The SAS Academic Programme for Students

PREPARING FOR A CAREER USING SAS®

Analytical skills are in ever-increasing demand in the international marketplace. SAS is the world leader in providing Business Intelligence software and services, so it's not surprising that job web sites worldwide now increasingly specify SAS skills as a pre-requisite.

For more than three decades, SAS has partnered with educational institutions around the world to help give students the skills and knowledge they need to become tomorrow's leaders. The Global SAS® Academic Program actively supports students who are using SAS technologies through a number of popular programs at little to no cost.

• Software
• Training and Learning
• Statistics
• SAS Certification - quick start
• SAS Ambassador Competition
• Help for students
• SAS Web Pages
• Newsletters

Software

• Get SAS software for research
  The SAS® Fellowship Program provides students with a free limited software license to use SAS for research purposes.
• Discover the SAS® Learning Edition
  SAS users at all levels, from novice to advanced, will appreciate the SAS Learning Edition - an inexpensive, intuitive and easy-to-use personal learning version of SAS software.
  Click here to find out more
• Learn more about our point-and-click interface, SAS® Enterprise Guide®
  This point-and-click interface to SAS makes it easier than ever to take advantage of the power of SAS analytics.
  Click here to find out more

Training & Learning

• Free Tutorials
  Tutorials are shipped as part of SAS products. The purpose of the tutorials is to get new users of the product up and running as quickly as possible. The tutorials provide conceptual overviews of the product and step-by-step instructions on how to perform common tasks using the product interface. When using these tutorials, you should display the tutorial window along side the product window so that you can work through the steps in your actual SAS environment.
  Click here for access to our Free Tutorials
• Self-paced E-Learning
  This just-in-time training is fully interactive and designed to be used in conjunction with SAS software as well as with SAS Learning Edition. Access training directly from your desktop, whenever and wherever it's convenient, at extremely affordable prices. The prices displayed on the web site are corporate - (minus 50% will give you the academic price in USD).
  
• Publications
  SAS has a wide library of publications that will help you:
• SAS software documentation:
  SAS software licences include SAS OnLineDoc CD resources that provide help at the syntax level. The documentation is available online after registering by clicking here.
• SAS Books By Users Program:
  SAS users contribute to this highly respected library of books.
  Click here for further details
• User Group Conference Proceedings:
  Be sure to expand your knowledge of the ways that SAS is used by seeing the proceedings of our SUGI Conference and also those of SEUGI (available from SAS Publications).
  Click here to learn more about users groups.
• SAS Education
  SAS schedules a regular programme of highly regarded courses.
  Click here to visit the UK Education Website.

Statistics

• Get data, examples and tips/tricks.
  The Scholars Digital Library of Analytics and SAS Online Resource for Statistical Education are both excellent resources.
• Find the latest information on using SAS for operations research and statistics The SAS Statistics and Operations Research Community provides up-to-date information that includes technical support, papers, documentation and more.
  Click here for more details.
• Explore new statistics and operations research downloads
  This site contains experimental procedures and macros available as downloads.
  Click here for more details.
• Statistical Procedures in SAS
  http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp including syntax, data and examples.

SAS Certification Programme

SAS Certification is a global qualification that is increasingly desired by employers as it ensures that new and existing employees meet a minimum standard of SAS knowledge.

Learn about the SAS Certification Programme
http://support.sas.com/certify/indiv.html

If you want to get SAS Certification rapidly, possibly because a job application depends upon it, we recommend the following package of software and e-Learning. A 50% discount applies for bona fide academics and students:

SAS Student Ambassadors

Gain recognition for using SAS -
The SAS Student Ambassador Program will pay your travel expenses and registration fees to present at SAS® Global Forum.
Find out more...

SAS HELP for Students

0845 402 9907
support@sas.com
Lo-Call from Ireland: 1850-923-323

SAS Web Pages

The SAS web site is one of the most long-standing commercial web sites on the Internet and it contains a wealth of information:

• Success Stories: Information about some of the most successful uses made of our software.
  www.sas.com/uk/solutions/customer_successes.
  It is interesting to note that we can't publish many of the most successful stories because of commercial confidentiality: customers gain such unique value from using SAS that they don't want their competition to find out!
• Details of SAS products at www.sas.com/uk/solutions
• White Papers at www.sas.com/apps/whitepapers/whitepaper.jsp. These provide a detailed look into how SAS solutions, products and technologies solve business problems

The Customer Support pages provide a mass of useful information www.sas.com/uk/services/csresources.html

Newsletters

Subscribing to free e-newsletters is a convenient way of receiving information. There are several that may be helpful:

"In the Know" is a bi-monthly email communication for our user community. Its aim is to improve the news and information flow about SAS software solutions, technologies and technical support.

Click here to subscribe.