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Sep 5, 2025 3:55 PM

Verified College Students: 12 Months of Microsoft 365 Personal

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Microsoft offers Verified College Students: 12 Months of Microsoft 365 Personal (New Accounts only) for Free.

Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.

Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.

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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • Offer ends October 31 or while supplies last.
  • Use your college or university email address to verify your student status and sign up to get 12 free months, plus save over 50% on the regular price of Microsoft 365 Personal going forward.
  • 12-month free offer is only available to college student users who are not currently Microsoft 365 Personal student offer subscribers.
  • After 12 months, you will continue to be charged the applicable monthly subscription fee unless you cancel in your Microsoft account. A payment instrument is required to sign up.
  • Refer to the original post & forum comments for additional details & discussion.

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Microsoft offers Verified College Students: 12 Months of Microsoft 365 Personal (New Accounts only) for Free.

Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.

Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.

Editor's Notes

Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • Offer ends October 31 or while supplies last.
  • Use your college or university email address to verify your student status and sign up to get 12 free months, plus save over 50% on the regular price of Microsoft 365 Personal going forward.
  • 12-month free offer is only available to college student users who are not currently Microsoft 365 Personal student offer subscribers.
  • After 12 months, you will continue to be charged the applicable monthly subscription fee unless you cancel in your Microsoft account. A payment instrument is required to sign up.
  • Refer to the original post & forum comments for additional details & discussion.

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Written by TomB4719

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Microsoft 365 Personal here is mainly a 1TB OneDrive play, with the full Office apps, Copilot, device sign in on up to five devices, and ad free email as extras. Enrollment appears to need only an .edu address for verification, and the license can stack in some cases or run through 2030. The free year can be followed by $5 per month, which is framed as a solid price for the storage. The main catch is that school email access can disappear after graduation, and the offer may not work for every existing account.

  • Students who want a year of cloud backup, because it includes 1TB of storage and can continue at $5 a month afterward.

  • Students with an .edu address but no identity verification, because enrollment appears to need only email verification.

  • College seniors about to graduate, because signing up near the end of school can preserve the full 12 months from that point.

  • People who want to stack a free year onto an existing subscription, because the offer can stack with a different student email.

  • Graduates who may lose school email access, because eligibility can disappear when the .edu address is revoked or stops working.

  • People expecting Microsoft apps to replace Google Docs for complex spreadsheets, because formulas, macros, and conversions can break.

  • Anyone who needs reliable desktop Office access on a new laptop, because the license may only work through the web option on some devices.

  • People trying to add this to an existing Microsoft 365 account, because stacking may fail or require a different account.

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Sep 5, 2025 4:10 PM
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steppedinitSep 5, 2025 4:10 PM
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All you need is an .edu email address. No id.me required.
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iSDealsSep 5, 2025 4:30 PM
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How much will be the OneDrive storage that comes with this?
I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
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Quote from iSDeals View quoted comment :
How much will be the OneDrive storage that comes with this?
I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
This offer is a student discount for Microsoft 365 Personal. It includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1 TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
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Quote from iSDeals View quoted comment :
How much will be the OneDrive storage that comes with this?
I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
1TB.

This is an EDU discount on the standard MS365 Personal [microsoft.com]which is usually $100/yr or $10/mo. After the first year (free) you pay $5/mo thereafter.

For one person
Sign in to five devices at once
Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets
1 TB of secure cloud storage
Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1
Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security
Ad-free secure email
Last edited by Dr. J September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM.
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Quote from steppedinit View quoted comment :
All you need is an .edu email address. No id.me required.
My uni took away my old .edu email address after parting. Farewell college days.
Sep 5, 2025 6:51 PM
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Edgar23cbSep 5, 2025 6:51 PM
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i wish i saw this yesterday my college gives me free access but I bought a new laptop and it wont let me use it on there unless its the web option which I dont try to use so I spent 12$ on a activation key for office 2024 yesterday oh well its only 12$
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Quote from 1-6 View quoted comment :
My uni took away my old .edu email address after parting. Farewell college days.
One of my alma's gave out *.edu emails for alums. That seems to be pretty common for larger universities. I don't use it except for deals that require one to be a student LOL

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Tip - Make sure to go in and cancel recurring billing. It'll still keep the trial intact.
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Very few college students use Microsoft 365, they're all on Google Workspace apps instead. Microsoft fumbled this specific market tremendously.
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Quote from HappyMoon4596 View quoted comment :
Tip - Make sure to go in and cancel recurring billing. It'll still keep the trial intact.
I did that, but I guess since my current subscription doesn't end for a couple of days, I am getting an error.
Sep 5, 2025 8:21 PM
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HyperboleeSep 5, 2025 8:21 PM
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Blows me away that ANYONE would pay a subscription for stuff that hasn't changed since 2010. Buy office 2010 once and never pay again. How did people allow them to get away with this scam?
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Sep 5, 2025 10:07 PM
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earlwinfSep 5, 2025 10:07 PM
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deal is legit,
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Sep 5, 2025 11:05 PM
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superslickzSep 5, 2025 11:05 PM
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Most schools give you office access anyways, but I guess the best thing to do is sign up when you are about to leave school and get 1 year from that point.
Sep 5, 2025 11:27 PM
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vickey_gandhiSep 5, 2025 11:27 PM
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Quote from Hyperbolee View quoted comment :
Blows me away that ANYONE would pay a subscription for stuff that hasn't changed since 2010. Buy office 2010 once and never pay again. How did people allow them to get away with this scam?
Lately, the hook these companies are using is to sell the product for cheap but offers 1Tb of cloud space which needs to be bought every year to continue. Customers do like this type of scam !
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Quote from HappyMoon4596 View quoted comment :
Tip - Make sure to go in and cancel recurring billing. It'll still keep the trial intact.
I go a step further and sign up with a temporary credit card number from privacy . com for all of these "free" trials

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