry and academic, within China and from the USA, Japan, India and Australia. The current enrolment includes more than 1000 undergraduate students, and about 500 postgraduate students. The School provides two undergraduate degree programs in software engineering and digital media technologies. At postgraduate level, the master’s degree in software engineering is offered.

The professors in the School are associated with five subsidiary research institutes, working on the state-of-the-art research in the areas of digital arts, software engineering, network and information security, embedded systems and information management engineering. The center labs host over 500 computers, among which many are multi-processor servers, as well as the broadband and wireless network facilities. Students are encouraged to use the equipments and instruments in the open labs, like motion-capture and digital media lab and embedded systems lab to test their creative ideas. The School also runs four joint labs, with the co-operations from Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, and Mitsubishi.

Established in 2002, as one of the 35 state exemplary software schools chartered by the Ministry of Education, the School enjoys a high reputation as a pilot in practice-oriented engineering education. All postgraduate level students are required to spend one year participating in real projects in industry before coming back to the School for their thesis work. Undergraduate students have opportunities to receive practical skills trainings either on campus or working as interns in software companies. As a result of their hands-on experience, many students won titles in various international and national software development competitions. In 2010, the School was rated one of the top 10 most competitive software schools in job market by China Competitiveness Forum.

Most of the 3,000 graduates from the School are now engineers, managers, and entrepreneurs in global software industry, while some are pursuing higher degrees in China and overseas. These alumni form a powerful network, continuing to support the School to fulfill its mission and objectives: 
--To provide professional education in software engineering and related areas. 
--To innovate in science and technology on software engineering. 
--To serve the local and national software industry and society.