The Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering and Management is designed primarily for industry practitioners who are involved in software engineering activities and who would like to enhance their formal education in software engineering and acquire the most modern development practices without completing a full master's degree. The program is also for individuals who have formal education in computing and who would like to acquire software engineering education to apply for software engineering positions.

This certificate program is primarily delivered at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, KS. Some of the courses in this certificate program may be delivered online, but the program cannot be completed entirely online. 

Admission to Graduate Studies

An applicant seeking to pursue graduate study may be admitted as either a degree-seeking or non-degree seeking student. Policies and procedures of Graduate Studies govern the process of Graduate admission. These may be found in the Graduate Studies section of the online catalog. For more information on admission to graduate programs at KU, see the policy on Admission to Graduate Study. 

Applications may be submitted at http://graduate.ku.edu/ku-graduate-application.

The following materials must be included to submit a complete application for admission:

• Official transcript from the institution where the bachelor's degree (or equivalent) was earned
• Resume
• Statement of Purpose
• 3 Letters of Recommendation

For admission to KU’s Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering Management program, applicants must have:

• An undergraduate degree in a computing or related discipline with a GPA of 2.75 or better
• For applicants with at least two years of practical work experience in IT, no GRE scores will be required. For those who would like to take the GRE exam, requirements are as follows: 146+ verbal, 155+ quantitative (mean GRE: 152 verbal, 163 quantitative). If GRE scores are submitted, they will be considered as part of the admission process.

Certificate Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
ITEC 810	Software Engineering and Management	3
ITEC 814	Software Quality Assurance	3
ITEC 818	Software Architecture	3
PFS 804	Project Management for Professionals (Students who are also enrolled in the Foundations of Project Management Graduate Certificate may substitute PMGT 816 Project Management Fundamentals I for PFS 804. )	3
PMGT 842	Project Management in an Agile Environment	3
Total Hours		15

The completion requirements of the graduate certificate in Software Engineering and Management include: (a) students must have a GPA of 3.0 or better on the required courses; (b) the minimum grade for any course to be applied toward the certificate is a grade of C; and (c) no credits may be transferred from another institution for this certificate.

Note: The completion of the graduate certificate program does not lead to automatic admission to the MSIT program, particularly if the student lacks the BS degree in computing or related discipline. However, for students who are able to gain admission to the MSIT program within three years of earning the certificate, all certificate course work completed with a grade B or higher will be recognized through a combination of the following methods.

For students admitted to the MSIT program before completion of the certificate, all certificate course work may also be applied to the degree-granting program. For students admitted to the MSIT program after completing the certificate, departments will use a combination of transfer credit and degree requirement waivers to recognize the 12 hours earned through the certificate program.  At the discretion of the degree-granting program and the Graduate Division, up to nine (9) credit hours may be transferred to the degree program. For the purposes of the MSIT program, completion of the graduate certificate in Software Engineering and Management within three years, with a grade of B or better, shall also be recognized as exceptional preparation which warrants the waiver of course work completed during the certificate program and not transferred. Please see the M.A. & M.S. Degrees and Graduate Credit policies for more information.

At the completion of this program, students will be able to: 

• Understand and apply agile software development.
• Understand and apply modeling and managing requirements.
• Understand and apply software project management.
• Understand and apply software architecture design.
• Understand and apply software quality assurance and testing