UChicago has partnered with a range of vendors to provide students with free or reduced-cost academic and productivity software and tools. A list of these agreements is provided in the table below.
If there's a software package you think might be of common interest, but you don't see it listed here, please suggest it by contacting licensing@uchicago.edu.
Note: Updated Nov 2024
| Software | Description | Eligibility | How to Purchase |
| Adobe Creative Cloud |
20+ apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. |
Students | Purchase directly at Adobe. |
| Allinea DDT | Allinea DDT parallel debugger | Researchers and Students | To inquire about specific software installations at RCC, please contact help@rcc.uchicago.edu. |
| Autodesk Software | Design and Engineering software; Autocad, Inventor, Maya, and others |
Faculty, students, and staff |
Purchase not required; Create AutoDesk account using your Uchicago.edu email (i.e., CNetID@uchicago.edu). |
| CrowdStrike Falcon | Antivirus tools | Faculty, students, and staff | Refer to this Antivirus Knowledge Article for more information. |
| Endnote | Manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles | Faculty, students, and staff | Purchase directly at OnTheHub. |
| Intel Composer XE | Intel Fortran Compiler, C/C++ Compiler, Math Kernel Library, Threading Building Blocks, and Intel MPI | Researchers and students | To inquire about specific software installations at RCC, please contact help@rcc.uchicago.edu. |
| Mathematica | Statistics and visualization software | Faculty, students, and staff | Purchase not required. Get Mathematica. |
| MATLAB | Technical computing software for engineers and scientists in government, industry, and education | Students | No purchase is required. Get MATLAB |
| Microsoft | Windows 10 and 11 upgrade | Students | No purchase is required for a Windows upgrade. Download directly from Azure for Students |
| Microsoft 365 | Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word | Students | No purchase is required for Microsoft 365. |
| Minitab | Statistical and process management software |
Faculty and students Personally-owned computers |
Purchase directly at OnTheHub. |
| NVivo | Analyzes data using search, query, and visualization tools | Statistical and process management software
Faculty and students Personally-owned computers |
Purchase directly at Lumivero. |
| Overleaf | Cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing, and publishing scientific documents | Faculty, students, and staff | Refer to the Overleaf knowledge article for more information and the LaTeX Guide. |
| Parallels Desktop for Mac | Virtualization for desktops | Students (for personally-owned equipment) | Purchase directly at OnTheHub. |
| PGI Accelerator with OpenACC | Portland Group Fortran, C, and C++ compilers | Researchers and Students | To inquire about specific software installations at RCC, please contact help@rcc.uchicago.edu. |
| Qualtrics |
Cloud-based survey platform |
Faculty, students, and staff | Refer to this Qualtrics Article for more information. |
| SPSS | Analytical software, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting, and deployment |
Faculty and students Personally-owned computers |
Purchase directly at OnTheHub. |
| Stata SE | Statistics and visualization software | Students (for personally-owned equipment) |
IT Services has three computer labs and vLab that have Stata accessible within the lab and also remotely. |
| Tableau | Provide tools to understand and visualize large data sets | Faculty, students, and staff | Purchase not required. Submit a Student Request Form to the vendor. |
| Think-cell | Microsoft 365 Add-in | Faculty, students, and staff | Purchase not required. Download directly at Academic Page. |
**A limited site license for Adobe Creative Cloud has been purchased for Chicago Booth students for the 2024 - 2025 Academic Year. All Chicago Booth students have access to this license while they are Chicago Booth students. Chicago Booth students can access their licenses by logging into Adobe with an Adobe ID and password. Use your ChicagoBooth email address as the Adobe ID. Each student can install the desktop apps on multiple devices but only two devices can be active at a time (exceptions apply for Hong Kong students).
When logging in, if you see trial versions only, sign out of your account, close your browser, and then wait a few minutes before trying to log in again. Contact the Chicago Booth Help Desk at helpdesk@chicagobooth.edu for installation issues.
** The Qualtrics platform will not allow uchicago.edu emails to be entered in the "From" field of email distributions. An invalid domain error will show if this is attempted. If you have surveys with email distributions scheduled after January 31st, we recommend that you update your "From" field with "noreply@qemailserver.com" for those distributions to avoid any errors. For additional questions, please contact institutional-analysis@lists.uchicago.edu.