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Eligibility Chart
Frequently Asked Questions
Additional Resources

Eligibility Chart

Product	License Type
Product	Student	Personal Faculty/Staff	University
MATLAB TAH Academic	¹	²	³
MATLAB TAH Classroom	⁴	⁵	⁶
Notes:
1.	Student licenses can only be purchased using student funds. The purchased license can only be installed on and used on student owned or leased computers by the student that purchased the license. All student licenses are for student personal usage and we must charge Sales Tax for personally owned licenses. Students whose primary campus is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except when enrolled in and attending classes in North America.
2.	Faculty and Staff are NOT eligible to purchase, install or use the MATLAB TAH Academic Annual License for personal use. You may use this software for Academic Use work related purposes provided you purchase the University license type. See Note 3. Faculty and Staff whose primary employment location is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except during employment and working in North America.
3.	Faculty and Staff are eligible to purchase, install and use this software on computers owned or leased by the University of Utah and/or personally owned or leased computers provided they only use the software for Academic Use work purposes. Faculty and Staff whose primary employment location is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except during employment and working in North America.
4.	Students are NOT eligible to purchase, install or use the MATLAB TAH Classroom Annual License.
5.	Faculty and Staff are NOT eligible to purchase, install or use the MATLAB TAH Classroom Annual License for personal use.
6.	Faculty and Staff are eligible to purchase, install and use this software on computers owned or leased by the University of Utah provided they only use the software for Academic Use purposes and are further restricted to use in connection with on-campus computing facilities that are used solely in support of classroom instruction of students. Research use is NOT permitted. Licensed Users of the Classroom License may also include visiting instructors and contractors solely for the purpose of classroom instruction or preparation for classroom instruction. The MATLAB TAH Classroom license may NOT be installed on personally owned or leased computers. Faculty and Staff whose primary employment location is the University of Utah Asia Campus are not eligible to purchase, install or use this software except during employment and working in North America.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The university purchased the MATLAB Total Academic Headcount (TAH) campus-wide site license. This is not a perpetual license, this is an annual subscription term license which must be renewed annually to continue using the software covered under this license.

A license can be purchased here.

The terms and conditions can be found here.

Available to all faculty, researchers, and students everywhere: at home and classroom, in lab and field research, and while traveling for academic and educational use.
Covers all on-campus computing facilities, labs, classrooms, and research centers, as well as all faculty-owned and student-owned personal computers.
MATLAB Online provides access from a web browser.
Standard suite includes MATLAB, Simulink, and 49 additional MathWorks products. Expandable with additional add-on “Child License” products.
Annual expense provides more predictable cost model for budget planning.
One license eases license management and ensures software license compliance through central administration. Easily integrates into bring your own device (BYOD) programs.
Pricing is proportional to the size of the student body and number of products licensed, which provides cost efficiencies per user.

Download licensed products and updates
Access free tutorials at MATLAB Academy
Manage license using the License Center
Obtain technical support for faculty and researchers
View current and archived documentation
Obtain access to MATLAB prerelease and beta versions
Download free hardware support packages for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Lego, and more
Use MATLAB Mobile on iPhone, iPad, or Android device
Use MATLAB Drive to synchronize MATLAB files between computers, MATLAB Mobile, and MATLAB Online

MATLAB
Simulink
Bioinformatics Toolbox
Communications Toolbox
Computer Vision Toolbox
Control System Toolbox
Curve Fitting Toolbox
Data Acquisition Toolbox
Database Toolbox
Deep Learning Toolbox
DSP System Toolbox
Econometrics Toolbox
Embedded Coder
Financial Toolbox
Fixed-Point Designer
Fuzzy Logic Toolbox
Global Optimization Toolbox
Image Acquisition Toolbox
Image Processing Toolbox
Instrument Control Toolbox
Mapping Toolbox
MATLAB Coder
MATLAB Compiler
MATLAB Compiler SDK
MATLAB Parallel Server - unlimited workers (for cluster use only)
MATLAB Report Generator
Model Predictive Control Toolbox

Toolboxes are subject to change.

The following products are NOT included in our MATLAB TAH site license agreement:

To add products not included in the campus agreement to your license, contact:

Peter Sheridan
Senior Account Manager
Education Group
Email: peter.sheridan@mathworks.com
Direct: 1-508-647-7176

Information about individual products is available on the MathWorks Products & Services web page .

The software may ONLY be used for teaching, learning and non-commercial research Academic Use purposes. For Non-Academic or Commercial Use purposes, please contact MathWorks to obtain a different license.

No. All software obtained and covered under the TAH agreement may NOT be used for University or Hospital administrative or operational purposes.

All University of Utah students, staff and faculty are eligible to purchase, install and use the software provided they use the software only for Academic Use purposes.

Asia campus students, staff and faculty are NOT eligible to purchase, install or use this software under this license agreement.

There are multiple benefits:

access to Concurrent Use licenses with unlimited seats. No more users being denied access because the department ran out of seats on the license. NOTE: Concurrent Use licenses come with unlimited seats. Each university department will be responsible for monitoring their maximum simultaneous usage and then purchase the required amount of Concurrent Use licenses accordingly.
besides getting MATLAB, you also can have Simulink and up to 49 products at no additional cost.
access to the most recent versions of all software and access to old versions of the software, if needed.
easy one product purchase through the OSL webstore at one set price regardless of purchase quantity. No individual product purchases and no tiered pricing.
ability to purchase a Classroom license at any quantity. MathWorks has a minimum order quantity requirement of 10 or more, per product.
students will have access to the same software as classrooms and labs across campus at a significantly reduced price.

Please go to the vendor website to review the System Requirements prior to purchasing this product:

Please Note: OSL doesn’t provide downloads for the MATLAB products. The software is provided by MathWorks during activation/installation process.

To obtain and activate the software, follow these instructions:

Single User License

Students
University

Concurrent User & Classroom License

First, please read the important process information found here.

Then proceed to the detailed instructions found here.

Specifically, you must open the MATLAB installer and on Step 7: Specify Products to Install, where you will see the additional product(s) that are available to install. You must then select the additional product(s) that you want to install and then complete the installation process.

No. Non-Academic and Commercial use of MathWorks products is not covered by our TAH license, so if you are using a non-Academic or Commercial use license, please continue to do so and maintain these licenses separately.

A Single User license obtained by you, or on your behalf, is assigned to the person and entitles that person to use MATLAB on any university owned or leased computers and any personally owned or leased computers.

Yes, but you are limited to no more than two (2) computers simultaneously.

No. You may continue to use and manage you license separately from this agreement. Your software should continue to operate without interruption. However, you will not have access to the upgrades, updates, products, services or Simulink and any of the 49 products that are provided under the TAH license agreement.

Yes, but it is not recommended by both OSL and MathWorks because the older perpetual license may no longer work if you have made any type of upgrades or updates to your computer or computer operating system since the transition to the TAH license.

If you agreed to suspend a license, then all toolboxes not covered by the TAH agreement will become ‘child’ licenses of the TAH. Those toolboxes will be maintained separately from the TAH license.

The license disappears from the License Center and if validation is enabled they will get the 'Deactivation Required' message below the next time they validate, which would be sometime within 30 days.

If validation is turned off they will not receive a message and they will continue to use MATLAB if the original license was a perpetual license.
With network licenses they will not receive a message but the license will still disappear from the license center.
If the deactivate button is pressed MATLAB will be deactivated and they will be unable to open MATLAB until it’s reactivated. If they click cancel they will be able to continue using MATLAB.
Once a license is suspended, Software Maintenance Service (SMS) is no longer required while the license is in storage.

To continue using MATLAB until you purchase the TAH license, you MUST select the Cancel button to avoid deactivation. If you select and click on the Deactivate button, MATLAB will be deactivated and you will not able to open MATLAB until it’s reactivated.

deactivation message

Follow the instructions in question 13 on how to obtain and activate the software.

Follow the instructions on the MathWorks website to Activate an Installation Online or Offline.

You have several support options:

Do a search on the MathWorks Support website
Ask a question on the MATLAB Answers website
Contact MathWorks Support
If you are still unable to find a solution, please email software@utah.edu with a description of the problem and, if possible, include a screenshot of the error. Include your order number, product name, product version and operating system.