Microsoft Grants Free Office 365 Access To Students And Teachers Worldwide

American companies tend to reserve their best promotional offers for their U.S.-based customers, and if they’re lucky, to our northern neighbors in Canada. Microsoft has offered Office 365 free to students in the U.S. since September 2014.

Microsoft announced this week that millions of students and teachers around the world will now be eligible to sign up to receive Office 365 for free — there’s a rather extensive list of supported countries and languages that you can view here. There’s just one catch, however, and it’s a pretty big one. Schools first need to buy Office 365 subscriptions for faculty and staff. Only then will teachers and students be granted access to their free subscription to Office 365.

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To take advantage of the offer, students and teachers are required to enter their school-provided email address at Microsoft’s offer page — students visit this page, while teachers can go here. Once signed up, teachers and students who qualify can access:

  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access and Publisher (can be installed on five PCs/Macs and five mobile devices)
  • 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage
  • Access to Office Online

Be sure to check out Microsoft’s offer page to see if your institution qualifies.

Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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