diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 88d93be05caf..0db55bacb2ed 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ nltk==2.0.4
 paramiko==1.9.0
 path.py==3.0.1
 Pillow==1.7.8
-pip
+pip>=1.3
 polib==1.0.3
 pygments==1.5
 pygraphviz==1.1