Apple student discounts

If you’ve just entered university or have been studying for some time, you’re bound to need or want to replace your computer equipment, but making an investment in this isn’t easy, as prices are often a bit steep. Apple student discounts are an easy way to save money on the electronic tools you need to study and learn.

Apple has a number of discounts for students that many people are unaware of, because the brand promotes them as special education prices. This is not a discount that applies to all Apple products, they are promotions that are given to a small selection of products that are very useful for higher education students.

What products will you be able to get a discount on?

Apple’s student discounts give you access to an exclusive selection of Macs to make studying much easier, with guaranteed free software updates on an ongoing basis. Similarly, a large number of applications are available to students for educational activities, including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud.

The Macs available at the special price are:

• Mac Pro
• Mac Mini
• Macbook Air
• Macbook Pro
• iMac and iMac Pro

The discounted iPads are:

• iPad
• iPad Pro
• iPad Mini
• iPad Air

In addition, you can also get a student discount on Apple Music, just pay 50% of the monthly fee and get the Apple TV+ plan completely free.

Discount amount

The discount will depend solely on the device you wish to purchase, with the more expensive devices offering students a larger discount than the cheaper devices. These vary slightly, but are roughly estimated to be as follows:

• Apple student discounts on iPad: between 5% and 8%.
• Apple student discounts for Macs: 10%.
• Apple student discounts on accessories: between 8% and 10%.

Discount requirements

In order to purchase an Apple computer or tablet and benefit from the student discount, there is a basic requirement to prove that you are a student or teacher. For this, Apple offers the Unidays platform where people register and start enjoying the discount.

All students over the age of 16 who are studying technical or university studies can access this discount, only an institutional email address or an official ID from the university where they are studying is required.

Apply for the discount: Unidays

Unidays is a platform created especially to offer discounts to university students. Registration is free and very simple.

Once the account is created, you must verify that you are a student. So you must locate the enrolment and the university, establishing in which institution you are enrolled and accessing the Apple Store for education.

Best of all, you also get discounts on brands other than Apple, which means there are many more benefits just for signing up to the Unidays platform.

Limits and conditions with purchase

Apple limits the number of products you can buy with the discount, this is to avoid fraudulent practices. Therefore, you must choose very carefully which item you need for the school year.

In the case of desktop computers, only one of each category can be purchased during the year, and in the case of accessories and the iPad, up to 2 can be purchased per year.

Students can buy more products at the Apple Store, but these no longer have the special student discount price, but are paid for at the normal retail price. In addition, some Apple products do not fall under the Apple student discount for any reason, as they are not considered essential and educational, such as:

• iPhone
• AirPods
• Apple TV
• Apple Watch
• HomePods