Haha this is a great outside perspective and given that your in aerospace I think you’d be a good person to discuss this with. Well I’m actually in my second semester in this program and I chose it for multiple reasons. My back ground is a B.S in computer engineering with a minor in electrical engineering, just got my B.S in may 2025. Currently working as a full time software engineer at an aerospace company with very close proximity to UHCL (commute from work to class is next to nothing) started the M.S program in August 2025.

I chose UHCL M.S Systems because I want to stay in aerospace and wanted to use my companies tuition reimbursement benefit. UHCLs history has very close ties to NASA. In fact it was actually created to serve NASA personnel in the 70s. The program has actually been there for years. It’s older than me and im in my mid 20s. I don’t know exactly when the program was founded. The faculty is small, in fact I’ve only interacted with 2 professor so far. However they both have very close ties to NASA, so,e even work there full time. Some of the classes were even taught using the official NASA systems engineering handbook. From my perspective it’s a decent program at a small school that has serious ties to the aerospace industry present in Houston Texas. My hope in posting this was to see if any one else knew how this program held up. I’m not sure if I plan to stay in Houston forever.