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Alex_2487
26-01-2010, 20:49
i'm currently going to a local community college for computer science and when i transfer i'm looking to :rolleyes: my major to software engineering. can anyone give me some colleges that have good SE programs?
DonRotolo
26-01-2010, 21:36
Rochester Institute of Technology.

I wanted to go there but wasn't accepted. 30 years ago. :rolleyes:
kevin.li.rit
26-01-2010, 21:52
I would also suggest RIT.
lon.bushweiler
28-01-2010, 10:39
Milwaukee School of Engineering

Of course I am not bias:)
Chris is me
28-01-2010, 11:03
RPI's Software / Computer Systems Engineering program is fairly good. Obviously I'm biased.
Chris Hibner
28-01-2010, 12:25
What type of software engineering would you like to do? There are a lot of specialties within software, like embedded software (control systems for things like robots, machines, cars, aircraft, etc), graphics, PC Applications, etc. Depending on which you like to do best, you may want to adjust your major.
Joe Ross
28-01-2010, 15:22
At some schools, software engineering may be the same thing as computer science at another school. Other schools may place a much greater emphasis on process and how to manage complex software projects and call that software engineering, while having a separate computer science degree that is more heavily dependent on algorithms and coding. Make sure you understand what you want.

Here's RIT's program descriptions for software engineering (http://www.rit.edu/programs/program_detail.php?id=634) and computer science (http://www.rit.edu/programs/program_detail.php?id=542) so you can compare.