The best student discounts we found for 2024

As a student, it’s often hard to enjoy the best years of your life when you’re scrounging every dollar for books, supplies, food, and the occasional outing with friends. But there’s a silver lining: student discounts! Here are some of the best deals we could find on useful services and things you’ll enjoy in your downtime.

Amazon

If you’re not piggybacking off your parents’ Amazon Prime account, you can have the subscription for less while you’re in school. College students can get Prime Student for free for six months, then it costs only $69 per year, which includes the same perks as regular Prime, including free two-day shipping, free same-day delivery in select areas, and access to the entire Prime Video library.

Students get Prime for less

Best Buy

While it doesn’t offer a specific student discount, Best Buy has a student deal hub page where you can find gadgets on sale. You’ll find discounts on laptops, headphones, monitors, software, and more. Best Buy also has a tool that will help you find the right computer for your needs, just by answering a few questions.

Best Buy’s student deal hub

Apple

Apple offers deals to students and educators in the form of knocking down the prices of its most popular laptops and tablets. For example, right now students can get a MacBook Air M3 starting at $999, which is $100 less than the normal starting price, and the latest iPad Airs start at $549, which represents a $50 discount.

Get an Apple device for less

And so on…

Mindfulness and Productivity

• Headspace is just one of many meditation and mindfulness apps available, but it stands apart with an excellent student discount: $10 for the entire year, or $60 less than a normal annual membership.

Meditate your way to focus

Software and Tools

• If you’re studying anything related to digital art or design, you’re probably using Adobe products. Adobe Creative Cloud is the industry standard in this space, but the entire suite of programs is quite expensive at $53 per month. Thankfully, Adobe has education pricing for students that drops the entire creative suite to $20 per month for the first year.

Get Adobe for less

Writing and Design

• Dashlane offers one year of its Premium plan for free to all students with a valid university email address. It’s one of our top picks in our best password managers guide thanks to its easy-to-use apps and focus on secure sharing.

Secure your passwords

and so on…

News

You shouldn’t rely on social media to be your sole source of news. With foreign wars, new viruses, Supreme Court decisions, and upcoming elections making headlines daily, it’s important to get your news from reliable sources.

Here are some reputable news organizations that offer student discounts on their monthly or annual subscription plans:

• The Atlantic: Starts at $45 per year for digital-only access.
• The New York Times: $6 every four weeks for a base subscription.
• The Washington Post: $1 every four weeks for digital-only access.
• The Wall Street Journal: Starting at $4 every four weeks for the WSJ Digital pack.

Stay informed for less