The best deals and freebies for college kids

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Angela Lang/CNET During the college years -- when you're probably paying out way more than you're taking in -- getting a few financial breaks can make a substantial difference in your monthly budget. Thankfully, students qualify for discounts -- some significant -- on a variety of products and services, everything from Microsoft Office to Hulu to Spotify Premium. And to score those deals, you usually just need to show you're enrolled in a school, either with an .edu email account or through a validation service such as SheerID and Unidays. Beyond the deals listed below, ask at your student bookstore for discounts on devices and software. And if you live on campus, check with your school's housing department to see which streaming services -- such as HBO Now -- may be available to you at no additional charge. In the meantime, we've assembled this list of some of our favorite student deals and freebies. While you're at it, be sure to check out our suggestions for best apps for college students to save money and time. Note that CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of any products featured on our site. Showtime, like CNET, is a division of CBS. Student discounts on entertainment These popular music (and, in some cases, video) streaming services give you break on subscriptions. YouTube Premium: $6.99 per month Normally $11.99 per month, YouTube Premium is a two-fer: You get ad-free YouTube videos (including the option to download them for offline viewing) and unlimited access to YouTube Music, which is basically YouTube's answer to Spotify. (Google Play Music is included as well, in case you're already using that service and prefer to stick with it.) Just want YouTube Music? It's $4.99 per month for students (regularly $9.99). Both options allow for a free 3-month trial. See at YouTube Amazon Music Unlimited: 99 cents per month Amazon Not to be confused with the Prime Music benefit that's included with an Amazon Prime subscription (or Prime Student; see below), Music Unlimited is Amazon's full-on, massive-library music service that rivals the likes of Apple Music and Spotify. But anyone who has a Prime Student subscription can get Music Unlimited for just 99 cents per month -- by far the cheapest music-streaming option anywhere. See at Amazon Apple Music Student subscription: $4.99 per month Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET In addition to hardware discounts (see below), Apple offers its Music subscription service at half price for students. That subscription nets you access to some 50 million songs, and of course, it's accessible on all your Apple devices. See at Apple Spotify Premium for Students: $4.99 per month Includes Hulu and Showtime! Angela Lang/CNET Arguably the best student - http://search.about.com/?q=student deal in the history of student deals, Spotify offers a $5 ad-free plan that includes both Hulu and Showtime. Nonstudents pay a minimum of $10, $6 and $11 per month, for a grand total of $27. That's an awful lot of entertainment for $5. if you already have a premium account, it's easy enough to convert to the student version. If you are part of a family plan, however, check if it would be cheaper for the family to keep you on the $14.99 plan or have you break off. See at Spotify Student discounts on money management If there's one thing most students could use a hand with, it's managing money. You Need a Budget: First year free You Need a Budget You Need a Budget (YNAB) offers a wealth of tools and classes to that end. It normally costs $84 per year, but as a student you can get the first year absolutely free. See at You Need a Budget Bank of America Student Banking: No monthly fees James Martin/CNET Financial institutions may offer student deals as well. Bank of America, for example, will waive monthly fees if you do all your banking through its banking app - http://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=banking%20app and ATM. See at Bank of America Wells Fargo Student Checking: No monthly fees Wells Fargo Wells Fargo offers a similar deal to Bank of America's and will waive monthly fees for students 17 to 24 years old. See at Wells Fargo Student discounts on apps and software While you may be able to get software at a discount through your school's bookstore, you won't do any better than free. Office 365 Education: Free Microsoft Microsoft has Office Home & Student for $149. But you can do better than that with the free Office 365 Education, which gives you access to the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams (the latter potentially useful for organizing and executing group projects) and other Office apps for free. All that's required is a valid school email address. For $30 a year, you can get the desktop version of the productivity suite, too. See at Microsoft Evernote Premium: $4 per month for the first year Evernote Evernote gives students 50 percent off the premium version for a year. That works out to $4 a month for industrial-strength note taking. The offer is good for one year, however, and then the price goes to the regular $7.99 a month. See at Evernote SoftMaker: Free for schools and teachers SoftMaker Unfortunately, while Microsoft rival SoftMaker offers its full SoftMaker Office 2018 suite free for schools and teachers, students no longer have the option of purchasing it at a discount. Too bad -- I liked the idea of a lifetime license for just $10. See at SoftMaker Student discounts on shopping and tech From Amazon to Groupon, you can save up to 50 percent on services and devices. Amazon Prime Student: $59 per year Amazon With an Amazon Prime Student membership, you can all get the benefits of a Prime subscription for half the price of the regular service. The student program includes free two-day shipping, video streaming via Prime Video, Prime Music (after the six-month trial), and unlimited online photo storage through Prime Photos. Prime Student starts with a free six-month trial, and then goes for $59 a year (half the $119 cost of a regular Prime subscription). You can participate for four years. And if you rent or buy or sell textbooks through the Amazon textbook store, you can get free two-day shipping on those, too. See at Amazon Apple discounts and bundles Apple Apple has long offered price breaks for students, including a half-price Apple Music subscription (see above) and discounts on iPads and Macs. One deal that's available now: Buy a Mac or iPad (at education pricing) and get a free Beats Studio3 Wireless headphone. Students can also save 20% on an AppleCare warranty program. See at Apple Best Buy Best Buy Best Buy offers student savings on a wide variety of products, from laptops to TVs to mini fridges. To get the discounts (which in some cases can be applied to existing sale prices), you need to create or sign into your My Best Buy account, then sign up for student deals. Thankfully, you don't need an .edu email address, and in fact you don't actually have to be a student; parents of college and K-12 students can sign up as well. 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If you're thinking about a Surface product for school, it might be worth visiting a brick-and-mortar Microsoft store to see if there's really a student disco <b See at Microsoft Have you found any other great college deals to share? List them in the comme <b This story was originally posted previously, and has been updated with additional de <b CNET's Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. 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