MATLAB Campus-Wide License (2024)

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What is MATLAB licensing for campus-wide use? ›

A Campus-Wide License provides unlimited use of MATLAB, Simulink, and online learning tools to all students, faculty, staff, and researchers, on and off campus, on any device. Download templates and customize for your university/institution or create your own materials with the content provided.

A trial provides free, 30-day unlimited use of MATLAB and over 70 products directly on your computer as well as online To learn more about trials, go to the Trial page.

This error can occur when the version of MATLAB is newer than the version of the license file (license. dat) used by the Network license Manager. To resolve this issue, update the license.

This is most commonly seen when administrator credentials are used to install or activate due to to limited user permissions, and as a result, the license file is stored under the administrator account.To resolve this, verify the username of the MATLAB user, then reactivate MATLAB with the correct username.

You can't use MATLAB for free. But you can use the best alternative to MATLAB for free i.e. Octave.

If your school has a campus-wide license and you create a MathWorks Account using your student email address, you will be able to use MATLAB immediately.

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Student licenses that you purchase directly from Mathworks through the online store, do not expire. MOOC licenses provided by a particular course do expire, and can only be extended by the person running the course. Academic licenses for students provided by university can certainly expire.

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Student license: 1 device. Home license: 1 device. Designated Computer license; applies to some Standard licenses and some Educational licenses: 1 device. Educational Total Academic Headcount license (students authorized by their university can use this): 2 devices.

On a machine connected to the internet, go to the License Center and sign in to your MathWorks Account. Select the license you want to deactivate. On the Install and Activate tab, in the right pane, click Deactivate a Computer.

How do I reset my MATLAB license? ›

To update your license manually from within MATLAB, on the Home tab, in the Resources section, select Help > Licensing > Update Current Licenses, and follow the prompts to update your licenses. When you restart MATLAB, it will use any updated licenses.

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Type ' license ' at the MATLAB prompt to get your license number. You can also obtain your license number from your license file. If MATLAB is not yet installed, contact your MATLAB administrator to obtain your license number.

Your individual student license grants perpetual access to MATLAB and Simulink. You can utilize the software indefinitely. The time limit in your account corresponds to the expiry of the one-year included SMS. You can opt to renew SMS annually for continued access to updates and support.

Reactivating MATLAB on a PC or Mac

Navigate to Help Menu > Licensing > Activate Software. Choose Activate using Internet. NOTE: If your computer is behind a firewall, you may need to temporarily deactivate it in order to complete the reactivation process.

You can install the software onto an indefinite number of devices. The number of devices you can activate on depends upon what kind of license you have: Student license: 1 device. Home license: 1 device.

Whether you want MATLAB for personal use, commercial use, or use in teaching and academic research, there's a MATLAB license that meets your needs. For use at a commercial, government, or other organization. For use at approved early-stage companies. Includes MATLAB, Simulink, and 90+ add-on products.

The Home version can purchase almost all the same toolboxes as the Student version. The excepts are that the Student version can purchase MATLAB Coder, and Simulink Coder, but neither of those can be purchased for Home version. Neither Home nor Student can purchase MATLAB Compiler, or MATLAB Compiler SDK.

Organizations that need to license multiple users for MATLAB^® often use a network license, either a Network Named User license (which specifically names users who can use the software) or a Concurrent license (which provides a certain number of keys to use MATLAB).