California State University, Fullerton

I thought this was a pretty good program overall. It seemed a bit too theoretical in some classes but I really enjoyed it.

I completed the Master's program in 2007. The Cal State Fullerton MSE program offers an excellent graduate program covering the core "process-oriented" software engineering concepts. The Software Engineering Master's program is different from a Computer Science Master's program in that Software Engineering is geared towards providing the graduate student with a strong foundation in topics such as CMMI, Requirements Analysis, Software Measurement, Software Process, Project Management, Software Verification and Validation, and Software Architecture (vs. Design). Overall, the MSE program at Cal State Fullerton was highly effective in providing a solid education through the use of online technology (for lectures, discussion, and homework assignments) and distributed project teams. If you want to have more "Computer Science" programming work, that could still be accomplished through the required Capstone Master's graduate project. Therefore, the graduate student is able to gain valuable experience with the higher-level Software Engineering concepts such as Requirements Analysis and Project Management (through distributed project teams -- this mirrors the real-world with distributed collaboration using online tools and telecons) and work at a lower-level programming task through the individual Master's graduate project.

I have been working in software development for more than 12 years and this program helped me leverage my career.

The program started in Fall of 2005. I completed the program and I recommend anyone who wants to pursue advance education from the public university in California. The instructors and course curriculum were great. A lot more home works and studies were required with this program.