{"id":10156,"date":"2026-01-13T16:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:29:47","slug":"google-colab-free-for-students-and-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2026\/01\/13\/google-colab-free-for-students-and-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Colab Free for Students and Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Colab is an online Jupyter Notebook service that can be used for interactive coding in Python, R, and Julia. The notebook interface makes it possible to mix text, code, and graphics. The Pro version, which includes more processing power and a variety of GPUs is now free for students and educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1024x587.png\" alt=\"Google Colab runtime selection dialog box showing different language and GPU options. \" class=\"wp-image-10157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1024x587.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105x60.png 105w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Google Colab runtime selection dialog box showing different language and GPU options.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To take advantage of the offer, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/colab.research.google.com\/signup\">Colab Signup page<\/a> and verify your enrollment via your Swarthmore email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Colab is an online Jupyter Notebook service that can be used for interactive coding in Python, R, and Julia. The notebook interface makes it possible to mix text, code, and graphics. The Pro version, which includes more processing power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2026\/01\/13\/google-colab-free-for-students-and-faculty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Colab Free for Students and Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,303,357,430,97],"tags":[310,547,90,548,455,457,458,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-10156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-development","9":"category-high-performance-computing","10":"category-research","11":"category-software","12":"tag-coding","13":"tag-colab","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-gpu","16":"tag-jupyter","17":"tag-notebook","18":"tag-notebooks","19":"tag-python","21":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Google_Colaboratory_SVG_Logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-2DO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}