Software Downloads and Licensing

Last Updated: 10/17/2019

The list below shows software available for the University of Colorado. Use the search box or drop-down menu to narrow the results to a certain criteria (e.g. campus, operating system, eligibility). For software not listed below, departments and individuals should seek educational discounts directly from the software producers or resellers.

  • Adobe Acrobat Pro

    Description: Adobe Acrobat Pro for individual use
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No cost for university-owned computers.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

    Description: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign and other Adobe programs.
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: Special rates for end user (Faculty/Staff, Students for personal use) and for university-owned computers

  • Antivirus

    Description: Endpoint Protection for Windows, Sophos
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Students)

  • Apple Software

    Description: Mac OSX, iWork, etc.
    Operating System: MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    Download Eligibility: No fee to end-user for University-owned computers (Department, Faculty/Staff)

  • ArcGIS / Esri software

    Description: Online ESRI Courses, ESRI GIS / mapping
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, Students)

  • AutoCAD

    Description: AutoCAD, Revit, Civil3D, 3ds Max, Raster Design
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • ChemDraw

    Description: Drawing tool for creating molecules and reactions
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • CU Boulder Alerts - Alertus

    Description: Application that displays notifications of significant campus emergencies on your desktop.
    Operating System: WindowsMAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    Download Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • CUClickers

    Description: i>clicker and i>grader software for interactive teaching
    Operating System: Mac Windows
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    Software Eligibility: University and personal computers (Faculty)

  • EndNote

    Description: A reference management software package used to manage bibliographies and references
    Operating System: Windows MAC Linux
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: Online purchase, CU Book Store or Marketplace, inquire at CU Book Store (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Fetch

    Description: FTP client
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Gurobi Optimizer

    Description: Gurobi is an optimizer solver for linear and quadratic programming.
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Highly Confidential Data - SENF

    Description: Software to help you locate any highly confidential data on your system.
    Operating System: Linux
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    Software Eligibility: Personal computers (Faculty/Staff and Students)

  • IDL / ENVI

    Description: Interactive Data Language
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • JMP

    Description: Graphing and statistical analysis
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder, Denver
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • LabVIEW

    Description: Data acquisition & control, measurement & programming
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff or Student)

  • LaTeX

    Description: LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system based on TeX
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department or Faculty/Staff)

  • Mathematica

    Description: Symbolic math, computation, graphics
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff and Students)

  • MATLAB

    Description: Mathematical matrix lab for interactive computation
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Microsoft Software

    Description: Options for downloading Windows, Office, Visio, Project, Server, and other Microsoft products.
    Operating System: Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-users (Department, Faculty/Staff or Student)

  • Mnova

    Description: Mnova is software for NMR data processing and presentation.
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • NVivo

    Description: Qualitative Analysis
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Oracle

    Description: Database, tools and applications
    Operating System: Linux Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • OriginPro

    Description: Graphing and statistical analysis
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • PGP Encryption for Windows

    Description: Performs whole disk encryption for Windows OS and is recommended for faculty that may have student information on their computer.
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    Software Eligibility: University computers (Faculty/Staff and Student Employee)

  • Qualtrics

    Description: Web-based tool for creating and conducting online surveys
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • R

    Description: Open-source programming, statistics, graphics
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • RedHat Linux

    Description: Linux operating system, RHEL 4, 5, and 6
    Operating System: Linux
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • SAS

    Description: Statistical data analysis
    Operating System: Linux Windows
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • SolidWorks

    Description: Computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) software.
    Operating System: Windows
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Student)

  • SonicFoundry

    Description: Mediasite products for classroom audio/video capture and storage
    Operating System:
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department)

  • SPSS

    Description: SPSS Statistics, data analysis
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • Stata

    Description: Statistics package, "GradPlan"
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver
    License Eligibility: Special rates to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • VoiceThread

    Description: A cloud application accessible from any browser, for collaborative multimedia "documents"
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)

  • VPN

    Description: Secure tunnel into CU Boulder's network
    Operating System: Linux Windows MAC
    Campuses: Boulder
    License Eligibility: No fee to end-user (Department, Faculty/Staff, or Student)