GitLab for the education industry

Help your educational institution — whether it’s a college, university, high school, code school, or something in between — deliver software faster and more securely.

With GitLab’s DevSecOps platform, you have everything you need to bring teams together to shorten cycle times, reduce costs, strengthen security, and increase productivity.

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Accelerate your digital transformation

Make your digital transformation a success with a single application for the entire software delivery lifecycle. GitLab’s DevSecOps platform will help you:

Modernize the way you create and deliver software
Increase operational efficiencies
Deliver better products faster
Reduce security and compliance risk

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Improve collaboration with a single platform

Help everyone — developers, operations, security, and even faculty and students — work together more efficiently with a DevSecOps platform designed for collaboration across distributed teams. With GitLab, you have:

Project planning with transparent issues, epics, boards, milestones and more
Robust version control and history
Merge requests for reviewing and discussing code (and the results of tests and scans) before merging it

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Ensure security and compliance

Secure your data, research, applications, student coursework and everything else, all while ensuring compliance with GitLab’s DevSecOps platform. With a comprehensive set of built-in security scanners, dependency scanning to help you create a SBOM, and compliant pipelines to help you automate security and compliance policies, you can meet your requirements without sacrificing speed.

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Join faculty around the world and give your students the enterprise edge by bringing GitLab into your classroom and research lab.

GitLab is a single platform for project management, collaboration, source control management, git, automation, security, and much more. Because it is easy to use, flexible, and all in one place, it is the best choice for integrating industry practices on campus. The GitLab for Education Program gives free licenses of GitLab for teaching, learning, and research to qualified institutions around the world!

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GitLab in the classroom

GitLab is used in dozens of disciplines — not just coding. By bringing GitLab to your classroom, not only will students gain an advantage by learning an industry-leading platform, they’ll learn project management, collaboration, version control, and operational workflows. GitLab can be used as the single source of truth for end-to-end student projects in any domain.

For domain-specific skills, GitLab’s DevSecOps features allow students to learn software development, infrastructure management, information technology, and security. Code testing, continuous integration, continuous development, and security testing are all in one place. Bring your students the tool where they can take their learning to the next level.

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GitLab in research

GitLab is transforming the scientific research process across disciplines by bringing the DevSecOps paradigm to the scientific community. Researchers are finding increased transparency, collaboration, reproducibility, speed to results, and data integrity by integrating GitLab into their research process. Thousands of peer-reviewed papers have been published either about GitLab itself or with data stored in GitLab.

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Invite us to your campus

Our team would love to come help you or your students get started on your DevSecOps journey. We offer workshops, guest lectures, and can chat with your student orgs about DevSecOps, GitLab, and more.

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Get an edge on the job market by learning industry-leading tools now. Leading companies around the world use GitLab to build software — faster and more securely — and you can too.

Start building a portfolio of skills across the DevSecOps lifecycle with GitLab while you are in school. Start small and learn as you go. We are here to help.

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Join the GitLab Forum

Come on by and introduce yourself! We created a special Education category as a resource for our program members. Consider the forum your resource for Q&A on GitLab!

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Attend or host a meetup

Check out our GitLab meetups! A great way to meet professionals in your area and learn about DevSecOps. Can’t find a meetup near you? Start one in your community. We make it super easy

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Join a hackathon

We host quarterly hackathons where you can make contributions, win prizes, and network with other contributors. Students encouraged!

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Getting started

Are you new to GitLab? Check our learning resources to start your DevSecOps journey.

Learning resources

Become a contributor

Are you a student looking to gain experience? Want to develop your skills within a support network? Check our our code contributor program to get started!

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GitLab for the education industry

The future of software development starts here

Why should you choose GitLab?

Help your educational institution — whether it’s a college, university, high school, code school, or something in between — deliver software faster and more securely.

Accelerate your digital transformation

Improve collaboration with a single platform

Ensure security and compliance

Join faculty around the world and give your students the enterprise edge by bringing GitLab into your classroom and research lab.

GitLab in the classroom

GitLab in research

Invite us to your campus

Get an edge on the job market by learning industry-leading tools now. Leading companies around the world use GitLab to build software — faster and more securely — and you can too.

Join the GitLab Forum

Attend or host a meetup

Join a hackathon

Getting started

Become a contributor

Bring GitLab to your campus

Teachers

Schools

Be part of the GitLab community

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