Colleges and Universities offering Diploma in Software Engineering in Kenya.

Colleges and Universities offering Diploma in Software Engineering.

Diploma in Software Engineering. Software engineering is the study and application of engineering to the design, development,  and maintenance of software.

1.Nairobi Institute of Business Studies, Nairobi: Diploma in Software Engineering.

Exam Body

city & guilds

Course Duration

1 Year

Entry Requirement

D plain & above

Course structure

Semester one

-Maintaining ICT equipment & Systems

-Digital Electronics II

-Computer Applications

-Designing & Creating Multipage ( Web Design)

Semester two

-Electronic SystemsDiploma in Software Engineering

-Creating Designs & Test Software Components

-Install Configure & Test ICT Networks

-Customer Support Provision II

Semester three

-Testing ICT Systems

-Create Software using Visual Basic

-Install & Configure ICT Equipment & Operating Systems

2.Kenya Institute of Software Engineering, Thika: Diploma in Software Engineering.

Course Duration

18 months

Prerequisite: C or Any ICT related Field
Intakes: JAN, APRIL-MAY, JULY ,SEPT-OCT
Fee Amount: Kes 16500/- per semester

Career Objectives.

-Self Employed/Free-Lancer Developer
-In-house Developer in a Company
-Freeware/Shareware Developer
-Software Engineer/Innovator/Scientist
-Employement within a Software Development Company

Course Outline

– Prerequisite Pass JAVA01
– Algorithm and Data Structures II
– Planning and Documentation II
– Persistence-Files, Xml Transformations
– Database Programming –MYSQL, ODBC
– Software Testing, and JUnit and Ant
– IDES-Eclipse and Net Beans
– Network-Socket Programming, Http, SMS Programming
– Web-(Introduction, Jsp, Jstl , Services), EE [Maven, Hibernate].

3.Africa College of Aviation and Management, Nairobi:

Diploma in Software Engineering & Web Designing

Duration 12 Months

Exam body City & Guilds

4.College of Advanced Technology, Nairobi.