Software Engineering
Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSEng)
Software engineers address today's problems and shape the future. They develop self-driving vehicles, automate smart cities, advance healthcare, secure critical infrastructure and more. Learn the skills needed to design, analyze and implement safe, secure, reliable and scalable large-scale software systems.
Quick facts
- Program options:
- Bachelor degree
- Study options:
- Full-time study
- Program delivery:
- On-campus
- Dynamic learning:
- Co-op required
Areas of focus
- Cyber-physical and smart systems
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Data mining and analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Interaction design and data visualization
- Performance and scalability
- Visual computing (vision/graphics)
Careers
- Business intelligence developer
- Chief technology officer
- Cloud architect
- Cybersecurity analyst
- Data administrator
- Data analyst
- Data engineer
- Network engineer
- Programmer
- Software architect
- Software developer
- Software engineer
- Systems analyst
- Systems architect
- Systems designer
Sample courses
- Software Testing - SENG 275
- Human Computer Interaction - SENG 310
- Software System Scalability - SENG 468
- Data Mining - SENG 474
- Advanced Programming Techniques for Robust Efficient Computing - SENG 475
Admission
Apply to the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science as a high school student or a transfer student from another post-secondary institution.
If you're a high school student, you will declare Software Engineering as your program after one year of full-time study.
If you're a transfer student, select Software Engineering as your preferred program when you submit your application to UVic.
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You must demonstrate English language proficiency to attend UVic. Your transcripts are enough to prove proficiency if you've studied full-time in an academic program at the high school or post-secondary level within Canada for at least four years, and all of your instruction was in English.
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