26/04/2021
The Top Benefits Of Edu Email Account
If you studied or worked at a university in the US, there's a good chance you received an email address from your school at some point in your life. If you're lucky, you may still have access to your EDU email account.
Because of its connection with students and education, having an email from your school or college offers many benefits. But what are those benefits? Read on to discover the benefits and discounts you can take advantage of with your EDU email account.
Note: There are some ways to secure an EDU email even if you are not involved with a school or college, but they can be a little shady!
If you have an EDU email, you can try Amazon Prime in the US for free for six months. The standard trial period is 30 days.
At the end of the trial period, you will automatically receive the Amazon Prime student discount. You are eligible for 50 percent off the cost of Prime for the duration of your subscription.
While you are using the Amazon Prime student discount, you will have access to all the features of Prime. There are no restrictions or limitations.
And unlike some other services that offer EDU benefits, Amazon Prime does not use SheerID verification. This means that anyone with an EDU email can take advantage of the cheaper plan, even if they're not a student.
Another service that does not use SheerID verification is Adobe Creative Cloud.
All EDU email holders get a 60 percent discount for the first year and a 40 percent discount after that. That means you pay just $20 per month for 12 months, then $30 per month after the first period. The regular price for non-EDU email users is $53/month.
Like Amazon Prime, you have access to the entire Creative Cloud suite. That includes Photoshop, Lightroom, Spark, Premiere Rush, XD, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat Pro.
The massive discount is a great reason to buy Creative Cloud and work on your graphic design skills.
Spotify offers a student discount to students with an EDU email. The discount is not available to teachers with an EDU email or anyone else who cannot be verified as a student via SheerID.
The Spotify student discount is 50 percent. That means you'll only pay $4.99 per month for the duration of your studies up to a maximum of four years. You can keep your discount until the end of a 12-month billing cycle if you graduate midway through your plan.
As a bonus, you'll also get Hulu and SHOWTIME for free, so you can access all three apps for a low price.
Spotify does not apply the student discount to its family plans. If you live in a student house with multiple people and only want a basic Spotify music plan, a family plan may still prove more economical.
Microsoft doesn't use SheerID, so anyone with an EDU email can sign up to get the basic version of Office 365 Education for free.
That means you get online versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams, as well as some education-specific classroom tools not available in regular versions of Office 365. All users also get 1 TB of OneDrive storage for free.
GitHub is offering its Student Developer Pack to all students who can authenticate with SheerID. That means teachers and other EDU email owners are excluded.
The pack includes a wide range of free and discounted tools to help young programmers and coders, including Canva, Name.com, Microsoft Azure, Educative, MongoDB, and more.
It's not just tech giants offering benefits to students. Mainstream media companies have also gotten involved.
The Washington Post newspaper, for example, has an academic rate of $5/month for all students and teachers, and the first month is only $1. The regular portion of a plan is $10 per month.
Likewise, there are student discounts for subscribing to the New York Times. Students get one free month and then pay $2 every four weeks. Teachers and other EDU email holders can use the same service for $4/month.
Both plans allow subscribers to read an unlimited number of articles on any device.
The four major U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile, offer student discounts for those with EDU email addresses.
The exact discounts available vary significantly depending on the institution you attend and the type of plan you want. We recommend speaking directly with the carriers,
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