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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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HappyMoon4596
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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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steppedinit
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All you need is an .edu email address. No id.me required.
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kimjongdeals
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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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Community Reviews

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.

Common Questions (5)

  • 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.

    Dr. J1-6itk

  • 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.

    Dr. Jnamlook

  • An .edu email address is enough for verification, and ID.me is not required. The .edu address is used only to confirm eligibility.

    steppedinitPurpleMaple

  • 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.

    JiggleKhatSlickDillie

  • Yes. Canceling recurring billing keeps the free trial intact and avoids being charged when the free year ends.

    HappyMoon4596namlook

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Sep 11, 2025 4:36 AM
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icefreshSep 11, 2025 4:36 AM
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Can this be upgraded to a family license?
Sep 11, 2025 8:42 PM
78 Comments
Joined Nov 2010
slofat1Sep 11, 2025 8:42 PM
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Libreoffice is a great alternative that works on windows/apple/linux. Can save in windows format like xlsx or open source ods. I've started to like it more because it reminds me of a older version of excel without all the bloat and pointers to saving on Onedrive. Remember Microsoft knows likely 80% will get hit with the full price tag after the year is over, nothings free.
Sep 11, 2025 10:37 PM
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DonkeyFinestSep 11, 2025 10:37 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?
It's unethical business practices. The software industry and movie industry are trying to push this 'licensing' nonsense to milk the buyer forever.

Like you can 'borrow' a game, software, or a movie that expires and you no longer own it.

This so called offer is betting on people using it for a while (1 yr) put alot of data on it and then lock it up so if they need access they have to pay more money.

It's another Too Big to Fail businesses that Microsoft has evolved into doing anything and everything that makes them suck up the money in the economy.
Sep 13, 2025 6:46 AM
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EfreakSep 13, 2025 6:46 AM
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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?
I used office xp and 2000 (on different devices) until I actually had to upgrade in college because I couldn't open shared documents. after graduation, I switched to open office.
Sep 13, 2025 9:33 PM
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SlickDillieSep 13, 2025 9:33 PM
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Finally got it to work, but it shows I have it for free until September 2030! Embarrassment
Sep 14, 2025 1:26 PM
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Joined Jan 2018
JiggleKhatSep 14, 2025 1:26 PM
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I already have Microsoft 365 Personal using my personal email address. I used my old student email address to get this deal. It stacked! Thank you so much! Make sure you're logged into the email you want this deal to stack onto and hope your student email works.
Sep 30, 2025 2:52 AM
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smooth28laSep 30, 2025 2:52 AM
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Quote from SlickDillie View quoted comment :
Finally got it to work, but it shows I have it for free until September 2030! Embarrassment

Can you explain how you did that?

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Sep 30, 2025 5:04 PM
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SlickDillieSep 30, 2025 5:04 PM
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Quote from smooth28la View quoted comment :
Can you explain how you did that?
Not even sure tbh. I used my ASU edu email and it just happened. Not sure if ASU already has an agreement with MS or what.
Oct 6, 2025 1:50 AM
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StretchDollarOct 6, 2025 1:50 AM
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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?
Your comment is so ironic because I specifically came to SlickDeals tonight because my Office 2010 is completely unusable at this point for Outlook as it's anti spam handling is completely outdated and it stops checking email after merely 24-48h until you kill and restart the process.
Oct 22, 2025 4:59 AM
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ScottoDonoOct 22, 2025 4:59 AM
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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?
Don't buy this for Office at all, I buy it for Onedrive. I mean having the updated Office apps is a side perk
Oct 22, 2025 5:17 AM
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ScottoDonoOct 22, 2025 5:17 AM
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No way to stack with existing account
Nov 2, 2025 3:07 AM
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Joined May 2013
igoogleNov 2, 2025 3:07 AM
690 Comments
This offer is still active on 11/1 when it was supposed to be expired yesterday
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Nov 2, 2025 3:20 AM
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IndigoRain261
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Nov 2, 2025 3:20 AM
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Quote from igoogle View quoted comment :
This offer is still active on 11/1 when it was supposed to be expired yesterday
Not active. Deal gone
Nov 2, 2025 3:41 AM
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namlookNov 2, 2025 3:41 AM
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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?
It's worth it for 1TB of cloud storage. A free year and then $5 a month for 1TB after that is a decent price.

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Jul 10, 2026 8:57 PM
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igoogleJul 10, 2026 8:57 PM
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Does anyone know if this offers comes periodically.. Right now ony offer is 50% off

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