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Software Engineering

Teaching Medium: English
Degree Awarded: Master's Degree
Entry Requirements: Bachelor's Degree
Duration: 2 Years
Starting Date: Sep.2025
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Tuition Fee:
CNY 25,000 per year
Application Fee:
150 USD (Non-Refundable)
Schools: Other


Note: The course only open with a minimum number of 10 students for Master’s degree.


Educational Objectives
This program aims to cultivate well-grounded, practical, creative and all-round talents who are well developed in morality, intelligence and physical condition to meet the requirements of the software industry.

Core Courses
Survey of China
Communicative Chinese
Applied Statistics
Operation System & Intensive Programming
Object-Oriented Programming (Java)
Database Technology
Java EE Application Development
Data Structure & Algorithm Design
Modern Software Engineering
Mobile Application Development
Cloud Computing & Virtualization
Computer Networks & Security
Data Mining
Software Project Management
Software Testing Technology
Academic Exchanges and Academic Report
Dissertation Proposal
Dissertation Mid-term Report
Project Practice

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Program Outcomes
Students are educated to have good scientific literacy with the fundamental theory and knowledge in software engineering and creative industry. Qualified students can manage the system analysis, development and maintenance of software engineering related projects and have abilities in project organization and management, as well as skills in teamwork, technical innovation and market development.

Degree

Master Degree in Engineering in Central South University.


Teaching Team

1. Dr.Ren Shengbing, associate professor of school of software, Central South University, the dean of Embedded System Department, was once a visiting scholar in the Concordia University in Canada from 2002 to 2003. His research interests include software engineering, embedded systems, graphic information processing. He has participated in 4 national government sponsored research projects and published more than 40 papers in various academic journals and conferences. He has been the chief editor of textbooks entitled  and . He has won the prize of "Outstanding Achievements in Education" of Hunan province. He has been the main lecturer of the courses including modern software engineering, software metrics and testing.


2. Dr.Liao Zhifang, associate professor of school of software, Central South University, the dean of Software Engineering Department, was once a visiting scholar in The British University in England from Jan,2002 to Jun,2003. Her research interests include data mining, computer networks and virtual reality. She has participated in several national research projects and published more than 20 papers in various academic journals and conferences. She has been the main lecturer of the courses including computer networks, Internet and data mining. She has won Excellent teaching quality award and 2nd Prize of Bilingual teaching competition of Central South University.


3. Dr.Zhao Ming, associate professor of school of software, Central South University, vice dean of  school of software , has been a visiting scholar in America Missouri State University from Nov,2013 to Oct.,2014. His research interests include optimization of Wireless networks. He has participated in 14 research projects, and won the second prize of progress of science and technology award from China Nonferrous Metal Industry Association. He has published more than 20 papers in various academic journals and conferences. He has been the main lecturer of the courses including Large scale database and Mobile Computing.


4. Dr. Chen Jianer, professor of Central South University, distinguished professors of “thousand talents plan” and “Yangtze river scholars”. In1990, he became a professor in the college of computer science at Texas A&M University in America and awarded the prize of “outstanding achievements” in 1998. His research interests include computer theory and application technology. He has published more than 70 papers in world-class scientific journals and academic annual conferences, and won the first prize of progress of science and technology award from educational ministry.  He has been the main lecturer of the courses including Advanced Computer Algorithms, Computer Optimization and Applications, and Computational Geometry.



1. Non-Chinese citizens with a valid passport

2. Applicant should hold Bachelor's Degree or equivalent to a Chinese Bachelor's Degree

3. Be in good health condition and above the age of 35

1.Photocopy of valid passport
With photo, passport number &expiration date and name included.

2.Passport-sized photo
A passport-sized photo taken recently of the applicant.

3.Bachelor's degree diploma
Graduation certificate should be in Chinese or English.If not, it should be translated into Chinese or English and be notarized.

4.Transcript of undergraduate school

5.Health certificate(optional)
Photocopy of notarized foreigner physical examination record (for durations of study over 6 months) 

6.Two recommendation letters
From professor,associate professor or equivalents.

7.Certificate of English proficiency test
IELTS or TOEFl will only be required if the applicant is not a native English speaker.