Getting Started for Higher Education

Esri offers a variety of resources for students and faculty interested in exploring GIS technology, concepts, and applications.

• Faculty and staff of a recognized academic institution, library, or museum are eligible for a 40% education discount on purchases of instructor-led and self-paced courses.
• Virtual Campus Annual User Licenses help organizations extend the use of GIS into their curricula and staff development programs.
• Educational institutions, libraries, and museums with Education software licenses have free access to dozens of Esri-authored web courses.
• Esri Press publishes award-winning self-study workbooks that are popular with K-12 and higher education faculty who want their students to apply Esri software tools to explore classroom concepts.
• The GIS Bibliography is a rich resource for those researching GIS and GIScience topics. The GIS Bibliography contains more than 83,000 references including conference proceedings, journals, books, and reports that span the origins of GIS to the present day.