This programme is aimed at training leading technical experts, qualified software developers and architects, as well as quality assurance managers who oversee software and its development processes. Demand for such professionals comes from the information and communication industry, such as opening IT technology parks, rapid growth in offshore and outsourced programming, digitalization of public services, and the needs of private business.

This programme was designed to educate and train programmers, system analysts and system architects. Graduates are highly employable in the industrial production of software for information and computer systems for a wide range of uses.The curriculum places particular emphasis on projects: students take part in international seminars organized with the support of major software corporation, SAP, as well as faculty business partners, which include major international and Russian IT companies.

This programme trains IT personnel who are skilled in technologies for the development of a wide range of software and technologies for managing the life cycle of information systems to solve management problems, as well as the mathematical methods which underlie software development. Software engineering is the industrial production of software and its components for an array of information and computing systems.