SAS Academic Programs

Educators

Get everything you need to bring analytics into the classroom.

Teach students the skills they’ll need to pursue a lucrative career in the digital age. We provide a multitude of support services and resources for teaching, learning and researching – free workshops, teaching materials, access to free software, e-learning courses and more.

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Get free teaching materials.

Get all the teaching materials you need to teach a SAS course – absolutely free. Use the materials in whole or in part to teach degree-seeking students at the undergraduate or graduate levels, or to train internal university employees.

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Participate in free professor workshops.

Keep your statistical analysis skills at the forefront of the digital age, and bring the power of analytics to your classroom. We offer free workshops on a variety of topics designed to be taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Get training and more for less.

If you're an educator looking to advance your SAS knowledge or incorporate SAS into the classroom, we offer a variety of academic discounts on SAS books, training, certification exams and more.

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Take advantage of all available resources.

Whether you want to build courses, create degree programs, grant certificates, conduct research, acquire analytical skills or network with other SAS users, we provide extensive resources to help you succeed.

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SAS^® Software for Educators

SAS^®
University Edition

If you want to teach basic analytics and statistics to your students using SAS foundational technologies, choose SAS University Edition. The software is available as a free download from SAS or can be accessed in the cloud via Amazon Web Services.

SAS^® OnDemand for Academics

If you want students to access SAS software via the cloud – not on their local machines – or if you're teaching a class that requires students to use powerful software like SAS^® Enterprise Miner^™, SAS^® Enterprise Guide^®, SAS^® Text Miner, etc., for the duration of the course, choose SAS OnDemand for Academics.

Education
Analytical Suite

If you want multiple users to have licensed access to powerful SAS software and the full range of SAS tools with data remaining under your institution's control, choose Education Analytical Suite. It's available via a reduced-cost enterprise license.

SAS & Teradata University Network

If you want to integrate data visualization software into your instruction while teaching students advanced data analysis skills, you can access SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics (and associated teaching materials) for free through a partnership between Teradata University Network and SAS.

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Look who’s using SAS^®.

Thousands of schools around the globe use SAS in the classroom.

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Get free books to evaluate for classroom use.

We offer a variety of publications that can help your students learn SAS. Instructors and committee chairpersons interested in reviewing a book for possible classroom adoption may request up to two free evaluation copies per semester.

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