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 UniversityCalifornia State UniversityCommunity Colleges of SpokaneDeVry UniversityHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyIowa State UniversityLancaster UniversityLife Pacific CollegeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyMorrisville State CollegeOklahoma State UniversityPurdue UniversityTexas A&M UniversityTexas Tech UniversityUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of FloridaUniversity of HoustonUniversity of IowaUniversity of LeedsUniversity of Texas at AustinUniversity of TwenteWorcester Polytechnic InstituteUniversity of WestminsterIndependent 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 UniversityBaylor UniversityBeijing Jiaotong UniversityDallas Baptist UniversityHardin-Simmons UniversityMcMurry UniversityRice UniversityShandong UniversitySouthern Methodist UniversityTexas Christian UniversityUniversity of Dallas