IT Software Resources

As a Penn State graduate student, a large variety and scope of low- or no-cost software is available to you. Widely used packages such as Microsoft Office Suites and Adobe Creative Cloud are available free of charge to all students. The University Libraries support Citation Management tools to support your writing needs.

Specialized software packages to support particular research projects are also available through Penn State. For example, the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core helps researchers incorporate geographic information into research. Materials Studio provides capabilities for materials modeling and simulations. You will also be able to explore high-performance computing applications commonly used for research through Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, a fabulous resource for those with a passion for big data and big simulation methods.

Begin your exploration of the software that Penn State has to offer at the Software at Penn State Links to an external site. website.