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Microsoft Volume Licensing programs provide simple, flexible, volume-based pricing. Find the program to fit your budget and needs.
Microsoft Campus Agreement (higher education)
Microsoft Campus Desktop Packages (higher education)
Microsoft School Agreement (primary and secondary education)
Microsoft School Deskop Packages (primary and secondary education)
Microsoft Select Plus for Academic (k12 & higher education )
Student Select Plus
Windows 7 Upgrade path
Microsoft Campus Agreement 
for higher education institutions
A simple, flexible program for Higher Education that enables you to standardize your software across your organization, keep your technology up-to-date and place software orders annually and as needed throughout the year. Each Campus Agreement includes the benefits of Software Assurance, and one MSDN Academic Alliance membership. Academic volume license customers may choose to grant Work at Home rights to faculty and staff.
Benefits
- Easy compliance. Because all of your institution's computers and users are covered throughout the subscription term, it's easy to ensure that your institution is fully licensed for use of the Campus Agreement products you've selected.
- Low administration. Subscription licensing helps eliminate the need to track licenses for individual Campus Agreement licensed products on every computer. This is especially helpful for managing software assets in a decentralized environment.
- Current technology. With subscription licensing programs, your users can run the most current version of the software products included in your agreement, and your institution automatically receives media for products that upgrade during your agreement term.
- Simple budgeting and purchasing. One annual payment covers all of the Campus Agreement products you've selected for the year
- Excellent value. By standardizing on a platform of products, you reduce your total cost of ownership while helping to increase productivity and access to current technology. You also get the benefits of Software Assurance, and one complimentary MSDN Academic Alliance membership
- Product availability. You may order subscription licenses for a wide selection of Microsoft software through the Campus Agreement program. Please refer to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Product List for a complete list of currently available products.
If you prefer to license your computers and users for a standard set of desktop products, Microsoft provides the following "Desktop" packages, which offer a discounted price over the cost of licensing the products individually. However, A’la carte selections are also available.
Campus Agreement Desktop Packages
The Campus Desktop package includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Core CAL Suite
The Campus Desktop with Enterprise CAL includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite
As with all products licensed through your Campus Agreement, you have the option of deploying downgrade versions (previous versions) in place of the current licensed version. For instance, you maychoose to deploy the Windows XP Professional operating system instead of the Windows 7 Enterprise operating system.
Microsoft School Agreement
for primary and secondary schools and districts
Microsoft School Agreement is a subscription licensing program specifically created to address the unique needs of primary and secondary schools and districts. With the simplicity of counting computers just once per year, School Agreement makes it easy for you to license all of your computers, whether in a single school or throughout the entire district. Each School Agreement includes the benefits of Software Assurance Membership, and one MSDN Academic Alliance membership. School Agreement customers may choose to grant Work at Home rights to faculty and staff.
Benefits
- Easy compliance. Because all of your institution's computers and users are covered throughout the subscription term, it's easy to ensure that your institution is fully licensed for use of the Campus Agreement products you've selected.
- Low administration. Subscription licensing helps eliminate the need to track licenses for individual Campus Agreement licensed products on every computer. This is especially helpful for managing software assets in a decentralized environment.
- Current technology. With subscription licensing programs, your users can run the most current version of the software products included in your agreement, and your institution automatically receives media for products that upgrade during your agreement term.
- Simple budgeting and purchasing. One annual payment covers all of the Campus Agreement products you've selected for the year.
- Excellent value. By standardizing on a platform of products, you reduce your total cost of ownership while helping to increase productivity and access to current technology. You also get the benefits of Software Assurance, and one complimentary MSDN Academic Alliance membership.
- Product availability You may order subscription licenses for a wide selection of Microsoft software through the Campus Agreement program. Please refer to the Microsoft Product List for a complete list of currently available products.
If you prefer to license your computers and users for a standard set of desktop products, Microsoft provides the following "Desktop" packages, which offer a discounted price over the cost of licensing the products individually. However, A’la carte selections are also available.
Campus Agreement Desktop Packages
The Campus Desktop package includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Core CAL Suite
The Campus Desktop with Enterprise CAL includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite
As with all products licensed through your Campus Agreement, you have the option of deploying downgrade versions (previous versions) in place of the current licensed version. For instance, you may choose to deploy the Windows XP Professional operating system instead of the Windows 7 Enterprise operating system.
Microsoft Select Plus for Academic
For K12 & Higher Education
Select Plus for Academic offers a non-expiring agreement, the flexibility to acquire licenses as needed, a single customer ID to streamline account management across multiple affiliates, and the ability to add value with a full 36 months of Software Assurance
Features & Benefits
- Simplified purchasing. A single, perpetual agreement for transactional purchases provides more flexibility and eliminates the need to renegotiate and renew agreements every three years.
- Improved management. Select Plus for Academic agreements are associated to a single Customer ID, enabling asset reporting under a single, master agreement for all affiliates. Improved self-service, online tools give customers and partners better management capabilities.
- Savings. Special academic pricing level applies to software license purchases across the entire customer organization, including affiliate locations such as individual sites, departments, or members of an educational consortium or other aggregate group.
- More value from Software Assurance. When you add Software Assurance—the comprehensive maintenance program from Microsoft—to your license purchases, you receive a full 36 months of benefits, regardless of purchase timing.
- Software AssuranceSoftware Assurance is a simple way to keep current with Microsoft products. Under the Software Assurance program, you acquire the right to install any new release of covered products during your coverage term. (With Select Plus for Academic, you get a full 36 months of coverage, regardless of when you purchase Software Assurance.) Based on whether you acquire Software Assurance for individual licenses or for an entire pool of products (applications, systems, or servers) you may also qualify for additional benefits, such as support resources, tools, and E-Learning courses.
Student Select Plus
K-12 and higher education customers can pass on the discounts of their Select Plus agreement to their students by participating in the Student Select program. Your institution must be currently enrolled in a Select or Select Plus Agreement to participate. If you are not currently enrolled please contact us to get enrolled.
Orders for Student Select are distributed via download on a customized ScholarBuys Vstore at VarsityBuys.com. Optionally, licenses and corresponding individual media are placed with ScholarBuys in bulk to distribute on your campus or bookstore.
ScholarBuys provides marketing material to promote this program on Campus. Materials include flyers, posters, email copy, social media content and much more.
