MATLAB®

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Cost

The MATLAB Funding Consortium funds the 1-year campus-wide license for 2025.  

Attention College of Chemistry and the College of Letters and Science faculty and staff

The College of Chemistry and College of Letters & Science collect license costs from individual or group users.  Faculty and Staff members (including Students using Matlab as employees of the university) from CoC and L&S who obtain a Matlab license may be contacted to provide a chartstring for these charges. For the College of Chemistry, Staff members should obtain the PI approvals before downloading the license

The per license cost is:

College of Chemistry - Starting on July 1st, 2024 it will be $200 per license (email a valid speedtype to chemrecharge@berkeley.edu)
College of Letters and Sciences - $100 per license

Download MATLAB

Individual Licenses

  • Install a new individual license from the MATLAB Portal (requires a Mathworks account).
  • Renewing Existing Installations: Launch MATLAB, Click on Help, Click on Licensing, Select Activate Software

Classroom - Concurrent Licenses

For use with shared-environment computers used in classroom/instruction lab machines for student instruction. Licenses are per machine, and each machine requires its own license. 

Non-networked Computer Licenses

For use with single, off-line computers that cannot connect to the internet to download and activate MATLAB software.

Matlab and Simulink Requirements

Matlab

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications.

Tutorials & Online Training

Data Security

Matlab Drive and Matlab Online are not acceptable for any institutional data classified as sensitive or "critical," including certain personally identifiable human subject data. Any data stored here should be intended for public access (PL0). For more details see: Data Classification Standard