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This article focuses on professors' perspective of Rice university, Texas, on software engineering licensing. Professors including the author were worried that licensing might have exactly the opposite of the desired effect. First, it is unclear that licensing software engineers will have any positive impact on the quality of software because most software will continue to be developed by companies. One potential downside of licensing is to limit consulting on software to holders of licensing. If this were to happen, most of the leading researchers in advanced software development would be precluded from providing sorely needed expertise on leading-edge software strategies to companies in states where licensing is required. This could result in software to get lower, rather than higher, in quality. According to author, accreditation in software engineering is particularly problematic because of the impact it might have on the discipline of computer science, his motivation for introducing licensing of software engineering is to offer degree programs entitled "Software Engineering." Good software development must involve an understanding not only of programming practice but also of the theory underlying computer science and deep ideas in computer architecture and applications. Universities, both within Texas and nationally, have continued to strive toward improvements in the computer science curriculum focused on software development.