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Program Costs

Complete the BS in Software Engineering at our Temecula campus in just four semesters, thanks to guaranteed class availability that ensures no delays in your educational journey. The program consists of 51 units at a rate of $545 per unit with tuition discounts available for active-duty military personnel.

Invest In Your Future: A Breakdown of Your Educational Journey's Cost

*Not all university semester fees are included in this table—see the comprehensive breakdown of Extended Learning fees. Semester tuition subtotals are based on a sample program sequence. All quoted tuition rates are based on previous academic years and are subject to change without notice.

Year One

Fall Semester 1

• CS 311: Data Structures and Algorithms (3)

  Teaches a thorough understanding of several advanced methods for implementing the abstract data types and the time used by each method. Includes abstract data types such as dictionary, priority queues, matrices, balanced trees, graphs, and relations, as well as, foundation of recursive algorithms, complexity analysis, complexity classes, sorting and searching, computability and undecidability, problem-solving strategies, and heuristic approaches. 

  Units: 3

• SE 370: Intro to Software Engineering (3)

  Introduces software engineering fundamentals including software development lifecycle, process models, object-oriented methodologies, ethical and professional responsibilities. Covers project management activities such as proposal writing, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, and development activities such as problem domain analysis, requirements engineering, software design, implementation and testing. Establishes semester-long working teams, collaborating on project management activities and development activities to construct mid-sized software products. Produces three project deliverables: Software Requirements Specification Document, Software Design Specification Document, and system executable. 

  Units: 3

• SE 451: Software Requirements and Design (3)

  ntroduces concepts, methods, and principles of software requirements engineering. Includes requirements elicitation, requirements specification, functional and non-functional requirements, requirements validation and verification, risk management, prototyping techniques, and security considerations in requirements analysis. Also covers software modeling techniques, such as goal model, risk model, agent model, and software design model. Establishes semester-long work groups collaborating on the early-stage development of a software system with final deliverables such as requirements specification and high-level system design.

  Units: 3

• CS 331: Computer Architecture (3)

  A study of the functional organization and sequential operation of digital computers. The major components of a computer will be discussed. Introduction to machine instruction architecture and design. The study of the internal operations during program execution. Several computer architectures will be studied.

  Units: 3

Spring Semester 1

• SE 461: Software Testing and Quality (3)

  Introduces concepts, methods, and practice of determining whether a software product conforms to its specification and intended use. Teaches verification and validation theories and techniques to design software test cases, including structural coverage, data flow coverage, logic testing, input-space partitioning, and mutation testing. Also covers software reliability, software quality assurance methods, unit level and system level testing, test-driven development, software testing frameworks and tools widely used in industry, and security-related quality assurance processes and techniques.

  Units: 3

• SE 471: Software Architecture (3)

  Introduces software architectural principles, UML model representations, and widely accepted design patterns in the software industry. Covers creational, partitioning, structural, and behavioral design patterns, as well as the SOLID principles. Learning these design patterns and principles will help students recognize the wide spectrum of software reuse techniques, justify design alternatives, and develop large-scale software systems more effectively. Provides experience in translating software designs into code and reverse-engineering code into designs.

  Units: 3

• CS 351: Programming Languages (3)

  Important features and concerns of implementation design on programming languages in common use today will be studied and analyzed. Includes data and control structures, run-time storage management, context-free grammars, language translation systems, programming paradigms, and distributed and parallel programming constructs.

  Units: 3

• CS 433: Operating Systems (3)

  Operating system design and implementation, process coordination and scheduling, deadlocks, interface devices, memory and device management, networks and security, distributed and real-time systems.

  Units: 3

Year Two

• CS 435: Embedded Systems (3)

  Introduction to the high-level abstract modeling concepts and the lower-level fundamental programming aspects of real-time embedded systems development. The primary focus is in the design, development and validation of microprocessor-based real-time embedded systems. Course topics will include real-time operating system design, real-time scheduling theory, general-purpose microprocessors, common bus architectures, memory management, device driver development, interrupts, general purpose peripherals: such as timers and counters, I/O subsystems along with some embedded system design problems and engineering issues.

  Units: 3

• SE 481: Software Project Planning and Management (3)

  Introduces major issues and techniques of software project management, including project feasibility analysis, scope management, team building, stakeholder management, project planning and scheduling, directing and control, cost and resource estimation, configuration management, software measurements, quality assurance, software change management, and risk management. Also covers professional issues, including career planning, lifelong learning, software engineering ethics, and the licensing and certification of software professionals.

  Units: 3

• SE 490: Capstone I (3)

  Provides cybersecurity majors with culminating experience emphasizing integration of knowledge acquired in previous courses. Applies the students’ understanding of security principles, methodologies, technical skills as well as problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills into a real-world project. Requires projects on performing security analysis of systems, networks, software and services, as well as devising and implementing security solutions to satisfy different requirements.

  Units: 3

• CS 443: Database (3)

  Studies concepts and structures necessary to design and implement database management systems. Includes concepts of Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD), Normalization of the database, and developing database using Structured Query Language (SQL). Uses relational data models to teach file organization, index organization, hashing, data integrity and data security, reliability, data description and query languages. Also covers introduction to No-SQL database.

  Units: 3

Spring Semester 2

• PHIL 348: Ethics in Engineering (CC & DEg) (3)

  Survey of ethical issues commonly encountered by engineers. Explores professional ethics of engineering, roles and responsibilities of engineers, and social impact of engineering.

  Units: 3

• CS 446: Cloud Computing (3)

  Introduction to fundamental technologies that enable cloud computing, such as software defined architectures, virtualization, and containers. Includes web middleware technologies and different levels of cloud services. Students will gain hands-on experience through developing new cloud services based on public cloud infrastructures.

  Units: 3

• SE 491: Capstone II (3)

  Continues capstone project from . Collaborates on team-based projects with realistic constraints from clients. Continues exercising the incremental software development process, periodically conducting project and code reviews and frequently collecting feedback from stakeholders. Provides hands-on experience in managing projects, making team decisions, documenting design artifacts, applying modern construction technologies, as well as presenting and demonstrating project progress to stakeholders. 

  Units: 3

• GE: DD & DEu
  Units: 3
• MATH 464: Numerical Analysis and Computing (3)

  Computer arithmetic, solution of a single algebraic equation, interpolating polynomials, numerical integration, error analysis, and computational effort of numerical algorithms. Combines theoretical ideas with hands-on laboratory experience.

  Units: 3