Perhaps - if you want to enroll your home PC to the your college's Entra....not sure if your school, though, is using Defender...
MSFT Defender has matured greatly as a anti-badware platform.
Even if you're just using Defender that comes stock with Windows, it's better, I would say, than McAfee, AVG, or Norton for my uses.
Meanwhile, as I write this, I am watching some gimmicky commercial for PC Matic, trying to get people to sign on for overpriced anti-malware software on the basis of....how cool these idiots sing...?