The Software Engineering master's degree program, in conjunction with the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, is designed as a 30-credit hour interdisciplinary graduate program jointly administered by the Department of Computer and Information Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The curriculum consists of required core courses and technical electives, providing opportunities to design and implement embedded systems and large-scale software systems.

All courses have access to a wide variety of computing resources: local area networks of 200+ Pentium PC's, the Sun Unix lab of 30+ stations, CAD/CAM robotics labs, and a CRAY T3-E scalable supercomputer. Student accounts allowing dial-in access are available to most computer facilities.

Students with an interest in pursuing doctoral studies or working in a research and development environment are encouraged to elect the thesis option.