Free Solid Edge Resources for Students. With Solid Edge, students have access to a free version of the same easy-to-use software suite used by professionals. In addition to free software, we provide tutorials, webinars, online courses and certification to help you develop.
Free Intel® Software Development Tools for:
- Mathcad Student Downloads. PTC Mathcad is the industry’s standard for engineering calculation software, enabling you to solve your most complex problems, and share your calculations with colleagues. To prepare students for the work- force, PTC Academic is committed to providing access to Mathcad for free.
- Free Tools for COVID-19 Researchers. Development Tools for COVID-19 Research. Request no-cost access to C and Fortran compilers, performance libraries, and more. Free Tools for Students. Intel supports the next generation of scientists and engineers by ensuring that students have free access to the select Intel® Software Development Products.
Intel® Performance Libraries
Free performance libraries help create better, more reliable, and faster software applications.
COVID-19 Researchers
For researchers to accelerate discoveries and technology development.
Student
For current students at degree-granting institutions.
Educator
For instructors to use in teaching curriculum.
Open Source Contributor
For developers actively contributing to open source projects.
Intel® oneAPI Toolkits(Beta)
Try out the Beta release of Intel oneAPI—a new generation of cross-architecture programming tools spanning CPU, GPU, and FPGA programming. Intel oneAPI includes the new Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) language plus libraries and analysis tools. Try it on the Intel® DevCloud, or read more about oneAPI and then download it.
Free Tools for COVID-19 Researchers
Request no-cost access to C++ and Fortran compilers, performance libraries, and more.
Free Tools for Students
Intel supports the next generation of scientists and engineers by ensuring that students have free access to the select Intel® Software Development Products. All products include user forum support.
Qualifications
- Full or part-time matriculated students that are currently enrolled at a degree-granting higher education institution and have a school email address.
- Students cannot be paid and/or compensated for software development. The products below are licensed to students for personal use to support their education, under the terms of the Non-Commercial License.
Free Software
Intel® Parallel Studio XE
Simplify the creation and modernization of code with the latest techniques in vectorization, multithreading, multinode, and memory optimization.
Intel® Distribution for Python*
Access accelerated Python packages such as NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn*, and easy access to Conda*, Numba*, Cython, and pyDAAL.
Intel® System Studio
Delivers tools and libraries to build, perform system-wide debug and trace, optimize, and analyze code on Intel® architecture.
Free Tools for Classroom Educators
Intel provides educators Intel® Software Development Products at no cost to help teach students new skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The program includes user forum support.
For more information, see the FAQ.
Qualifications
- Professors and educators at degree-granting institutions of higher education.
- Educators must provide an academic institution email address to qualify for this program.
- Intel® Software Development Products can only be used in a classroom setting to assist in teaching.
Free Software
Intel® Parallel Studio XE
Includes high-performance compilers, libraries, parallel models, a threading and vectorization advisor, Intel® Vtune™ Profiler for performance optimization, a memory and threading debugger, and more.
Intel® Distribution for Python*
Access accelerated Python packages such as NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn*, and easy access to Conda*, Numba*, Cython, and pyDAAL.
Intel® System Studio
Delivers tools and libraries to build, perform system-wide debug and trace, optimize, and analyze code on Intel® architecture.
Free Tools for Open Source Contributors
Intel provides select Intel® Software Development Products at no cost to qualified open source contributors who are working on open source projects compliant with the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
Qualifications
- Actively contribute to an open source project, such as GitHub*
- Agree to terms and conditions of the Intel Non-Commercial License
Free Software
Intel® Parallel Studio XE
Simplify the creation and modernization of code with the latest techniques in vectorization, multithreading, multinode, and memory optimization.
Intel® Parallel Studio XE Professional Edition
Confidently optimize software for modern hardware with a combination of industry-leading compilers, numerical libraries, parallel models, performance profilers, and code analyzers.
Additional Free Software and Code Samples
Other Licensing Agreements
Adobe Software
Faculty and Staff are able to install the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application on their personally-owned computers and sign in using their RIT computer account.
Apple Software
Apple software for personally-owned computers can be purchased through the RIT Digital Den.
AutoDesk ACES Subscription Agreement
Departments and faculty can use AutoDesk software products, including AutoCAD for Academic use for free. For more information contact the ITS Service Desk. Students can download 13 month versions of the software at the Autodesk Student Community. To sign up, visit http://students.autodesk.com.
ESRI
ESRI designs and develops the worlds leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. Its leading product - ArcGIS - is a powerful tool that can be used to analyze a wide variety of data against geographic information. Various colleges at RIT participate in the cost sharing of the license for RIT. If you are interested in joining or already participate and need access to the software, contact ITS. For more information about ESRI, refer to http://www.esri.com/.
MapleSoft Site License Agreement
Departments can pay a low cost annual subscription fee for access to Maple. Maple is an advanced mathematical application for use on RIT-owned faculty and staff computers. For more information please contact the School of Mathematical Sciences. For instructions on installing this software (COS faculty/staff), please click here.
MATLAB
MATLAB is a programming platform used to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. RIT has a licensing agreement with MathWorks to provide faculty, staff and students with access to many products in the MATLAB suite. The software is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. RIT's contract covers a selection of Standard and Additional Toolboxes.
Faculty, Staff, and Students can install MATLAB on their personally owned computers if their homebase is the Rochester NY campus. If you are at a global campus, you are not allowed to use this license at this time.
For more information about MathWorks, refer to http://www.mathworks.com/.
Microsoft CAMPUS Licensing Agreement
CAMPUS is a three year licensing agreement that RIT has secured with Microsoft to provide Faculty and Staff the ability to keep Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office up do date on both their work and home computers. This agreement applies only to MS Windows and MS Office. Other software, such as Microsoft Windows Server, is covered by the SELECT agreement described below.
Click here for more information about CAMPUS.
Microsoft SELECT Licensing Agreement
SELECT is a three year volume purchasing agreement that allows RIT to purchase a number of different Microsoft software titles at a substantial discount from standard retail or other special academic pricing, and also allows licenses and media to be purchased separately.
NOTE: The SELECT agreeement does not allow unlimited installation or concurrent use of any software. All licenses granted under SELECT are for a specific number of installations on specific machines, and must be paid for with an RIT Purchase Order.
Click here for more information about SELECT.
Minitab Site Agreement
Several departments are sharing a campus license for Minitab and Minitab Express to be used on RIT-owned computers. Minitab is a Windows-only application where as Minitab Express is available for Windows and Mac. To get Minitab or Minitab Express for your RIT Owned computer, please contact your Systems Administrator. Minitab and Minitab Express are also available for use by all current students and faculty on their personal computer for academic purposes. For more information and to download the software, visit our Minitab download page (student or faculty login required).
SAS
ITS maintains an annual academic subscription site license for SAS for Windows. SAS brings you a complete suite of products for data access, data management, data analysis and data presentation. The license provides the opportunity for RIT faculty, staff and registered students to subscribe to a suite of SAS products. Go to the SAS page for more information.
Transcription Software For Mac Free
SentinelOne
Free Software For Students Mac Version
ITS provides SentinelOne Endpoint Security Software for Windows & Mac computers. The software is automatically installed and configured on RIT-owned computers. For Personal devices, please reference our recommendations here.