The school of software engineering of Tongji University was founded in 2002. It was established under the approval of the Ministry of Education of China and the former State Planning Commission, as a national model school in software engineering. Zhou Xingming, one of the academicians in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the chief designer of the system for the China’s first mainframe --Milky Way, assumes the dean of the school.
The school is located in Jiading Campus of Tongji University, which covers approximately 8400 square meters, with an enrollment of 2900 students of all degrees. It provides various majors, including enterprise computing and software technology, service engineering (mainframe technology), software engineering and projects management, image processing and graphics, and new media technology science.