All PCs, except those in cafe areas and where stated, come with the following software packages as standard: Windows 117 ZipAdobe Acrobat Reader DCAdobe Digital Editions 4.5.12Apabi Reader 4.5.2Anaconda 2024Ansys 2023 (NOTE: Engineering Labs only)Ansys GRANTA Edupack 2023Ansys GRANTA Selector 2023ArcGIS Pro 3.7.1 (NOTE: Main Library and Geosciences areas*)ArgusLab 4.0Audacity 3.7Avogadro 2Bioedit 7.2.5Cambridge Crystallography Database (CCDC)Cervus 3ChemDraw Prime 26CloudCompare 2.13.2 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Crimestat III (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Chrome (Google)Dynare 4.3.3Edge browserEndNote 2025ENVI 6.2 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)ERDAS IMAGINE 2025 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Firefox ESRFStat 2.9GeoDa 1.22 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Git 2.54 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Google Earth ProGrapher 26HEC-RAS 7Image J / Fiji 1.54pInkscape 1.4.4IrfanView 4.75LibreOffice 26.2 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)Mathcad Prime 11MATLAB R2026aMATLAB ToolboxesMEGA 11Mendeley Reference ManagerMicrosoft Office 2024MindGenius 20Minitab 22.5MNova 17MuseScore 4.7Notepad++Nvivo 15.5Ocean Data View 5.8.2Origin 2026Paint.NET 5.1.12 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)PetroMod 2024.3 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)PowerWorld Simulator (NOTE: Engineering areas only*)PSPad 5.5.1Pymol 3.1.5.1Python 3.14R 4.6.1 (with RStudio 2026)SimaPro 8Solid Edge 2020SPSS 31UniSim Design Suite (NOTE: Engineering areas only*)Visual MINTEQ 3.1 (NOTE: Geosciences areas only*)VLC Media PlayerWinCoot 1.3Xpress 9.9 (NOTE: Maths areas only*)Zotero *Noted school applications are available in the following open-access lab areas: - Geosciences: Murchison House- Engineering: Hugh Robson Building Labs, and Hugh Robson Study Rooms- Maths: Main Library, Murchison House This article was published on Tuesday 8 October 2024