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If you are heading off to college there are a lot of pieces of software that you might feel that you need to have. Some students will feel that they need various items of software much more than others and some of them will be right. However, for most students who are not in a very software heavy field, there are alternatives to many of the items of software they might feel they need to buy. This is good news because it can cost a lot to buy software .

Students in software heavy fields can sometimes also get away with not buying the software after all if they know the right people or the right sites. If you do have to buy the software, because it can not be found in a free version, you can often buy a cheaper version as part of a learning package. Usually you have to be able to prove that you are a student at a college before they will hand it over, but for most students this is not too hard a problem.

If it is still too hard to find and buy the software that you need for the courses you are looking at for college, there are other ways around it. Sometimes colleges can get even larger discounts or will give away the software to a select few students who need the help.