If y'all're heading off to university, you volition accept plenty of lectures and essays to proceed you decorated. However, you lot tin too accept reward of the Amazon Prime Student scheme to get the subscription service at a hefty discount.

Amazon Prime as well has other perks such as Prime Video - hither'south everything you need to know.

What is Amazon Prime number Student?

As the name suggests, this is a version of Amazon Prime number aimed specifically at those in full-fourth dimension college teaching. So, for a reduced monthly fee of £three.99/$half-dozen.49 per month, students will take access to the Prime Video, Prime Music and Prime Reading services. They besides do good from gratuitous and fast delivery on items in the Amazon shop marked with Prime number, 10% off textbooks, plus photo storage on Amazon Drive and early access to lightning deals.

Students in the USA take even further enticements, such as membership of Twitch TV, Prime number Gaming, and the ability to hire textbooks.

Amazon Prime Student includes complimentary one-24-hour interval delivery on millions of items (one-mean solar day for United kingdom students, unlimited two-Day delivery for students in the Republic of Republic of ireland). Members as well become sectional discounts and admission to premium content such as music, movies and TV shows.

Am I eligible for Amazon Prime Educatee?

Signing upward for Amazon Prime Educatee requires you to accept an Amazon account (patently), or create one. The sign-up procedure will ask for a valid university e-mail accost (ends with "air-conditioning.uk" in the Great britain, or ".edu" in the United states of america) which volition be verified. The sign-upwardly procedure will likewise request your expected graduation twelvemonth and a method of payment (credit or debit).

You lot as well accept to exist 18 or older, which is something of a blow for higher students, but we're guessing that the calculation is that they volition even so live at dwelling and do good from their parents' Amazon Prime account.

To prove that yous're a electric current student, you'll demand your academic email address and be able to verify your status such equally sending a photo of your student ID card. If you oasis't been issued an email address, you tin still employ by sending other proof of enrolment to [e-mail protected].

These include scans of NUS Extra or NUS Apprentice Extra cards, a copy of the alphabetic character of enrolment from the university or academic body, a bill for tuition costs or other correspondence from the college or university confirming your educatee status.

For additional details most the sign-up process if you're a educatee in the UK, Amazon has a dedicated folio you can access here. US students tin can find the equivalent folio here.

How to sign up to Amazon Prime number Educatee

Click here for the Amazon Prime Student UK sign up page. US students can sign up here.

Log into your account when prompted. And so search for Prime number Educatee. On the page in that location should exist an choice to Try Prime Student. Select this selection, enter your academic email address and specify the year when you are due to graduate. The latter is then that Amazon tin transfer your Prime Student account to a standard Prime one when you cease your studies.

How can you lot go Amazon Prime Pupil for free?

Yous should now see a Start Trial button. At the time of writing, Microsoft had sponsored new student accounts so that they wouldn't have to pay for the get-go vi-months of membership.

By comparing, a regular Prime membership only allows up to 30 days in the trial version.

After six months, if you cull to keep your Prime Educatee membership, you only pay £39/$59 per twelvemonth, or £3.99/$6.49 per month, which is one-half of the regular Prime subscription price.

Sign upwardly for Amazon Prime Student here or here if you're in the Us.

Tin you cancel afterwards the six-month free trial?

Of grade, being a educatee means y'all're on a tight budget. If that £3.99/$6.49 per calendar month is eating into your funds, you lot can cancel anytime.

What do you get with Amazon Prime number Student?

Amazon Prime isn't simply a style to get major discounts just also a way to get exclusive and unlimited access to books, magazines, music, movies, shows and unlimited cloud storage for photos.

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video - movies and TV shows on-demand

Amazon Prime Educatee includes Prime Video, the premium content subscription service which you can access via a Burn down TV Stick (£39.99/$39.99 in the Us), or any smart device. Yous tin can download the free Prime Video app for iOS here here and for Android here.

If you want to know what's on, encounter our circular upward of the best movies available on Prime Video this calendar month. We've also rounded up the all-time Boob tube shows on Prime number Video.

Prime Reading - unlimited access to books, comics, and magazines

Prime Reading

Amazon Prime number Student membership also gets you unlimited access to thousands of books, electric current magazines, comic books, Kindle Singles and plenty of other content via Prime number Reading. The access is unlimited and you don't need a separate Kindle e-reader to view the content – only the free Kindle app which you can download here for iOS and hither for Android. Of class, the app comes pre-installed on all Amazon Fire tablets.

Through First Reads, Prime members likewise get an avant-garde sneak peek at select books chosen by Amazon editors before the book is officially released.

Learn more about Prime Reading here.

Prime Music - ad-free, curated music

Amazon Prime Music

An Amazon Prime number Student account also includes access to Prime Music, which gives you access to 2 one thousand thousand songs, advertisement-free. Y'all tin listen on-demand and download songs and albums to heed offline also.

For fifty-fifty more music, there's the boosted serviceAmazonMusic Unlimited, which gets you lot admission to xl million songs and is constantly updated with the latest hits and releases. Typically, Amazon Music Unlimited costs £9.99/$9.99 per month and Prime members pay £vii.99/$7.99 per month. Prime Student members, however, become the service for nominal rate of£4.99/month in UK or $iv.99/month in the U.s. under the Educatee Program.

See more about about Amazon Music Unlimited. You can currently get three months for free.

Lightning Deals - sectional Prime number early on access to limited-time offers

Of course, one of the principal benefits of having an Amazon Prime number Student account is to access exclusive deals and discounts. Amazon's Lightning Deals are temporary flash sales that happen one time a mean solar day. The deals are often timed or last until at that place is still stock available.

The reward of a Prime number membership is that you take access to Lightning Deals thirty minutes ahead of anyone else, which means yous can avoid the rat race of getting those headphones or gaming keyboards earlier they're all out.

Sign up for Amazon Prime Student here or here if y'all're in the Us.

Prime number Photos - secure, unlimited photo storage

Amazon Prime Photo

As a student, running out of photo storage infinite on your telephone becomes inevitable. With an Amazon Prime number Educatee account, you also become Prime Photos, which gives y'all unlimited storage infinite. You tin continue all your pictures in ane place and you don't have to downsize them to a lower resolution.

Prime number Photo lets you admission your photos from anywhere and from any device (your desktop, iOS or Android devices), and share your photos too. Click here to get the Prime Photos app for Windows, Mac, Android or iOS.

Amazon Prime Student vs Amazon Prime

With an Amazon Prime number Student account, you substantially get all the perks of a regular Prime business relationship, but at one-half the price of a regular membership. Additionally, y'all get a 6-calendar month free trial instead of a thirty-day trial.

How much does Amazon Prime number Pupil cost?

Amazon Prime Student

Y'all can subscribe to Amazon Prime number Student on a monthly or annual basis. A monthly subscription costs £3.99/$6.49 per month, whereas an annual subscription costs £39/$59 per yr. The annual charge per unit works out at £3.25/$4.92 per calendar month, and then you would in fact be saving with an almanac rate even if you pay more upfront.

Sign upwards for the Britain Amazon Prime Educatee hither or hither if you're in the US.