You could buy the Autodesk Education Suite for entertainment an creation 2010. It consists of: 3D Studio Max 2010 Maya Softimage Motionbuilder Mudbox And for a lifetime licence it only costs 150 bucks
You could say the same for books that some courses require. Educational software prices are sweet compared to those things :P Foundation was dropped quite a while before Autodesk got their hands on things (whenever ICE / 7 was introduced, as it would have been able to replace a good number of features Foundation lacked).