We are delighted to announce Boston University has adopted the MathWorks Total Academic Headcount (TAH) site-wide license program giving BU students, faculty, staff, labs, and computing clusters unlimited access to software and licenses for MATLAB, Simulink, and 48 add-on products at no cost to individuals.

If you are already set up to use MATLAB, you do not need to do anything to continue uninterrupted use of your current installation. When you wish to download a new version of the software and additional tool boxes, you will want to take advantage of BU’s new MathWorks TAH licensing program. 

For detailed information and instructions please visit BU’s MATLAB TAH license page.

Students, Faculty, and Staff

BU students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to get an individual stand-alone copy of the software and TAH license for each of the machines on which you are the sole MATLAB user (includes office and personal machines). The new licensing structure permits your machine to run MATLAB without access to the network once you have downloaded the software and activated your license.

Note that beginning in June 2018, all individually licensed copies of MATLAB will need to be reactivated on a yearly basis.

As part of the BU’s TAH agreement, students who recently (October 1st, 2016 or later) purchased a “MATLAB Student” product are eligible for a refund of their purchase. Please refer to the FAQ for instructions.

Shared-use Workstations, Classrooms, and Clusters

For a single workstation running MATLAB used by several people, the MathWorks TAH campus license is used. For large scale MATLAB deployments in larger classrooms, labs, and clusters, the MathWorks TAH concurrent network license on the IS&T server is used. Current MATLAB installations will continue to run as is uninterrupted. 

More details about the three licensing models can be found on BU’s MATLAB TAH license page.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact the IT Help Center by sending an email to ithelp@bu.edu or calling 617-353-HELP (4357).