Benefits of having an Edu email address

Syeda Nowshin Ibnat
10 min readNov 9, 2022

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The benefits of having a .edu email account are tremendous. With your .edu email account, you can receive a number of things for free and, in the majority of cases, you can get substantial discounts on things you might need. In this blog, we’ll get to know about some benefits that you can get if you have an .edu email account.

1. GitHub Student Developer Pack

The best resource in the field of software development is GitHub Student Developer Pack. This resource will give you free access to the best developer tools in one place so that you can learn by doing.

Check out this link:

https://education.github.com/pack

Some other links:

  1. https://medium.com/geekculture/ultimate-guide-to-github-student-developer-pack-in-2022-5bebb639bad4
  2. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-github-student-developer-pack-and-how-to-get-it/
  3. https://github.blog/2020-02-25-over-100-partners-to-help-you-succeed-with-the-github-student-developer-pack/
  4. https://github.blog/2019-08-20-the-github-student-developer-pack-is-back/
  5. https://github.blog/2019-07-30-how-to-get-the-github-student-developer-pack-without-a-student-id/

YT video link:

https://youtu.be/0p6eVCIjYgs

*** GitHub also provides some benefits for teachers.

Benefits for teachers:

Necessary links:

  1. https://education.github.com/benefits
  2. https://github.blog/2020-03-12-github-teacher-toolbox-and-classroom-with-autograding/

2. Microsoft Azure Student Developer Resources

Microsoft Azure is a Cloud Platform that provides more than 200 products and services to help develop cloud solutions. Microsoft offers students free resources to help them develop their skills and develop their careers, as well as $100 in Azure credits and expert talks.

Checkout the links:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/students/

How To Get GitHub Student Developer Pack With .edu Mail 2022 || Get Azure 200$ Credit

3. Microsoft Office 365 Education

Microsoft’s flagship products consist of Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, OneNote, OneDrive, and Teams. All of these productivity tools are included in Office 365 Education with other additional tools to assist classroom learning.

Checkout the link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-IN/education/products/office

4. Adobe Creative Cloud for Education

Adobe no longer offers its products separately; instead, all of its software is available through Creative Cloud, a subscription-based approach with cloud storage. It includes applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, XD, and more than 20 others. Adobe gives a 70% discount on Creative Cloud. This Special offer is available for Individuals and Students (First year only).

Checkout the link:

Adobe Creative Cloud for students and teachers

5. Autodesk

Autodesk provides industry-leading powerful software and services for 3D design and modeling of literally anything under the sun. Being a student of engineering makes it impossible to ignore a well-known program like AutoCAD created by them. Students and educators can get free one-year educational access to Autodesk products and services, renewable as long as they remain eligible.

Checkout the link:

Autodesk Education & Student Access

6. JetBrains Free Educational Licenses

JetBrains, maker of popular development tools like PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA. It’s hard to forget their tools in order to simultaneously have a productive and fun experience while doing web development, game development, or a side Python project. All of their products are accessible for free for both personal and educational use.

Checkout the link:

Free Educational Licenses — Community Support

7. Canva

Canva is easy to use when we got to do anything related to graphics. Anyone can learn it with the drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts. Millions of photos, icons, fonts, and ready-to-use templates are available in its library with 100GB of cloud storage. Canva Pro also offers font and logo customization. Canva Pro is now available to students for free with the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Checkout the link:

Free Design and Presentation Tool for Students | Canva

8. Figma for Students

Even though Figma is freely accessible to anyone on the internet, it does have a professional plan. This gives you extra benefits like:

  • being able to create private projects.
  • being able to work with teams without limits.
  • being able to share private prototypes with clients and also get access to the audio conversion feature.

Check out the link:

Figma for students and educators page.

9. Prezi

If you want to create stunning presentations, check out Prezi if you haven’t already. Prezi enables you to make presentations with Zooming User Interface (ZUI). It has exclusive features and excellent tools to aid you in making presentations. You can upgrade your account for unlimited storage and powerful features and avail of special discounts with your Edu mail.

Check out the link:

Prezi for Education | Presentation Software for Teachers and Students

10. Bitbucket

It gives free unlimited private repositories for student developers and teachers.

# Share code with your teachers and peers.

Whether adding members to your group project or giving teachers access to your code, it’s easy to add unlimited academic collaborators to your repositories.

# Save your classwork, securely.

While sharing is caring, there are times you need to prevent who can see your code. Sign up with your academic email and store all of your code in private repositories — you decide who has access to your work.

# Organize your code with unlimited repositories.

Create unlimited private repositories for all of your classes, assignments, and labs. Your code is available everywhere you go.

Check out the link:

https://bitbucket.org/product/education

11. LastPass

You can save your passwords in an encrypted environment using LastPass, a password management tool. By doing this, you may avoid the hassle of keeping your passwords in a vulnerable place like a notepad or sticky note. You just have to remember a master password, that’s it.

Checkout the link:

Education | Lastpass

12. Roboform

It is quite comparable to LastPass, with the exception that you can use all the premium features for free for the first six months of your college or university enrollment.

Checkout the link:

RoboForm for college students

13. Evernote Premium

Evernote is a cloud-based note-taking program that syncs all of your notes across devices and offers tools to make note-taking and studying easier.

Checkout the link:

Exclusive 40% off Evernote Professional for Students

14. LucidChart

LucidChart provides end-to-end visual flowcharts to help teams of any size collaborate and see where they are today and where they need to go in the future. It is completely free for students and teachers.

Create a free account here and click on Get your free educational upgrade to avail of the offer.

15. Squarespace

Want to host a website for your college project? Or do you need a portfolio or a blog website? Then Squarespace is a perfect place for you.

Checkout the link:

Student Pricing & Discounts — Squarespace for Students

16. Wix

Another website builder is wix.com, whether it is an online portfolio, a small store, a blog or you just need a logo for your side project Wix got your back.

Checkout the link:

Wix for Students

17. Amazon Prime Student Pack

Amazon Prime consists of many benefits like getting 2 days of confirmed delivery of Amazon products without any shipping charges, unlimited movies and TV shows on Prime Videos, unlimited ad-free music streaming on Prime Music, and much more. Amazon offers 6 months of a trial of Amazon Prime to students and other students with exclusive deals free of cost.

Checkout the link:

Avail Amazon Prime Student Pack here

18. Spotify Premium

Spotify provides streaming of millions of songs and music tracks for free with ads. In the Premium version, Spotify removes these ads and gives other features like offline streaming, better quality, and playlists based on moods. Students get a 50% discount on using their Edu account for signing up.

Checkout the link:

Premium for Students — Spotify (BD)

19. YouTube Premium Student Plan

YouTube launched their Premium service this year with ads free streaming on YouTube and YouTube Music with other features on their mobile app like background streaming and Picture and Picture mode. They have exclusive services for students as well at a discounted price.

Checkout the link:

Avail YouTube Premium Student Plan here

Note: Currently, it is not available in our country(BD).

20. Ableton

Ableton makes software and hardware for music creation and performance. Their flagship products Live, Push and Link help communities deliver amazing performances across the world since 1999. Ableton gives a 40% discount on Live for students and teachers.

Checkout the link:

Get Live at 40% discount here

21. Lenovo Student Discounts

Lenovo makes smartphones and laptops in a wide variety of ranges for both office use and enthusiasts. Students get exclusive discounts and zero-interest EMI on Lenovo Laptops.

Checkout the link:

Register here to avail the offer

Note: I am not sure whether this benefit is available in Bangladesh or not.

22. HP Students Store

HP is giving away 50% off to students on printers, accessories, and monitors on buying an HP PC.

Checkout the link:

Register here at HP Students Store

Note: I am not sure whether this benefit is available in Bangladesh or not.

23. Samsung Education Discount Program

Get a 10% education discount on almost all Samsung products and up to 40% off on smartphones, laptops, tablets, and other accessories.

Checkout the link:

See all the discounted Samsung products here

Note: I am not sure whether this benefit is available in Bangladesh or not.

Some other benefits:

  • Dropbox This service is very useful to anyone who has lots of files they want to store in the cloud. While anyone can get a free Dropbox account, there are limits on how much storage you get. With an Edu email, you get an extra 500 MB of space, which translates to lots of photos or documents.
  • Coursera Campus Plan If your institute has been registered on the Coursera campus plan, you can take 1 course each year and many projects for free from Coursera.
  • Norton — Students can purchase some of the best-known anti-virus software and other programs at a 50% discount.
  • Apple Music — Try out Apple Music for free for three months and get 50% off afterward with an Edu email. If you are an existing client, you can still change the membership type to a student. Read here for more details.
  • Apple — You may be able to get discounts on many desirable Apple products with an Edu email account. You can save up to $200 on Apple computers.
  • Newegg — The first year of Newegg Premier is free once you provide your .edu email address, and 50% off afterward. The premier benefits of this computer hardware and software retailer are similar to Prime benefits in Amazon.
  • Best Buy — Best Buy offers exclusive deals for college students, once you sign up and confirm your Edu email.
  • Web Hosting — Many web hosting services provide a 50% discount to Edu email account holders. Notable ones are Dreamhost, Bluehost, Inmotion Hosting, and Siteground. Namecheap will give you a free.ME domain and other perks here.
  • Powtoon — Students and teachers alike can now create beautifully animated videos and presentations they could use to make learning fun and engaging. You can try it for free or check out their premium accounts exclusive for educators and students.
  • Grammarly Education — Grammarly education is almost equal to Grammarly premium, which you can avail of with your Edu mail for free.
  • Notion premium- Notion is one of the best tools for productivity. It provides you with many tools like Making a ToDo, also saves any webpage page, and a lot more than that. I started using the notion in 2020. And I can surely say that it’s a great tool to organize our life.
  • GitlabOnly faculty or staff employed full-time at an Educational Institution can apply. And applicants must apply with the email domain of their representative institution. Personal email domains will not be accepted.

Courtesy:

  1. Top 20 benefits of having an .edu Email Address | by Vinayak Tekade | Coder’s Capsule | Medium
  2. 20 Amazing Discounts You Can Get With a Free EDU Email Address
  3. Top 70+ Free Benefits Of Edu Email Account — 2022
  4. Top Benefits of a Student Email Address
  5. Top 10+ Excellent Benefits of.Edu Email Address in 2022
  6. Top 50+ Free Benefits Of Edu Email Account In 2021 — Glowpedia
  7. What are the Benefits of Student/EDU Email ID?| Unlimited Google Drive | Shreyas GV

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