The national model universities of software engineering in 20 18 are: Peking University, Beijing University of Technology, Northeastern University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southeast University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Fudan University, East China Normal University, xidian university, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Hunan University, South China University of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Chongqing University, Jilin. Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi Jiaotong University, Dalian University of Technology, Nanjing University, Tianjin University, China University of Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Nankai University, Tongji University, Yunnan University, Wuhan University, Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Zhejiang University, Nanchang University, Shandong University, Central South University, Sun Yat-sen University, Xiamen University, Harbin Engineering University, Henan University.

Software engineering was added by the Ministry of Education in 2002. With the continuous expansion of computer application and the continuous development of China's economic construction, software engineering specialty will become a new hot specialty.