The School of Software was founded in April 2009 according to requirements and standards about the trial running of National Demonstrative Software Schools by the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission. The school began to enrol undergraduates in 2009, and more than 1170 students have graduated till now.

Abide by the university motto Pursuing Virtue and Knowledge, Seeking Truth and Innovation, School of Software always upholds the triad of teaching idea: moral-first, ability-oriented, innovation-promoted. In accordance with the university’s characteristics of talents cultivation which are deep engineering basis, solid style of work and strong innovation ability, the school pays close attention to teaching quality and learns from the experience abroad, aiming to cultivate leading talents who possess good software development capability, project management competence, creative imagination, team spirit, engineering qualities and international vision. In terms of discipline, School of Software and School of Computer and Information Engineering jointly build software engineering, computer science and technology first-level doctorate license and post-doctoral mobile station. Software engineering has strong discipline support.

Through flexible running mechanism, the school attracts talented people widely and has formed a teaching team composed of ful...