华东师范大学软件学院成立于2002年1月，是国家首批35所示范性软件学院之一，也是全国师范院校中唯一获准成立的示范性软件学院。中国科学院院士何积丰教授任院长，周巢尘院士任名誉院长。
学院秉承“以学生为中心、以市场为导向、以创新求发展”的办学理念，坚持走办学国际化、运作市场化、产学研一体化的特色之路，培养高层次、实用型、复合型、国际化软件人才。
学院下设“三系三所”即软件工程、嵌入式系统、数字娱乐三个系和计算机理论研究所、海量计算研究所、嵌入式系统研究所，拥有上海市“高可信计算”重点实验室和教育部“软硬件协同设计技术与应用”工程研究中心等研究机构；“计算机软件与理论”为上海市重点学科；学校支持软件学院进行“高可信计算985科技创新平台”建设。学院现有本科生737名，研究生875名，毕业生深受社会青睐，就业率与薪资水平名列学校前茅。
经国家外国专家局批准，国家软件人才国际培训基地(上海)、国家对日软件人才培训基地也均在该院落户。
英文简介：East China Normal University Software School was established in January of 2002 as one of the first 35 pilot software schools in the country, and is the only one among all normal universities in China. Professor He Jifeng, Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, is the dean of the School. The School also has Academician Zhou Chaochen to be the Honorary Dean.
The mission of the School is “student centered, market oriented, innovation dependent”. In order to cultivate practical, multidisciplinary and creative software elites, the school keeps on running under the system of international cooperation, market oriented and integration of production, education and research.
The School has three departments, Software Engineering Department, Embedded System Department and Digital Entertainment Department. It also has three research institutes, Theoretical Computing Institute, Massive Computing Institute and Embedded System Institute. There are several key research laboratories, including Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing and Hardware/Software Co-design Engineering Research Centre (Ministry of Education). Computer Software and Theory has become the Shanghai leading academic discipline. The University is running the 985 platform of high dependability computing at the school. The School currently has 737 Undergraduate students, 875 Postgraduate students, who are highly praised by society. The employment rate and the salary are at the top level in the school.
Through the approval of State Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs (BFEA), the National Training Base (Shanghai) for international Software talents, and the National Training Base (Shanghai) for Software talents towards Japanese market have also settled down at the School.
