You should look at the page of the university for details. From the MATLAB point of view, you need a license file - likely pointing only the the license server of the university. There are many different ways universtities provide this file to you, so you really need to ask internally.
According to the platform roadmap, MATLAB R2017b is not supported for macOS Mavericks (10.9). macOS El Capitan (10.11) is the oldest macOS version that is supported for MATLAB R2017b.
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