Qualify for what? There isn't some sort of objective arbitrator who decides whether Microsoft offers a discount to particular organisations. It's really up to t

Qualify for what? There isn't some sort of objective arbitrator who decides whether Microsoft offers a discount to particular organisations. It's really up to them. For the record, I also did my PhD at CERN, but they just provided facilities (offices, computers, accelerators, detectors etc) and not academic guidance/teaching/assessment: that was the job of my University.