MATLAB Licensing
This article applies to: Software Licensing
MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. We currently have two licenses, both with the same set of 49 additional extensions and toolboxes. MATLAB licensing is fee-based.
Academic licensing for staff and faculty
- Academic licensing must be paid for by Cornell departmental funds.
- Installation onto Cornell-owned equipment only.
- Home Use licensing available at no extra cost.
Student licensing for currently registered students at Cornell University, for installation onto student-owned equipment only, is available at no cost.
Components
Cornell's license for MATLAB includes the full suite of MATLAB and Simulink products.
MATLAB: Full Suite
|
|
Purchase a License
Institutional Volume License (Faculty, Staff, and Students)
The MATLAB 2020-21 volume license runs through July 31, 2021. Please note that the end date is the same regardless of the date of purchase.
If you did not pre-order your MATLAB license during our license assessment survey in July, please order your license by visiting the Cornell Software Licensing page. Click MATLAB in the left sidebar.
Licensing Options
Staff & Faculty Licenses
Your MATLAB volume license allows you to install in either a single-user or a network license configuration. Please note that you need to purchase multiple licenses to take full advantage of the network option.
A single-user license allows installation onto one Cornell-owned computer. If you have been assigned a laptop computer for travel, you may also install MATLAB onto that machine under your single-user license.
Home use: In addition, your MATLAB license allows home use at no additional charge: you may install MATLAB onto your personally-owned equipment under your single-user license. You may not run MATLAB on multiple machines at the same time under one single-user license.
A network license entitles you to install MATLAB on multiple machines on the same subnet, with one designated as a MATLAB license server. You can then use a MATLAB simultaneously on a number of machines equal to the number of licenses that you purchased.
Student Licenses
MATLAB student licenses are available at no cost to all registered full-time and part-time students at Cornell University and the Weill Cornell Medical College. Installation is authorized for a single computer that is the personal property of the student. Student licenses may NOT be installed onto any Cornell-owned computer.
Download
Recommended: Download Directly from MathWorks
We recommend downloading MATLAB directly from the vendor. You may obtain any supported version of MATLAB from Mathworks.
Download from Cornell's Servers
As an alternative to downloading directly from MathWorks, you may instead download disk images of the MATLAB installers from Cornell University's software download server. These installers are ISO files, which is an industry-standard disk image format. For more information about how to work with ISO files, please see our How to Use ISO Files online guide.
Earlier Versions
We have ISO disk images of many earlier releases of MATLAB available to current license holders upon request. Contact us if you need an earlier version.
Installation
System Requirements for MATLAB 2021a
Windows
Supported Windows versions
-
Windows 10 (version 1803 or higher)
-
Windows Server 2019
-
Windows Server 2016
Processor
- Minimum: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor
- Recommended: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor with four logical cores and AVX2 instruction set support
Disk Space
- Minimum: 3.4 GB for MATLAB only, with no add-ons. A typical installation requires 5-8 GB.
- Recommended: A solid-state drive (SSD) is recommended. A full installation of all licensed MATLAB products may take up to 29 GB of drive space.
Memory (RAM)
- 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
- With Polyspace, 4 GB per core is recommended.
Graphics
- No specific graphics card is required, but a hardware-accelerated graphics card supporting Open GL 3.3 with 1GB GPU is recommended.
- GPU acceleration using the Parallel Computing Toolbox requires a CUDA GPU.
Macintosh
Supported Mac OS versions
- macOS 11 (Big Sur)
- macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
Processor
- Minimum: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor
- Recommended: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor with four logical cores and AVX2 instruction set support
Disk Space
- Minimum: 3.3 GB for MATLAB only, with no add-ons. A typical installation requires 5-8 GB.
- Recommended: A solid-state drive (SSD) is recommended. A full installation of all licensed MATLAB products may take up to 30 GB of drive space.
Memory (RAM)
- 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
- With Polyspace, 4 GB per core is recommended.
Graphics
- No specific graphics card is required, but a hardware-accelerated graphics card supporting Open GL 3.3 with 1GB GPU is recommended.
- GPU acceleration using the Parallel Computing Toolbox requires a CUDA GPU.
Linux
Qualified Linux distributions
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS [will be discontinued in an upcoming release]
- Debian 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (minimum 8.1)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (minimum 7.6)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (minimum SP2)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (minimum SP2)
Processor
- Minimum: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor
- Recommended: Any Intel or AMD x86 64-bit processor with four logical cores and AVX2 instruction set support
Disk Space
- Minimum: 3.1 GB for MATLAB only, with no add-ons. A typical installation requires 5-8 GB.
- Recommended: A solid-state drive (SSD) is recommended. A full installation of all licensed MATLAB products may take up to 26 GB of drive space.
Memory (RAM)
- 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
- With Polyspace, 4 GB per core is recommended.
Graphics
- No specific graphics card is required, but a hardware-accelerated graphics card supporting Open GL 3.3 with 1GB GPU is recommended.
- GPU acceleration using the Parallel Computing Toolbox requires a CUDA GPU.
Support
For support, contact Mathworks.
Technical Support
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 8:00pm ET
508-647-7000, press 5
Customer Support
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:30pm ET
508-647-7000, press 4
Comments?