Who Can Get an Academic License?
Gurobi’s academic licenses are available — at no cost — to students, faculty, and staff at accredited degree-granting institutions.
- These licenses are designed to support non-commercial use, including teaching, coursework, and academic research.
- To activate your license, simply connect from your institution’s academic network.
- Need more than one license? No problem. Just request them individually, based on your specific needs.
Our Academic Licenses
Named-User License
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Run Gurobi locally on your personal machine without needing a constant internet connection
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Designed for individual users
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Supports multiple models and large-scale problems
Web License Service
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Access Gurobi from any internet-connected device
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Perfect for users who work across multiple machines or use cloud-based platforms
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Suitable for academic projects that need scalable computing resources
Site License*
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Designed for large universities, departments, or research groups
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Deploy Gurobi across all networked computers, including labs, classrooms, and offices
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Maintain a consistent version and configuration on every machine
Can’t find the license type that you are looking for? Simply submit a help request at support.gurobi.com.
Are you an AMPL, GAMS, or MPL user? Learn about our academic license programs.
Academic Resources
Check out these free, open-education resources to help students and instructors learn and teach optimization at a range of levels.
The Burrito Optimization Game
Serve up learning with the Burrito Optimization Game — a free and fun way to get students hooked on optimization.
Are you an instructor? Explore our complete library of teaching guides, designed to help you seamlessly integrate optimization into your curriculum.
Get Started with Gurobi and Optimization
Gurobi Learn
We make it easy for students, faculty, and researchers to work with mathematical optimization. Build your skills with access to tutorials, courses, and expert resources.
Academic Community
Our Gurobi Community Discussion Forum is here to help answer your questions. You’ll also find step-by-step installation tutorials on our YouTube channel, along with FAQ videos, lectures, and other valuable content from the Gurobi academic community.
Gurobi Quick Start Guides
Jump into Gurobi with our beginner-friendly Quick Start Guides and video tutorials, including our free Udemy course, “Introduction to Optimization Through the Lens of Data Science.” For additional learning, explore optimization courses on Coursera by searching for “optimization.”
Code Examples
Jumpstart your work with practical, ready-to-use code examples covering our most used features.
Jupyter Notebooks
Build optimization models in Python to solve practical problems in business, engineering, and science using engaging real-world scenarios and exploring the interplay between data science and optimization.
Linear Optimization Textbook
Get your free copy of A First Course in Linear Optimization by Dr. Jon Lee, Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan.
