Are you eligible for Microsoft academic discount pricing?
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Customers meeting the criteria below are eligible to acquire Microsoft Academic Edition (AE) products in the programs indicated and are defined as Qualified Educational Users:
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All Microsoft eligible education customers must be located or reside in the United States. Qualified Educational Users are a those entities that both have an educational purpose or mission and meet the criteria specified below. If a controversy exists as to an organization's eligibility, Microsoft retains the right to determine in its sole discretion the eligibility of the organization for the specific transaction in question. The following are eligible to acquire Microsoft Academic Edition (AE) products in the programs indicated and are defined as Qualified Educational Users.
Defined as an accredited institution organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students (“Educational Institutions”). An accredited institution must be:
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A public or private
K-12, vocational school,
correspondence school,
junior college, college,
university, or
scientific or technical
school that is either
institutionally
accredited by an
accrediting agency
nationally recognized by
the U.S. Secretary of
Education or, in the
case of public K-12
institutions only,
recognized or approved
by the Department of
Education of the State
in which it is located. |
| 2. | A preschool meeting all of the following criteria: (i) is 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 (ii) has been in operation for at least one year. |
Eligible Programs:
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Defined as (a) district, regional and state administrative offices of public Educational Institutions (b) administrative entities organized and operated exclusively for the administration of private Educational Institutions, or (c) other state or local government entities nearly all of whose activities consist of administrative support, of a nature that advances academic learning, for public Educational Institutions.
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Eligible Programs:
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C) Full and Part Time Faculty
& Staff
Defined as all full and part
time faculty and staff of
Educational Institutions.
Eligible Programs:
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Defined as full and part time enrolled students of Educational Institutions. Eligible Programs:
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Eligible Programs:
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Special note regarding Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories:
Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories (including independent Research Laboratories or Research Laboratories affiliated with the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy) are NOT eligible to acquire Academic Edition (AE) products unless they are wholly owned and operated by a qualified Educational Institution as defined above in Section A. "Wholly owned and operated" means that the Educational Institution is the sole owner of said hospital, healthcare system or research laboratory and the only entity exercising control over said institution’s day-to-day operations. Additional information on determining if an entity is wholly owned and operated by an Educational Institution can be found by referring to the: Hospital definition (28 KB Microsoft Word document).
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 |
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Non-profit/charitable
organizations that do
not meet the
qualifications above
These organizations may
qualify for the
Charity Open License
program. |