SAS^® University Edition

SAS® University Edition^®

Teachers, students, independent learners, and academic researchers can download this software for free if it's used for noncommercial learning purposes. It includes Base SAS®, SAS/STAT®, SAS/IML®, SAS/ACCESS® Interface to PC Files and SAS® Studio. Once you've downloaded the software to your PC, Mac, or Linux workstation, SAS works locally on your machine by using virtualization software and your browser, so no Internet access is required. Or you can get SAS University Edition for free via AWS Marketplace (AWS usage fees may apply).

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Get free software for teaching and learning SAS skills that you can use in introductory to advanced-level statistics and quantitative methods classes, or in self-directed learning. These resources are a great place to start.

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View a demonstration of how SAS University Edition can be used to explore data, run analyses and write SAS programs using the SAS Studio interface.

Read about the key features of SAS University Edition and how you can use it to expand your analytical skills.

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Learn the basics

Because SAS University Edition is a virtual application, you need virtualization software to run it. Get started by learning how to download the virtualization software, download the SAS University Edition vApp, and set up shared folders to access your data.

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You can also choose to run SAS University Edition in the cloud by using Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Read about some of the differences in this tutorial:

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Tutorials

Browse our library of free SAS University Edition tutorials. Learn something new. Sharpen your skills.

Using SAS User Interfaces

View an overview of SAS software and the various user interfaces.

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Getting Started with SAS Studio

Learn how to view a data table, write and submit SAS code, view the log and results, and quickly generate graphs and statistical analyses.

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Accessing Your Existing Data

Learn how to access your existing local files using the SAS Studio interface and in SAS program code.

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Getting SAS University Edition Up and Running

Writing and Running SAS Programs

Using SAS Studio Tasks and Utilities

Getting to Know SAS and SAS Studio

Accessing Data

Using Jupyter Notebook

Advanced Tutorials

Expand your SAS University Edition skill set with next-level tutorials.

Learn to extract data from one or more tables according to criteria that you specify.

Advanced Tutorials

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How-To Videos

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Training Courses

Learn SAS technology quickly and efficiently by taking a course from the analytics experts.

SAS Programming 1: Essentials

This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming and a prerequisite to many other SAS courses.

Statistics 1: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression     

This introductory course is for SAS users who perform statistical analyses using SAS/STAT software; it's a prerequisite to many of the courses in the statistical analysis curriculum. The course focuses on t tests, ANOVA and linear regression, and includes a brief introduction to logistic regression.