Software procurement
Employees can purchase software from the University of Bayreuth's framework and central licence agreements directly via the webshop. The software offered under ‘Academic Licensing’ models is generally cheaper than in pricing models for businesses and organisations in the private sector or for private individuals.
In some cases, the contracts also allow students to obtain specific software products at a favourable price (compared to the general prices of specialist retailers) or even free of charge.
For employees: Please note that software purchases can only be made for work purposes via the chairs and on a cost centre basis. Private purchases for personal use are unfortunately not possible.
For questions regarding the procurement of software products that are not covered by one of the current framework agreements and can be found in the webshop or at Studisoft, please contact IT Purchasing or submit a procurement request directly.
Due to the change in the ordering process, you can currently still find some software from the framework contracts that is subject to a certain fee and licence in the ITS Software Online Shop and partly already in the Webshop (off-campus only with activated VPN)
Software provided free of charge or software for ‘home use’ can be found at www.studisoft.de.
As part of the Microsoft Campus3 Desktop licence, employees can use Microsoft Windows on computers at the University of Bayreuth free of charge. After registering, you will find various programme versions on our intranet and can download the various installation files yourself.
The Microsoft Office programmes can only be used individually via Microsoft 365 and can no longer be installed anonymously.
By joining the Microsoft Campus contract, the University gives all students and employees the opportunity to install the office software Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus with the apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Skype for Business on their private computers, tablets and smartphones free of charge.
Instructions for obtaining Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus at:
The think-cell software is an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel that allows you to create your slides as quickly and easily as a sketch on paper. Slides created with think-cell automatically find the right layout and always look appealing. All features - labels, connectors, arrows, etc. - can be created with a click of the mouse and are automatically placed exactly where they belong. The standardised design of all diagrams guarantees a consistently accurate and professional appearance.
After authentication, you will find the installation files in our Intranet.
On the FTP server you will find licence-free software and Linux distributions for download. Unfortunately, we do not offer any further support.
- ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub
On the following FTP server the DFN Association provides many tools around the topics network, security, SSH,... available:
- ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/
The Regional Computing Centre Erlangen has concluded campus licence agreements for various programs that allow students and, in some cases, employees to use these products privately. You can find further information on obtaining software via www.studisoft.de on our intranet.
Currently available:
- Maple 2022 for Students
- Origin 2022 Home Use
- SPSS Statistics 29
- SPSS Amos 29
The current licence conditions and prices can be found on the websites of the respective manufacturers or dealers.
Abaqus Student Edition (Windows) SIMULIA Free Abaqus Student Edition
ANSYS Student (single user licence; Windows) ANSYS Free ANSYS Student products
Autodesk (macOS, Windows) Autodesk Autodesk Student Community (AutoCAD etc.)
Intel Compiler (Linux) Intel C++/Fortran compiler, programme libraries, analysis tools
Mathematica student licence (Linux, macOS, Windows) ADDITIVE computer algebra system
MAXQDA Student (macOS, Windows) VERBI Software GmbH Qualitative data and text analysis
Mindjet MindManager (Windows, macOS) c&H Ausbildungsmedien Distribution GmbH Visualisation and communication of ideas and information
MSC.Software Student Edition (Windows) MSC Software Structural analysis using the finite element model method (MD Nastran/Patran, Marc/Mentat); dynamics simulation of multi-body systems (MD Adams/View)
PTC Creo Student Edition (Windows) PTC CAD system
PTC Mathcad Express (Windows) PTC design calculations
Siemens Solid Edge Student Edition (Windows) Siemens CAD system
Stata Student (Linux, macOS, Windows) DPC Software GmbH Data analysis, statistics, graphics
Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (formerly Imagine Premium or DreamSpark) is a Microsoft programme for students and lecturers in the STEM field, which gives authorised users free access to various Microsoft software products.
Only licensed for students and lecturers of Faculty 1 and 6! Further information can be found on our intranet.
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