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Microsoft Qualified Educational User eligibility
If your organization meets our criteria for “Qualified Educational Users,” it is eligible to acquire Microsoft Academic Edition (AE) products through the volume license programs indicated.
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An accredited institution organized operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students.
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| A public or private K-12 vocational school, correspondence school, junior college, college, university, or scientific or technical school |
- Institutionally accredited by an accrediting agency nationally recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
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| Public K-12 institution |
- Recognized or approved by the Department of Education of the state in which it is located
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| A preschool |
- An early childhood program incorporated for the purpose of providing educational services to children between two and five years of age, and which serves minimum of ten such children;
- and has been in operation for at least one year.
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| District, regional, and state administrative offices |
Organized and operated for the administration of public educational institutions |
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| Administrative entities |
Organized and operated exclusively for the administration of private educational institutions. |
| Other state or local government entities |
Nearly all activities consist of administrative support, of a nature that advances academic learning, for public educational institutions. |
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| Faculty and staff |
Works full- or part-time at qualifying educational institutions. |
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| Students |
Enrolled full- or part-time students at qualified educational institutions. |
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| Library |
- Primarily provides general library services without charge to all residents of a given community, district or region;
- Supported by public or private funds;
- Makes its basic collections and basic services available to the population of its legal service area without charges to individual users, but may impose charges on users outside its legal service area;
- And may or may not provide products and services, beyond its basic services, to the public at large with or without individual charges.
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| Institution or user |
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| Public or private agency or institution |
- Organized on a permanent basis for essentially education or aesthetic purposes;
- utilize a professional staff;
- and own or utilize tangible objects, care for them and exhibit them to the public on a regular basis.
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| A home-schooling program which provides K-12 education to a student or students with written proof that it: |
- Belongs to a nationally recognized home-schooling organization;
- or is expressly recognized by a local school district as an acceptable alternative to an accredited or state-recognized/approved educational institution.
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Examples of entities not eligible for academic pricing:
- Non-accredited schools
- Training centers
- Non-United States residents or educational facilities
- Churches
- Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, and Research Laboratories that do not meet the qualifications above
- Non-profit/charitable organizations that do not meet the qualifications above
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