Software Engineering and Management (M.Sc.) – (M.Sc.)

The Master´s programme "Software Engineering and Management" (MSEM) is located in the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science of Heilbronn University. It is dedicated to qualify first-degree graduates for management and leadership activites in international software engineering domains. Our Master´s program is created in close consultation with business, industry and the professions and in response to a challenging and rapidly developing environment.
Besides subject knowledge, future professional success in software engineering depends on competences in project management, change management and strategic information managment as well as interpersonal and intercultural competences. Therefore, the Master´s programme MSEM is taking a cross-disciplinary approach which will enable you to interact appropriately and responsibly in a complex multi-dimensional environment.

Career Prospects

Where the technological, organisational and entrepreneurial aspects of software development meet, you enter the exciting world of Software Engineering and Management...

At the heart of complex, multi-dimensional organisations, software engineering involves more than just the development of modern information systems. Consequently, software engineers need to move beyond the boundaries of their job-specific expertise and enhance their professional profiles by acquiring managerial and interpersonal competences. Software engineers who aim to be future business leaders should not only possess such multiple skills, but should be able to translate theoretical knowledge into business practices, engender interdisciplinary dialogues and communicate successfully in an international and intercultural environment.

The M.Sc. Software Engineering and Management has been tailored to the needs of students who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches and seek a good foundation for their future careers. It enables them to interact effectively, confidently and responsibly in increasingly complex, multidimensional work environments of software development - anywhere on the globe.

Teaching and Learning

The M. Sc. Software Engineering and Management offers a number of specific benefits and assets such as

* lectures delivered exclusively in English,
* a favourable student-lecturer ratio,
* an interdisciplinary curriculum,
* integration of management and engineering practices,
* a clearly structured and time-efficient schedule,
* sustained teaching quality by systematic student appraisal,
* state-of-the-art facilities,
* innovative forms of teaching as well as
* creative forms of learning, e.g. problem-based and blended learning.

Using case studies and working in teams not only improves analytical and problem solving capacities but familiarizes our students with methodological and creative problem-solving techniques and the relational skills which are vital for future business leaders.

Faculty

Heilbronn University has appointed a body of notable academics who possess unique competences that derive from their qualifications and professional experience. They have all worked in industry or commerce and understand, at first hand, the challenges presented by a global business world. Moreover, most tenured lecturers are involved in (inter)national research projects.

In addition, the Master in Software Engineering and Management is executed and has been created in close consultation with business, industry and the engineering professions to ensure the employability of the prospective graduates. Cooperating companies are, inter alia, AUDI AG, Daimler AG, Bosch Engineering GmbH, Würth GmbH and SAP AG.