Microsoft Campus Agreement or MSCA is a program intended to offer significant discounts on Microsoft products to students, faculty, and staff of select universities which enter into a yearly contract with Microsoft. (Windows XP Professional sells, at some University stores, for as low as $10.00 [2].) Each software package available under the MSCA can be purchased only once. Upon graduation, students can typically receive perpetual licenses for the purchased software.
Software sold under MSCA licenses included Windows XP Professional, versions of Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio .NET suite of developer tools.
Additionally, MSCA licensing required those who purchased Windows XP Professional have an existing Windows license and allowed for Office products to be installed on, at most, two computers.
Prior to 2003, MSCA licensed software was distinguishable from non-MSCA licensed software in that the CDs were not holographic, did not require activation (for those products which would have otherwise required activation), and, in some cases, did not require a valid license key.
Ball State University
California State University
Community Colleges of Spokane
DeVry University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Iowa State University
Lancaster University
Life Pacific College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Morrisville State College
Oklahoma State University
Purdue University
Texas A&M University
Texas Tech University
University of Calgary
University of Chicago
University of Florida
University of Houston
University of Iowa
University of Leeds
University of Texas at Austin
University of Twente
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
University of Westminster
Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT), representing approximately forty Texas institutions of higher learning, entered an annual Consortium Campus agreement beginning in 2000 to provide all member institutions with MSCA access. ICUT members represent over 85,000 full-time students and nearly 30,000 part-time students. Some members are listed below:
Abilene Christian University
Baylor University
Beijing Jiaotong University
Dallas Baptist University
Hardin-Simmons University
McMurry University
Rice University
Shandong University
Southern Methodist University
Texas Christian University
University of Dallas
