Software for Students, Faculty, and Staff

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Take advantage of discounted software applications from Northwestern IT for academic and personal use. Applications including computer security, productivity, and computation programs are offered at significant discounts or free for download.

Unless otherwise noted, all software listed is available for use by students, faculty, and staff.

  • Software for Personal Purchase by faculty and staff is marked below as (p).
  • Software for Business Use by faculty and staff is marked below as (f).
  • Software for Personal Purchase by students is marked below as (s).
  • Software for Departmental Purchase is marked below as (d).

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For instructions on purchasing software for departmental use, please consult the NU Preferred Vendor (Software) CDW-G.

Software Title Purchase Type Operating System Download/Order Download Type
Adobe Products Departmental Purchase (d)   Order  
Adobe Products Personal Purchase (p,s)   Order  
ArcGIS Pro   Win  Download .exe
Avast Departmental Purchase (d) Win XP/7/8/10 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 64 bit Download .exe
Bomgar Remote Support Assistance Departmental Purchase (d) Win Order  
Cisco Jabber Requires University phone number associated with a user NetID (f) Win Download .exe
Cisco Jabber Requires University phone number associated with a user NetID (f) Mac Download .pkg
CrashPlan Backup Client   Mac
Linux/Unix
Win		 Order  
EndNote for Mac   Mac Download .zip
EndNote for Windows   Win Download .zip
JMP Faculty/Staff (f) and Students (s) Win Vendor Site .zip
JMP Faculty/Staff (f) and Students (s) Mac Vendor Site .zip
Mathematica  

Mac

Linux/Unix

Win

 Download instructions  
Mathematica   Cloud Access instructions  
MATLAB     Read more  
Microsoft Office 365 Student (s) Mac
Win		 Download .exe
Microsoft Defender (formerly Windows Defender Personal Purchase (p,s) Win Read more  
Microsoft Titles Departmental Purchase (d)   Order  
Microsoft Titles Personal Purchase (p)   Order Faculty & Staff may purchase MS Office software using the Home Use Program.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)     Download  
Sophos    Personal Purchase (p,s) Mac    Read more  
SPSS Business Use by Faculty/Staff (f) Win    Order .zip
SAS    Business Use by Faculty/Staff (f) Linux/Win Order  
         
       

 

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