Oregon State University has subscribed to a Total Academic Headcount (TAH) Student site license for MATLAB. It includes many, but not all MATLAB toolboxes.

Students and faculty are allowed to install MATLAB on up to four personally owned computers. The license will require yearly reactivation. The installed software does not talk to a license server or require VPN to the OSU network.

If you have an existing MATLAB installation, it will continue to work. If you wish to change to this new license, we recommend removing your old installation and starting fresh.

The steps for downloading and installing yourself:

You MUST follow these directions, especially regarding your ONID email address. Please do not email support for help unless you are certain you have followed these instructions.

  • Create a MathWorks account here using your @oregonstate.edu email address. Note that you MUST use your ONID email address in the form of @oregonstate.edu. NOTE: If you have an existing MathWorks account using @onid.oregonstate.edu, you may continue to use that. Do not register with any other address. Select your country (US), and "Student" when asked which role best describes you.
  • Check for a confirmation email. This may take a few minutes. If you do not get the email after a few minutes, check your spam folder. If you still haven't gotten it, you can always just sign up again with the same email.
  • When the activation email arrives, before clicking the link, copy this activation key to your clipboard (control or command -c): 65162-02768-65921-28730-75802
  • Click the link in the email to return to the MathWorks website, and fill out the form using the above activation key in the provided field to create your account. 
  • Upon activating your account and logging in, you will be given to option to download the software as seen below. Or you can click this link.
  • Locate and run your downloaded installer file.
  • In the MATLAB installer, sign in with your MathWorks account that you just created.
  • Accept the license agreement if prompted to. Signing in with your MathWorks account should give you the license option below. Click "Next" to proceed.
  • Continue going through the installer, which will ask you where you want to install the program (the default location is fine). After this, you will receive the following message:
  • You will then be redirected to an OSU login page. Once you sign in, you can go back to the installer, click "OK", and then continue.
  • By default, ALL toolboxes and SIMULINK are selected for download. This amounts to 4.5 GB. You may want to deselect unneeded toolboxes/software.

    List of available software and toolkits from MathWorks

    Aerospace_Blockset

    Aerospace_Toolbox

    Antenna_Toolbox

    Audio_System_Toolbox

    Automated_Driving_Toolbox

    Bioinformatics_Toolbox

    Communication_Toolbox

    Compiler

    Control_Toolbox

    Curve_Fitting_Toolbox

    Data_Acq_Toolbox

    Database_Toolbox

    Datafeed_Toolbox

    Distrib_Computing_Toolbox

    Econometrics_Toolbox

    EDA_Simulator_Link

    Excel_Link

    Filter_Design_HDL_Coder

    Financial_Toolbox

    Fin_Instruments_Toolbox

    Fixed_Point_Toolbox

    Fuzzy_Toolbox

    GADS_Toolbox

    GPU_Coder

    Identification_Toolbox

    Image_Acquisition_Toolbox

    Image_Toolbox

    Instr_Control_Toolbox

    LTE_HDL_Toolbox

    LTE_Toolbox

    MAP_Toolbox

    MATLAB

    MATLAB_Builder_for_Java

    MATLAB_Coder

    MATLAB_Report_Gen

    MBC_Toolbox

    MPC_Toolbox

    Neural_Network_Toolbox

    OPC_Toolbox

    Optimization_Toolbox

    PDE_Toolbox

    Phased_Array_System_Toolbox

    PolySpace_Bug_Finder

    PolySpace_Bug_Finder_Engine

    PolySpace_Server_C_CPP

    Power_System_Blocks

    Powertrain_Blockset

    Real-Time_Win_Target

    Real-Time_Workshop

    RF_Blockset

    RF_Toolbox

    Risk_Management_Toolbox

    Robotics_System_Toolbox

    Robotics_System_Toolbox

    Robust_Toolbox

    RTW_Embedded_Coder

    Signal_Blocks

    Signal_Toolbox

    SimBiology

    SimDriveline

    SimElectronics

    SimEvents

    SimHydraulics

    SimMechanics

    Simscape

    SIMULINK

    Simulink_Code_Inspector

    Simulink_Control_Design

    Simulink_Coverage

    Simulink_Design_Optim

    Simulink_Design_Verifier

    Simulink_HDL_Coder

    Simulink_PLC_Coder

    SIMULINK_Report_Gen

    Simulink_Requirements

    Simulink_Test

    SL_Verification_Validation

    Stateflow

    Statistics_Toolbox

    Symbolic_Toolbox

    Text_Analytics_Toolbox

    Trading_Toolbox

    Vehicle_Network_Toolbox

    Video_and_Image_Blockset

    Virtual_Reality_Toolbox

    Vision_HDL_Toolbox

    Wavelet_Toolbox

    WLAN_System_Toolbox

    XPC_Target

  • Once you reach the end of the installer, you'll be able to begin the installation and you should be good to go.

Having Problems?

The vast majority of issues are resolved by carefully reviewing this information:

Confirm that you registered with username@oregonstate.edu. No other email addresses are allowed; not onid.orst.edu; not @onid.oregonstate.edu; only @oregonstate.edu is allowed. If you have an existing MathWorks account with using @onid.oregonstate.edu you may continue to use that, but all newly created accounts must use @oregonstate.edu. You will not be able to use the activation key without the proper email address.

The email from MathWorks is only to confirm the email address is valid. It will not include an activation key or download link.

If you have questions or experience difficulty with your installation, please contact us at support.

Updating

1) Open MATLAB on your laptop

2) On the Home ribbon click the triangle under Help

3) Choose "Activate Software"

4) Once reactivated, you will need to restart MATLAB before the new license file is recognized

Update Matlab
Select "Activate" and then "Activate using Internet"

If the installation has already expired, you will be prompted to activate when attempting to launch MATLAB. If the activation finishes successfully, it will roll over to the new license file once the old one expires. You might continue to see the expiration warning in MATLAB until the old file expires.