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

Learning content: Software engineering is based on computer science and technology, emphasizing the engineering nature of software development, so that students can master the basic knowledge, methods and skills necessary for software requirements analysis, software design, software testing, software maintenance and software project management on the basis of computer science and technology knowledge and skills, highlight the cultivation of students' professional knowledge and skills, and cultivate senior professionals who can engage in software development, testing, maintenance and software project management.

Employment orientation: After graduation, students majoring in this major can engage in office automation processing, computer installation and maintenance, web page production, computer network and professional server maintenance and development, dynamic business website development and management, software testing and development, computer-related equipment commodity trade and so on. In addition to being admitted to famous universities at home and abroad, the main graduation destinations are computer software professional companies, information consulting companies, and other wholly-owned and joint ventures such as finance.

Employment prospects: The scale of China's software industry is not very large, and some software companies only adopt some software engineering ideas in software production, which is far from large-scale industrial production. The reasons are management system problems, market problems, policy problems, and incomplete and imperfect software engineering theory. Therefore, the research and application of software engineering, as well as the further development of China's software industry, need certain software engineering scientific and technical personnel with both theoretical foundation and research ability of software engineering and certain practical experience to promote it. The future of software engineering is bright. Software service outsourcing is a modern service industry with intensive intellectual talents. A large number of well-known outsourcing enterprises have settled in Ningbo. The main employment destinations include software outsourcing and service enterprises, information products and service enterprises, and work as programmers, software testers and project managers.