Missouri S&T's computer science program gives a unified software engineering experience over the entire course of a student's education at Missouri S&T. Students will learn software project management in its many roles, from overall project management and process improvement to the management of individual lifecycle components, including software deployment and evolution.

Missouri S&T's Software Engineering research program specializes in Software Quality, Software Testing, Hardware/Software co-design, and Formal Methods of Software Specification and Verification, Automated Software Engineering, and Algorithm Theory.