Professional Master

Professional Master in Software Engineering

Computer Science & AI
Location
On-Campus & Online
Duration
2.5 - 4 Years

Over the last few years, Egypt witnessed a significant growth in its communication and information technology industry in general and software development in particular. Different studies and indicators place Egypt among the countries with the highest potential growth in these sectors, and foresee that the software industry could become one of the main contributors in Egypt's economy in the decades to come.

Credit Hours
.5 - 4 Years
Starts

Starts

Sep, 2026

Credential

Credential

Egyptian Supreme
Council of Universities

Location

Location

On-Campus
& Online

Language

Language

English
(Arabic Support)

Program overview

Over the last few years, Egypt witnessed a significant growth in its communication and information technology industry in general and software development in particular.
Different studies and indicators place Egypt among the countries with the highest potential growth in these sectors, and foresee that the software industry could become one of the main contributors in Egypt's economy in the decades to come.
One of the challenges however, is the number of qualified technical professionals that would lead this effort and build the base for this promising industry.
There is a shortage of well-formed software architects, designers, team leaders, and project managers with the skills needed to really produce the scale and quality of software products that would place Egypt on the world's map in software development.
It was therefore a strong motive for Nile University with its vision of "growing leaders of the technology driven high-growth economy" to offer a graduate program specialized in fulfilling this need and help raise the standards of the Egyptian software industry to become competitive in the global market.
The program aims at producing technically astute graduates with solid managerial, leadership, and communications skills, prepared for future roles as leaders in the software industry.

The set of skills that Professional Masters in Software Engineering students will acquire are the following:

Have a solid understanding of the software development life cycle and the concepts of operation of software projects.

Possess the knowledge and practice of managing software development.

Be able to utilize the methodologies of hardware, software integration, and networking.

Master the principles of requirements management, analysis modeling, software architecture design, testing and verification, and quality assurance.

Who should apply?

Software professionals seeking deeper knowledge in software engineering.

Advanced students typically from computer science or computer engineering backgrounds.

Courses

What Will You Learn

The course provides the necessary knowledge and skills to lead a software project team, understand the software process, time and cost estimates, and the relationship of software development to overall product engineering. Topics include life cycle models, requirements definition, configuration control, environments, planning, scheduling, execution, monitoring, evaluation, refinement, quality assurance as well as team building, organization and motivation, and legal issues involved in liability, warranty, patentability, and copyright. Students participate in group projects and case studies.

Program Director

Dr. Sahar Fawzy

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Dr. Sahar Fawzy

Dr. Sahar Fawzy

Program Director

Dr. Sahar Fawzy

Dr. Sahar is a full Professor in Information Technology and Computer Science school at Nile University (NU) and M.Sc. Information Security director. She received here Ph.D., Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University. After completing her Ph.D. in speech synthesis, she continued her speech processing research for helping children/adults with speaking/hearing difficulties.
She joined Virtual Dental Clinic project in conjunction with the Dental school, Cairo University. Several M.Sc.s and Ph.D.s were awarded through this collaboration.
She joined research projects with Department of Immunology, Egyptian Armed Forces Central Labs and Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kasr ElAini to study the Egyptian Genetic Profile.
She shared in organizing Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conferences. Prof Sahar supervised about 20 M.Sc.s and Ph.D.s, and published over 30 journal and conference research papers. She discussed several masters and Ph.D.s thesis and reviewed several research articles for international journals and conferences.
108,000 EGP
Application Fees (Non Refundable)
1,500 EGP
Scholarships
Up to 30% - Based on performace interview