Academic versions of software

RobD
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:29:00 +0000

There are HUGE discounts on software via campus stores; when I was a grad student I bought one of of the Adobe suites (including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.) for $300 when it was retailing for $1200+.

I haven’t looked into UA’s prices yet (since D will be getting the NMF laptop & I’m figuring it will be loaded with whatever software she needs) but prices vary from school to school based on contracts with the various software vendors. For example, Vanderbilt just announced last week that they’d negotiated a new contract & Microsoft products would be free to students and faculty/staff could get a home license for $9.95. That’s exceptionally low; UTK offered the Microsoft Office package for students at $59.99.