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Higher Education

Reimagine higher education with Microsoft solutions

Let’s reimagine the campus experience together. Microsoft solutions can help you drive innovative student engagement, optimize operations, and ensure a digitally secure campus to empower your community.
BENEFITS

Explore opportunities to meet the diverse needs of your institution

  • Redefine your engagement with students and rethink the ways students experience your institution through AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Power Platform, and Azure.
  • Safeguard your campus technology environment with a full range of integrated solutions for higher education and intelligent digital security.
  • Reshape how everyone at your school accesses, manages, and acts on data with Microsoft Fabric—a single, governed AI-powered platform.
  • With an open, flexible, and global platform that supports multiple programming languages, tools, and frameworks, Microsoft Azure helps researchers achieve faster results.
Products

Transform higher education teaching and learning with student-centered products and solutions.

Microsoft 365

Engage your campus with a single productivity and collaboration solution for work, learning, and research—all with security, privacy, and compliance built into familiar tools.
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Azure

Build, deploy, and manage applications with the comprehensive set of cloud services in Azure. Get peace of mind knowing your data and identities are secured on a trusted, intelligent platform.

Power Platform

Empower faculty, staff, and students to easily build and deploy agile, flexible, transformative solutions with Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI.

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Increase student satisfaction and save on costs with a full suite of interoperable customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that simplify and streamline your operations.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Use generative AI as a helpful assistant in the classroom. Faculty can save time, differentiate instruction, and enhance student learning with Copilot Chat. Bring ideas to life and easily create lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and other class resources using AI assistance built into Microsoft 365 Education apps.

Office 365

Accessible to students and teachers, Office 365 Education includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Defender

Safeguard your institution and prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks campus-wide—across devices, apps, and data—with Microsoft Defender.
RESEARCH

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Research opportunity

National Institutes of Health (NIH) STRIDES initiative

NIH-funded researchers can access special discounts on Microsoft Azure services to accelerate biomedical research.
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Research opportunity

National Science Foundation (NSF) CloudBank

CloudBank provides access to Microsoft Azure for computer science research and education.
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Research opportunity

Microsoft Research fellowships

Microsoft Research offers fellowships and collaborative research opportunities across a variety of disciplines.
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Pricing for higher education

Get started with Microsoft Education

Connect with a Microsoft Education sales specialist for more information on personalized pricing for higher education.
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SCHOOL STORIES

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Since we've deployed Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel, we've seen a dramatic ability to detect [cyberthreats] and prevent many of them before they influence our institution. So, the investment that's been made in our tooling and in our people has really paid off.

Products
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“We’re building a culture around how to effectively use AI, and access to programs like Copilot benefits our students tremendously. We’re helping students understand that these tools both support their academic instruction and complement their professional marketability.”

Products
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics 365 Field Service
Power BI
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“Implementing Dynamics 365 looks like being a game changer for us. It will allow us to innovate quickly, simplify our architecture, and serve our community better by delivering the right information to their fingertips when and where they need it.”

Patrick Winter, Head of Technology and Innovation, Xavier College
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“With Copilot, we're able to do things bigger, better, but also equitably across the university space. It’s changing the way we do everything, and that is a big deal.”

Tim Henkel, Assistant Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, University of South Florida
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“It was refreshing to work with a group that appreciated the needs of both the technologists and the researchers. The Microsoft Azure technology actually beat the data implementation.”

Jonathan Silverstein, Chief Research Informatics Officer, Health Sciences and Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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“[P]ower Platform is … a very nimble product. It allows us to iterate and to deploy quickly with the agility you don't have when you’re using high-code solutions that have to go through bug fixes and QA before you can get them out to the users.”

Tif Vancil, Director of Communication & Collaboration Services, Southern New Hampshire University
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RESOURCES

Explore Microsoft Education resources

Learn more about Microsoft solutions for higher education through trainings, white papers, and other resources.
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For school leaders

Finding High-Impact Opportunities for AI in Education

Learn how education institutions around the world are gaining business value from using AI to improve operational efficiencies and transform student experiences in this IDC infographic, sponsored by Microsoft.1
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For IT professionals

Azure training

Grow your skills to build and manage applications in the cloud with Azure, the Microsoft AI-powered cloud computing platform.
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For school leaders

Quantifying impact of your tech investment

Dive into this white paper to better understand the value, impact, and the total cost of ownership of your tech investment.
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For school leaders

AI in Education - A Microsoft Special Report

Learn about early findings on the future of AI in education, how the community views the importance of responsible AI, and recommendations to capitalize on the opportunities ahead.
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Reimagine student experiences and streamline operations with Microsoft Azure

Use powerful tools in Azure to help your IT team modernize operations, prepare for growth, and embrace AI integration within your institution.
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Explore insights from the AI in Education Report

The swift rise of generative AI is reshaping how schools approach creation, problem-solving, learning, and communication. Explore the key takeaways from Microsoft, partner, and academia research about the future of AI and education.
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Preparing students for the future

In today’s continuously evolving job market, it is important to prepare students with the skills they need for the future. See how Microsoft Education technologies help educators and students build the technical and soft skills needed to excel in their future endeavors.
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    IDC Infographic, sponsored by Microsoft, Finding High-Impact Opportunities for AI in Education, doc #US51871924, March 2024.

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