NMHU starting new degree program

LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas is offering new bachelor's and master's degrees in software development.

The program begins this fall.

The dean of the School of Business at the northern New Mexico school, Margaret Young, says students will graduate with significant hands-on experience in software development.

Management information systems professor David West says students would be ready to enter the work force at a journeyman software developer level rather than the entry level.

He says they will have work experience and a portfolio of successful projects.

Students will work as paid apprentice software developers with professional master software developers who will act as mentors.

Young says the School of Business has done market studies showing a demand for a software development degree program.