An investigation of undergraduate software engineering curriculum: Iranian universities case study

The current undergraduate software engineering curriculum in Iran was approved by MSRT in October 1998. However, software industry faces the fastest growth rate among science and technology areas. Considering that, this article aims at revising this curriculum from the viewpoint of users of its output, the managers of software industry. To achieve this goal, the courses of MSRT´s and high-ranked universities´ curricula plus nontechnical skills and potential future needed knowledge, collected from literature, were presented to the software managers, and they were asked to choose it as essential or elective course, or remove it from the curriculum. At the end, a list of essential and elective courses was presented, and it was compared with the literature.