The free temporary campus license for MATLAB expires on August 31, 2020. The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Math have agreed to fund an expanded campus license until September 2021.

New features of the expanded campus license include:

  • Unlimited access all new and future add-on “toolboxes” at no additional cost
  • Software available to all UW faculty, staff, and students for non-commercial research and academic use
  • Accelerator & Startup Program provides UW start-up businesses with one year of free access to MATLAB
  • Use of MATLAB is extended to high performance computing clusters
  • Courseware for instructors, including MATLAB Grader service for evaluating students’ code
  • Extensive training materials through the UW portal on Mathworks’ web site.

All MATLAB users can download and install the software on their own computers or use MATLAB through a browser in the MATLAB Online cloud. For details of how to access MATLAB under this expanded campus agreement, please visit: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISTKB/pages/284525621/MATLAB