Academic Programs

Tableau supports the academic community to teach data analysis, informatics, and data visualization skills. By supporting educators teaching these skills, our objective is to help students harness the power of visual analysis through our intuitive software.

Tableau for Teaching supports instructors by offering:

  • Free software for use in conjunction with classes
  • Guest lectures via the web to teach your students how to use Tableau
  • Support with data sets and course assignments

Get Tableau - for yourself - If you are an instructor and would like a free copy of Tableau to evaluate for classroom use, please email tft@tableausoftware.com with your request.

Get Tableau - for your students - To use Tableau in your upcoming course, simply complete our Qualification Form or see our FAQ Sheet.

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Tableau for Students

Tableau is pleased to offer any full-time student enrolled at an accredited institution of learning throughout the world a free copy of Tableau for use in their studies.

Students interested in taking advantage of this opportunity can visit our student download page. Please note that students will be asked to verify their current enrollment status prior to receiving a product license key.

Tableau Conference Travel Grant

What type of conferences do you plan to speak at this year? Have you thought about incorporating Tableau into your research, or as a way to present your findings? If so, you’ll want to check out our Conference Travel Grant. The Tableau Conference Travel Grant program financially supports academics and students presenting research that emphasizes Tableau. Examples might include: research on Tableau’s visualization capabilities, substantial data analysis using Tableau, or case studies on the impact of Tableau and information sharing.

Deadline: Submissions requirement of at least three weeks prior to travel.


Student Associations

We partner with student associations. If you would like to provide free access to Tableau for your student association, please see our FAQ sheet.




Tableau offers competitive discounted pricing for educational and not-for-profit institutions.

Educational institutions have data everywhere: from student and donor data to classes, faculty and grants. Yale University, Cornell University, the University of Oxford and hundreds of other institutions use Tableau to make sense of this data.

  • Analyze student data: enrollment statistics, achievement, and demographics.
  • Target areas of the country for alumni activities and development.
  • Prepare Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and other reporting

To learn more about using Tableau for institutional research, see our customer videos and case studies here: http://www.tableausoftware.com/solutions/institutional-research

For information about pricing, please contact us at sales@tableausoftware.com.

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