Students often do have access to free trials of the software, but for anyone interested in continually using them for the purposes of their professional business, eventually they will need to pay for the programs.
These programs are tremendous for landscape designers who wish to use industry-standard software like regular landscape architects however, they can be very expensive. At my college, I teach a course named “Computers in Landscape Design” where I train landscape design students in AutoCad and Adobe Suite Programs, among others.
