Program Facts

GU Software Engineering Facts

• Recent Gannon SE graduates have secured employment at top organizations such as Bayer Corporation, Citizens Bank, Erie Insurance, General Electric, and Hamot Medical Center.
• Graduates from Gannon’s Software Engineering program enjoy a 100% placement in either employment or graduate studies.
• SE majors have benefitted from work experiences, complementing their academic work, at sites such as Erie Insurance, General Electric, Lord Corporation, US Steel, and Hamot Medical Center.

Major Facts

• Recently, software engineering was ranked by Money Magazine as the “best job” in America, with strong growth prospects, potential for creativity and strong average salaries.
• Software engineering has consistently been rated among the top four professions in the U.S. by various nationwide surveys.
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, software engineers are projected to be one of the fastest-growing occupations between now and 2016. Software engineers typically earn $53,500 to $105,000 annually.

About the Program

• SE majors in the program learn to:
  • Realize and manage high quality software development lifecycle processes in one or more application domains
  • Apply discrete mathematics and abstract structures to system development
  • Apply quantitative measures in the evaluation of software components and systems
    
• The program is one of only 25 such offerings in the U.S. and one of only 60 in the world.
• Professionally-involved, technical faculty, including those with professional certification in software development, teach and mentor majors.
• The SE program is hosted by the Computer and Information Science (CIS) department along with the related CIS majors of the computing and information fields: bioinformatics, computer science, and information systems.
• The program shares CIS facilities and courses with the related majors in the computing and information fields enabling participation in interdisciplinary and team-based projects.