Types of Education Licence

Types of Education Licence

Our education licences are specially designed to suit the requirements of staff and students in every qualifying organisation, university, college or school.

Recommended Licensing Programmes

For the most cost-effective purchasing options, the following licensing programmes are recommended.

Select Licence A volume licensing agreement designed to meet the needs of eligible education institutions with more than 250 desktops. Individual schools can often access Select licensing via their Local Authority.

Campus Agreement An annual licensing agreement offering Further and Higher education establishments the simplicity of counting people instead of computers.

School Agreement An annual licensing agreement that makes it easy for primary and secondary schools to license all thier computers by counting them just once per year.

Student and Teacher Licence A licensing agreement designed to give students and teachers easier and more affordable ownership of Microsoft products.

Software Assurance for Education Customers Follow the link to show the benefits available to education customers with Software Assurance for software acquired through Microsoft volume licence agreements.

Other Licensing Programmes

Open and FPP licence programmes are for single or very low volume purchases and are generally more expensive than the recommended licence schemes above. Most establishments should have access to one or more of the preferred licensing programs above.

Open Licence This licence provides volume-licensing benefits and volume-based pricing for education organisations.

Full Packaged Product A boxed version of a Microsoft product that is the same as regular retail packages, except at a special price for educational organisations.

More Information

Microsoft has prepared a guide to education licensing to help answer any questions you may have when considering which licensing option is most suitable for your organisation.

• Download the 'Concise Guide to Licensing' as a PDF file (852 KB/2 mins 55 secs at 56 Kbps)

Comprehensive information about using Microsoft products and applications is available in our Product Use Rights document.

• Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights (US)
• Link to Volume Licensing Briefs (US)
• Link to Microsoft Volume Activation 2.0 for education (US)

Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance

Join the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA), an annual membership programme for Computer Science, Engineering, and Information Systems technical departments.

Now secondary schools can join the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA), an annual membership programme that entitles you to install Microsoft Visual Studio .Net and Visual Studio 6.0 on every instructional computer in your school.

• Find out how you can join