The software should not be a trial version. It should be proprietary software and its full features should be freely available for use in academic institutions.
For instance, I know of a program from Microsoft that supports technical education by providing access to Microsoft software for learning, teaching and research purposes to all students, academics, etc. This program is called DreamSpark and it has a wider software catalog of over 500 products and is for qualifying technical departments only.
https://www.dreamspark.com/What-Is-Dreamspark.aspx
In addition, apart from Microsoft, full feature Gurobi Optimization software is also freely available for academic institutions.
http://www.gurobi.com/
Would you please suggest more software free for academic institutions?
I think the full(?) version of the presentation software Prezi is free to teachers and students. http://www.prezi.com
Two of the most powerful optimization suite for industrial size problems are free for academic programs (teaching and research activities, non commercial):
Xpress (FICO)
http://www.fico.com/en/products/fico-xpress-optimization-suite/
CPLEX (IBM)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/commerce/optimization/cplex-optimizer/
Gimp ( http://www.gimp.org ) is drawing and photo manipulation freeware. It can be useful for e.g. designing.
Practically all of the software in the IBM catalog is available for universities through the IBM Academic Initiative. See http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/academic_initiative .
This requires an individual at a university act as an administrator, and then confirmation comes either from faculty (e.g. name on a university web page) or by validation by a supervising professor.
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