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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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An old .edu email can work if it still verifies, but some schools revoke alumni addresses or stop them from working later. If the address no longer functions, eligibility will fail.
The offer includes 1TB of OneDrive storage, plus the standard Microsoft 365 Personal apps and features. After the free year, the EDU pricing is $5 per month for the same 1TB plan.
An .edu email address is enough for verification, and ID.me is not required. The .edu address is used only to confirm eligibility.
It can stack if you sign in with the Microsoft account you want credited and use a working student email for verification. The resulting subscription can extend the existing plan, with one report showing it pushed coverage out to September 2030.
Yes. Canceling recurring billing keeps the free trial intact and avoids being charged when the free year ends.
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I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
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I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
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I guess worth to take a chance if they extend a free next year as well
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
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