Best services providing student discounts one must try

A student ID 💳 is a key 🔑 that unlocks 🔐 several deals and free stuff 🎉 that can make life better. This is a list of the best services that offer student discounts that students must try.

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• Collective discounts
• Electronic devices
• Productivity apps
• Software
• Developer Services
• Music
• Shipping
• Insurance
• Newspaper Subscription
• Hotel
• Travel
• Food
• Apparel
• Vehicles
• Courses
• Entertainment
• Lens and spectacles
• Web hosting
• Domain name

Collective discounts

• International Student Identity Card: Any full-time student over 12 years old qualifies for 42,000 discounts in 130 countries

• GitHub Student Developer Pack: Discounts on several software products offered through Github

• Student Advantage Card: Save money on over 100 national brands on a variety of products

• AWS Educate: credits to access AWS services for free. Free labs on services such as EC2, S3, and others

• Microsoft Education: Free Micrsoft Office 365 and other discounts on MS products

• Amazon Prime Student: a six-month trial that includes Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited streaming of Amazon Prime movies and TV shows, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Prime Photos, 20% off pre-order and new release video games, exclusive deals and savings, and more! 50% off after the six-month trial period

• Microsoft Imagine: pack of Microsoft cloud services like Azure, for deploying projects, free for students.

Electronic devices

• Apple: Students and educators save 5% off most purchases; save up to $200 on a new Mac or a new iPad with Apple’s Education pricing.

• Microsoft: Save up to $194 on a Surface Pro 3, get 10% off accessories, and get special pricing on software.

• Adobe: Full-time students can receive discounts on software like 60% off Creative Cloud

• Dell: offers discounts on laptops, desktops, and more

• Lenovo: Lenovo has an Academic Purchase Program that offers student discounts on laptops, tablets, and desktop computers. Discounts vary depending on your school.

• Sony: Through Sony Student Store membership, get 10% off merchandise

• Logitech: Students can get 25% off purchases at Logitech.com

Productivity apps

• Evernote: One year of the premium plan for 50% off

• Microsoft Office 365: Free for students

• Ulysses: Almost 50% on a subscription

Software

Version control

• Tower - Version control with git. Students get a 50% discount

• GitKraken PRO - Free for 1 year via GitHub Student Developer Pack

Design and modeling tools

• Sketch - 50% off on an educational license

• Axure RP: Free educational license of Axure RP Pro

• Vertabelo: Free academic accounts for students

• Framer: 50% off on an educational license

• Lucidchart: Free professional software for DFDs,flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, UML designs, mind maps, software prototypes, and many other diagram types (Use learner college student id to get unlimited access)

Game Development Tools

• Unity3D: Students are offered a yearly license for $100 USD

• Unreal Game Engine: Free through Github Student Developer Pack

IDE and Code Editing

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2015: Free for students

• Xamarin IDE: Free for students

• Bootstrap Studio: Free for students

• JetBrains Pack: Free professional IDEs for C/C++/Python/Java/JS/PHP/Ruby/etc for students

3D Animation and Modeling Software

• Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate: 3-Year free License for students

Visual Analytics

• CartoDB: Additional space & features for free accounts or 20% discount on paid accounts

• Tableau Desktop: One Year free Professional License for Students

• SAS University Edition: Free for students

Developer Services

• HackHands: $25 in platform credit to students via Github Student Developer Pack

• Amazon Web Services - free by joining AWS Educate today

• Send Grid - 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) via Github Student Developer Pack

• Adobe Creative Cloud - 60% off for students

• Domino Cloud Environment - free computational power to work on data science projects

Music

• Spotify: $4.99/month for students

• Apple Music: Discount for 4 years

• Cascio Interstate Music: 10% off orders over $69

• Ableton Live: 40% Discont for full time students

Shipping

• FedEx: Discount of 30% off a document with FedEx Envelop/Pak and 20% off a package with FedEx IP service

Insurance

• StateFarm: 25% off on keeping good grades

• Geico: Students under 25 with good grades can get up to a 15% discount

Newspaper Subscription

• Wall Street Journal: $49 a year

• NewYork Times: $1 a week

• Economist: Discount varies on plan

Hotel

• Planet Hollywood: 15% off on rooms

• Harrah's Laughlin: 15% off on bookings

Travel

• Eurail: 35% off the regular Adult Fare for students under 25

• Amtrak: 10% off on train and bus service

• Budget Truck Rental: Up to 20% off truck rental

• METROLINK: 25% off Monthly Pass, 7-Day Pass, One-Way and Round-Trip tickets

Food

• Arby’s: Offers a 10% discount at certain locations with your student ID

• Buffalo Wild Wings: Get a 10% discount off those flaming wings with your student ID

• Burger King: 10% discount when you flash your ID

• Chick-fil-A: Get a free small drink to accompany your chicken sandwich and waffle fries (or any meal) when you show your ID

• Chipotle: Offers a free small drink with your meal when you show your student ID

• Dairy Queen: Offers a 10% discount for students with ID.

• McDonalds: 10% discount with your student ID

• Qdoba: Offers a free drink for students when you purchase a meal, as well as burrito meals for $5

Apparel

• Alex and Ani: Students get 10% off in stores with a when you flash a valid school ID.

• ASOS: Stay stylish with 10% off ASOS duds

• Banana Republic, J.Crew, The Limited, Medelita, Madewell: 15% off

• Club Monaco: 20% off regular and sale priced items in any Club Monaco store and online

• Goodwill: 10% discount with student ID

• TOMS: 10% cash back on shoes

• Topshop: 10% off Topshop apparel in stores and online

Vehicles

• Chevrolet: Discounts available on selected models for professors and students

• GM: Discounts available on selected models of 3 brands

Courses

• Faltiron School: Free one-month membership ($149 value) to Community-Powered Bootcamp

• Thinkful: One month of access to a web development course

Entertainment

• Cinemark: Get discounts on movie tickets; 25% OFF pre-paid movie tickets through SA card

• Regal Cinemas: Find local theaters offering student discounts

Lens and spectacles

• Glasses USA: 55% off frames with clear single-vision lenses

• Lenstore.co.uk: 15% off on the first order

Web Hosting

• Digital Ocean - Provides $50 in hosting credit for every student that signs up for the Github Student Developer Pack

• Gwiddle - Provides hosting for 2 websites, 5 mail accounts, 4 MySQL DBs, 4 cron jobs, 1.5GB bandwidth, and 2GB diskspace free to verified students.

• RoseHosting - Offers a recurring 20% discount on all their managed Linux VPS and Shared hosting plans when paying monthly. Students can use the discount by applying the coupon code STUDENT20.

Domain Name

• NameCheap - One year of free domain name registration on the .me TLD ($18.99/year) via Github Student Developer Pack

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