Click here to place a workorder for software on your Bowdoin office computer.
Click here for self-service downloads of Home and Student Use licenses. This software is provided free of charge to current faculty, staff and students as allowed by our licensing agreements. Please note: this service is not for use on Bowdoin-owned computers.
We have over 300 software titles in use. The following is a list of the most commonly used software programs at Bowdoin. You can also see a listing of all software provided on our Mac and PC labs.
General Software |
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| Software title | Type of license | Faculty & Staff Home Use? | Student Personal Computer Use? |
| Adobe Acrobat Writer | concurrent use | limited | no |
| Adobe Creative Suite | concurrent use | limited | no |
| Apple Mac Operating System | site | limited | yes |
| Endnote | site | yes | yes |
| Hypersnap | site | no | no |
| Microsoft Office | site | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Windows Operating System | site | yes | yes |
| Sophos Antivirus | site | yes | yes |
Academic Software |
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| Software title | Type of license | Faculty & Staff Home Use? | Student Personal Computer Use? |
| Chemdraw | site | yes | yes |
| eViews | concurrent use | no | no |
| Finale | concurrent use | no | no |
| Matlab | concurrent use | no | no |
| Mathematica | site | yes | yes |
| MathType | departmental | yes | yes |
| Minitab | concurrent use | no | no |
| Prism | site | yes | yes |
| SPSS | site | no | no |
| Stata | Concurrent use | no | no |