Worldwide Academic Qualification

Educational Institutions

An accredited, non-profit, degree granting school or university which is organised and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students and is not affiliated with any private or public corporation or business entity. An accredited institution is:

A public or private vocational school, correspondence school, religious education school, junior college, college, university, or scientific or technical school that is accredited by an accrediting agency nationally recognized by the Department of Education of the country in which it is located.

Faculty and Staff

Full- and part-time faculty and staff of Educational Institutions (defined above.)

Students

Full- and part-time enrolled students of a Higher Educational Institution may purchase individual subscriptions.

Contractors and Consultants

Any entity chartered by a qualified educational institution to purchase and deploy a computing system on the institutions behalf, provided the institution retains ownership of the deployed systems and Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions throughout and following the deployment of the system, are qualified to purchase under this program. Non-Academic entities which provide services, such as outsourcing providers, to qualified educational institutions but do not transfer ownership of both the systems and the Enterprise Linux subscriptions are not qualified to purchase under this program.

Research Laboratories and Healthcare Providers

Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories (including independent Research Laboratories, Research Laboratories funded from outside any affiliated University or Research Laboratories funded and/or affiliated with the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy) are NOT eligible for Red Hat's educational programs unless they are wholly owned and operated by a qualified Educational Institution as defined above. Contact us to know if you qualify for an Academic subscription.