When you go to college your most likely given a .edu email, this email address is your key to thousands of dollars worth of free software now that you're a student!

GitHub Student Developer

You get all of this for free! (Hint: click "GitHub Student Developer")

Atom (Text Editor, free)

Bitnami: Business 3 (Cloud apps, $49/month)*

CrowdFlower + $50 credit (Data mining, $2,500/month)

DigitalOcean (Cloud Hosting, $100 credit)

DNSimple (DNS Managment, $3/month)**

GitHub Micro (5 Private Repos, $7/month)

HackHands (24/7 Programming Support, $25 credit)

Namecheap (.me domain, $9/year)*

Namecheap (SSL cert, $9/year)*

Orchestrate (Database API, $49/month)

Screenhero (Screensharing, $9.99/month)

SendGrid (Email SAAS, $4.95/month)*

Stripe (Payment System, $1,000 credit)

Tracvis CI (Cont. Integration Platform, $69/month)

Unreal Engine 4 (Game Dev Tools, $19/month)

*One Year



**Two Years

ReSharper (Productivity tool for .NET)

dotTrace (.NET Performace Profiler)

dotCover (.NET Code Coverage Tool)

dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler)

IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE)

RubyMine (Ruby on Rail IDE)

PyCharm (Python/Django IDE)

CLion (C/C++ IDE)

PhpStorm (PHP IDE)

WebStorm (JavaScript IDE)

AppCode (Objective-C IDE)

AutoDesk

Way too many to mention, pretty much everything AutoDesk offers is free to students

Inventor (Mechanical CAD)

Maya (3D Modeler)

3ds Max (3D Modeler)

AutoCad (CAD)

Fusion 360 (Tool combining design with collaboration)

Revit (BIM tools)

Much, much more!

This isn't all there is, there are tons of other software out there free or discounted to students.