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Editor’s note, July 23, 2025, 1:45 pm ET: On July 23, Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison, having pled guilty to all four murders. With the deal, he avoided the death penalty but also waived his right to appeal. When asked to give a statement, Kohberger told the court, “I respectfully decline,” seemingly sealing his decision not to explain his motive. The story below was originally published on July 14.

When Bryan Kohberger entered a guilty plea on July 2 in the case of four murdered Idaho students, it brought an abrupt conclusion to one of the biggest true crime sagas in decades, but it has arguably left the public with more questions than answers. Soon, a new wave of true crime content, including two documentaries and a major book co-written by James Patterson, will attempt to answer those questions.

Kohberger’s trial, previously scheduled to begin in August, would likely have surfaced much more information regarding the killings of Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison “Maddie” Mogen, and Xana Kernodle — students at the University of Idaho in small-town Moscow, Idaho, slaughtered in a late-night off-campus home invasion so horrific that it instantly became global news.

Years of delays in the journey to trial, paired with strict ongoing gag orders in the case, have meant that even three years later, most of what we know about the crime still comes from the initial probable cause affidavit filed against Kohberger prior to his arrest in December 2022, about six weeks after the murders took place on November 13. (He was charged, and eventually pleaded guilty, to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary.) Since then, other pieces to the puzzle have been filled in primarily from anecdotal reports shared by friends and family of the Idaho Four and Kohberger, as well as clues gleaned unofficially from social media accounts and occasional investigation leaks.

The end result is that while the public can play connect-the-dots with much of the information surrounding the Moscow murders, the biggest question of all — why? — remains unanswered.

Here’s a look at what we know so far, what we’re likely to learn from upcoming media in the case, and what’s next for the players in this awful saga.

Why Kohberger pleaded guilty: He was out of moves

Given that Kohberger staunchly maintained his innocence for nearly three years, his sudden reversal might have come as a surprise to anyone not following the court proceedings closely. In fact, it may have been inevitable.

After stalling the judicial process for years, Kohberger’s defense team had swiftly been running out of plays following a series of judicial rulings favoring the prosecution and limiting the defense’s strategies. These included the court rejecting a potential alibi defense — with Judge Steven Hippler ruling that Kohberger’s claim to have been driving around looking at the stars during the time of the murders was not actually an alibi — and rejecting a potential alternate suspect defense, with Hippler dismissing the defense’s coterie of alternate perpetrators as “rank speculation.” With few other moves left, Kohberger faced a mountain of overwhelming evidence, including his DNA on the knife sheath left at the crime scene, phone records tracking him at the location and across town the night of the crime, and a recently revealed second eyewitness, a Door Dash driver who delivered a meal to Xana Kernodle and claims to have seen Kohberger at the 1122 King Road address just before the murders.

Kohberger’s guilty plea — which prosecutors shared directly with the victims’ families before the news broke on June 30 — allows him to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 23, where, per the terms of the agreement, he will receive four consecutive life sentences on the murder counts and the maximum penalty of 10 years on the burglary count. But while avoiding a trial means avoiding trauma for witnesses and victims’ families, not everyone is happy about this outcome. The family of Kaylee Goncalves, in particular, has been vocal in their displeasure that Kohberger will not have to stand trial or face the death penalty, though other victims’ families, including that of Goncalves’s lifelong best friend Mogen, have stated their support for the plea deal.

Onlookers hoping that Kohberger’s plea deal might yield some new insight were left disappointed when his plea hearing included no additional admissions from Kohberger about why he committed the crime, whether he premeditated any or all of the acts, or why he apparently chose to leave the two remaining housemates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, alive.

In the absence of any official answers, and without a trial to provide them, the public will instead be getting a deluge of new media about the case, most of it releasing in mid-July, originally intended to drop just before Kohberger’s trial. Instead, what we have left is a fairly broad spectrum of journalism around the case, ranging from investigative reporting via Dateline to interview-heavy streaming documentaries from Amazon and Peacock to classic true crime narrative nonfiction via mega-bestseller Patterson and his co-writer, British journalist Vicky Ward. Additionally, media outlets have asked the judge to lift the remaining gag orders in the case, so that witnesses and authorities who have been banned from speaking until the trial might finally have a chance to do so.

The lack of a trial “makes it all the more consequential,” Patterson’s publicist told me in an email. “The book now is the only chance people will get to delve into what happened that night.”

What did happen that night? Here’s what we know so far, and what we’re likely to learn from July’s new onslaught of updates.

What’s new: Perspectives from the victims’ families and friends — and chilling insight into Kohberger

During the six-week national manhunt for the perpetrator, the roommates, friends, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, and family members of the Idaho Four were put through the ringer in terms of public scrutiny and speculation. The new cache of media puts this community front and center and allows them to talk about their experiences. Among them is One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, a new Amazon Prime docuseries released on July 11, co-directed by documentarian Liz Garbus, who more recently helmed a documentary about the Gilgo Beach killer for Netflix.

Over four 60-minute episodes, Garbus and her co-director Matthew Galkin focus on the stories of the victims’ friends and families, including heartbreaking details from family interviews, like Ethan Chapin’s siblings — now the remaining two triplets — spending their last night with him together at a sorority formal just hours before his death. A second documentary for Peacock, The Idaho Student Murders, premiered the day after Kohberger pleaded guilty. It similarly gathers friends and family together to remember Ethan, Kaylee, Maddie, and Xana while opening up about their own trauma and loss.

Then there’s The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, the book by Ward and Patterson, due out today. While Patterson co-authors the book, it’s Ward who has done the bulk of the investigation, conducting hundreds of interviews in and around Moscow, as well as Kohberger’s home back in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania. The book is a true deep-dive into the case and the context of the murders — as much as any book can be while still obeying the court gag order. Ward spends time early on laying out the complicated dynamics of the King Road friends group, and what a large, interconnected community the four were a part of — a community that was absolutely shattered in the wake of the crime.

While all of this is an important piece of the story, it’s only half. One of the most striking things about the Idaho murders is that the motives of the suspect have, up until now, been largely opaque. What little we know about Kohberger has come mainly from his turbulent academic history. Once a star criminology student who studied under premier true crime writer and forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland (who recently opened up about Kohberger for the very first time in the New York Times), Kohberger moved to Pullman, Washington, near Moscow, Idaho, in the fall of 2022 to do his doctorate at the Washington State University. After becoming a teaching assistant, however, he quickly bottomed out. Over the course of one semester, he was reprimanded, then fired for reportedly grading students too harshly and getting into an altercation with his supervising professor during a performance review. Just over a week after Kohberger was placed on a performance improvement plan, the murders took place.

Still, apart from his academic spiral, up until very recently, there’s been little indication of what, if anything, could have prompted Kohberger’s actions. Even Ramsland, veteran author of books on serial killer psychology, told the New York Times that at first she doubted he could possibly be the culprit.

Recent insight leaked from the investigation to Dateline for a May episode of the show, however, shows that Kohberger had an incriminating search history, including searches for pornography with the keywords “drugged” and “passed out.” He also searched for serial killers like Ted Bundy, though as a criminologist, that might be excusable. Less excusable, however: Dateline’s reveal that according to cell tower records, Kohberger had been in the vicinity of King Road no less than 23 times in four months.

The Idaho Four leans into the idea of Kohberger as an obsessive with dark tendencies. One source — the father of a childhood friend — alleges in the book that as a teen, Kohberger stalked him over a long period of time, frequently breaking into his house and stealing small items that belonged to him. Multiple sources recount Kohberger’s harsh and condescending treatment of female students and his difficulty interacting with women.

Patterson and Ward also hammer home the many similarities between Kohberger and the 2014 Isla Vista mass shooter Elliot Rodger, the patron antihero of the misogynistic incel movement. There’s very little direct evidence that Kohberger was influenced by Rodger, but Ward (who has written about this theory elsewhere) and Patterson draw out every similarity they can, all but implying that Kohberger intentionally styled his murders after the notorious woman hater. There’s been no official confirmation or indication that Kohberger was consciously imitating Rodger.

What we may never really know: Why?

Even factoring in Kohberger’s alleged misogyny, though, none of that exactly answers the question: Why these four students? There’s no evidence that any of the students in the King Road circle knew Kohberger at all. Yet almost since the crimes unfolded, informal suspicion has fallen on Kohberger as being fixated on Maddie Mogen in particular. The most compelling reason for this is that, according to victims’ family and friends, an account believed to belong to Kohberger had allegedly previously liked and followed Mogen’s Instagram posts. Authorities reportedly confirmed that an Instagram account belonging to Kohberger followed the accounts of all three of the women he killed.

At the plea hearing, prosecutors confirmed that when Kohberger broke into the King Road house he went directly upstairs to Mogen’s room, where he also encountered Goncalves. While this still isn’t as satisfying as a confession with a motive coming from Kohberger himself, the implication is that Kohberger had his sights set on Mogen. Her room was easily visible from the street and adjacent parking lots. She was an exposed and vulnerable target.

And so, Goncalves, who no longer even lived at the house but was visiting her best friend, and Chapin and Kernodle, who appear to have been awakened by the struggle upstairs in Mogen’s room, were likely all collateral damage. We may never know why Kohberger spared their roommate Dylan Mortensen, who exited her room and made eye contact with a masked man in a hoodie, with only his eyes and infamous “bushy eyebrows” visible as he walked past her out of the apartment, nor their downstairs roommate, Bethany Funke.

The event — the cruel and seemingly random killing of young people near a college campus, as if ripped from a slasher movie — is almost impossible to comprehend as real life, which was also true as it was unfolding. Once Mortensen, in a panic, ran downstairs to join Funke, the two decided that she must have been exaggerating the whole event. (Mortensen told investigators she had been drunk at the time and unsure if what she’d seen had even been real.) Not even later, as the two of them gradually realized over the course of the next morning that something was very strange, did the two survivors understand what had happened in their house. Not even as they were calling 911, passing the phone around to their equally confused friends.

Even three years later, it’s difficult to understand anything that happened that night in Moscow. The more we learn, the more it becomes clear that no answer will ever truly bring a satisfying end to a truly haunting case.

]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/idaho-college-student-murders-bryan-kohbergers-guilty-plea-leaves-unanswered-questions/feed/ 0 49259 Rümeysa Öztürk: Tufs student is ordered freed after being arrested for an op-ed https://earlybirdsinvest.com/rumeysa-ozturk-tufs-student-is-ordered-freed-after-being-arrested-for-an-op-ed/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/rumeysa-ozturk-tufs-student-is-ordered-freed-after-being-arrested-for-an-op-ed/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 09:06:19 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/rumeysa-ozturk-tufs-student-is-ordered-freed-after-being-arrested-for-an-op-ed/

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Welcome to The Logoff. Patrick Reis is off today: Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by the Trump administration, seemingly just for writing an op-ed. Now, in a scorching new ruling, a federal judge ordered her freed.

What’s the background? Öztürk — a Tufts University PhD student and a Turkish national — was whisked off the streets of Massachusetts by ICE agents in late March. Her arrest was part of the Trump administration effort to revoke visas from students who protested Israel’s war in Gaza.

Her detention stood out as particularly shocking because there was no indication she had ever engaged in any disruptive or lawbreaking protests. She had merely co-authored an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper last year that criticized the war and urged school administrators to acknowledge students’ concerns about it.

A Trump administration spokesperson anonymously claimed in March that “DHS and ICE investigations found Öztürk engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” But to this day they have conspicuously failed to produce any evidence of that — including, when Öztürk filed suit, before a judge.

What did the judge say? Judge William Sessions III ordered Öztürk released “immediately.” Ruling from the bench, he sounded appalled by the Trump administration’s conduct, which he said “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens.”

He said Öztürk had made “very substantial claims of First Amendment and due process violations,” and that, furthermore, the government had offered “no evidence” about their motivation for detaining her other than the op-ed.

Is this case over, then? No. Öztürk was ordered released from detention. But the question of whether the US government can legally revoke her visa remains unresolved. While Sessions sounds very likely to rule in her favor, it’s unclear if conservatives on the Supreme Court will do the same, should the case reach them. Still, this case has been an embarrassment to the Trump administration, and perhaps there’s a faint glimmer of hope they’ll decide to just drop it. Too optimistic? Probably.

And with that, it’s time to log off…

If you want some good art film recommendations, Jia Zhangke — one of the best directors working today, in my view — visited the Criterion Closet this week and picked some of his favorites. His own films are also streaming on the Criterion Channel — if you’re interested in contemplative movies about the modernization of China that suddenly drop a Village People dance track, check them out!

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration will begin sending student loans in default to debt collectors today and will soon seize wages for repayment, a decision with financial consequences for millions of Americans behind on their payments.

What’s the context here? The first Trump administration stopped requiring repayment of student loans in March 2020. After Joe Biden’s attempt at mass student loan forgiveness was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2023, payments resumed for loan borrowers. But at first, borrowers who weren’t making payments avoided penalties. In April, the Trump administration announced it would resume collections on loans that have not been paid, and today, time is up.

So what now? If loans are in default — meaning they have not been paid in 270 days — the federal government will begin the process of sending the accounts to collection agencies, which will hurt borrowers’ credit scores. The administration also says it will soon begin garnishing wages and federal payments.

How many people will this affect? Almost 43 million Americans have student debt. Five million borrowers haven’t made a payment in 360 days, per the Education Department. More than 20 percent of borrowers haven’t made a payment in at least 90 days, according to the credit service TransUnion.

What’s the big picture? The student loan grace period was meant to get borrowers through tough economic times, and it’s true the chaos of the pandemic economy has passed. Unemployment is at 4.2 percent, and inflation is under control. But the rosier economic picture may be temporary, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs are already hurting GDP growth, and more difficult times for workers could be around the corner. For those with spiraling student loan debt, that could be doubly painful.

And with that, it’s time to log off…

I get a lot of joy out of Vox’s Unexplainable podcast, which explores difficult scientific questions and helps me remember that we’re surrounded by wonder. So I’m excited to let you know that Unexplainable is going to start coming out with new episodes twice weekly. You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. And today’s episode is a gem: an exploration of how most everything we were told about Neanderthals is wrong. Hope you enjoy, thanks for reading, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/trumps-student-debt-plan-whats-happening-now/feed/ 0 34678 Apple student discount: How to get an Apple Education discount https://earlybirdsinvest.com/apple-student-discount-how-to-get-an-apple-education-discount/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/apple-student-discount-how-to-get-an-apple-education-discount/#respond Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:48:09 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/apple-student-discount-how-to-get-an-apple-education-discount/

Students, teachers, and those who work for an educational institution can save money on a new Mac, MacBook, or iPad by shopping at the Apple Education Store, which offers discounts all year round.

In this article, we will explain how much the Apple education discount is and who qualifies for an Apple student discount, before explaining how to get an Apple student discount at the Apple Education Store. Click the link below to go to Apple’s education storefront in your country:

What products does Apple discount for students?

The discounts are only available for iPads, MacBooks and Macs.

Education discounts are not available on the iPhone, Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomePods, accessories, or software (Adobe and Microsoft both offer student discounts though).

AirPods aren’t discounted for students either, but Apple has been known to give away AirPods as part of a student-focused deal during the back-to-school buying season (between June and October in the northern hemisphere and between January and March in the southern hemisphere). For example, between January-March 2025 students in Australia and other southern hemisphere locations could claim free AirPods with Mac purchases and free Apple Pencils with iPad purchases.

Apple’s Back To School offer will start in June 2025 in the U.S. and in July 2025 in the U.K. and Europe, and students will either be offered AirPods or Pencils, as their Australian counterparts were, or they will be able to get vouchers with qualifying purchases until mid-September or October respectively.

Students can also get Apple Music for half price with free Apple TV+ included.

How much is the Apple student discount?

Apple doesn’t offer a single, universal discount to students. It sets different prices for each product range.

Students can save up to $200/£220 on Macs and up to $100/£100 on iPads.

Here’s how the iPad MSRP compares to the student price:

Product U.S. U.K. Australia Canada
iPad (A16) MSRP $349 £329 $599 $499
iPad (A16) Student Price $329 £309 $559 $469
iPad mini (A17 Pro) MSRP $499 £499 $799 $679
iPad mini (A17 Pro) Student Price $449 £449 $719 $609
iPad Air (11-inch, M3) MSRP $599 £599 $999 $799
iPad Air (11-inch, M3) Student Price $549 £549 $919 $729
iPad Air (13-inch, M2)
MSRP		 $799 £799 $1,299 $1,099
iPad Air (13-inch, M2) Student Price $749 £749 $1,219 $1,029
iPad Pro (11-inch, M4) MSRP $999 £999 $1,699 $1,399
iPad Pro (11-inch, M4) Student Price $899 £899 $1,529 $1,249
iPad Pro (13-inch, M4) MSRP $1,299 £1,299 $2,199 $1,799
iPad Pro (13-inch, M4) Student Price $1,199 £1,199 $2,029 $1,649

Here’s how the Mac and MacBook MSRP compares to the student price:

Product U.S. U.K. Australia Canada
13.6-inch MacBook Air, M4, MSRP $999 £999 $1,699 $1,399
13.6-inch MacBook Air, M3, Student discount $899 £899 $1,549 $1,249
15-inch MacBook Air, M4, MSRP $1,199 £1,199 $2,099 $1,699
15-inch MacBook Air, M3, Student discount $1,099 £1,099 $1,949 $1,549
14-inch MacBook Pro M4 MSRP $1,599 £1,599 $2,499 $2,099
14-inch MacBook Pro M4 Student discount $1,499 £1,499 $2,349 $1,969
14-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro MSRP $1,999 £1,999 $3,299 $2,699
14-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro Student discount $1,849 £1,849 $3,069 $2,509
16-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro MSRP $2,499 £2,499 $3,999 $3,299
16-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro Student discount $2,299 £2,299 $3,699 $3,049
iMac M4 MSRP $1,299 £1,299 $1,999 $1,699
iMac M4 Student discount $1,249 £1,249 $1,919 $1,629
Mac mini M4 MSRP $599 £599 $999 $799
Mac mini M4 Student discount $499 £499 $849 $669
Mac Studio M4 Max MSRP $1,999 £2,099 $3,499 $2,699
Mac Studio M4 Max Student discount $1,799 £1,899 $3,199 $2,399
Mac Pro M2 Ultra MSRP $6,999 £7,199 $11,999 $8,999
Mac Pro M2 Ultra Student discount $6,599 £6,789 $11,309 $8,479

MacBook student discounts

Below are the discounts on the base model Macs, there are bigger discounts on the more expensive models.

How much can students save on the 13-inch MacBook Air, M4?

MSRP: $999 / £999 / AU$1,599 / CA$1,299
Student: $899 / £899 / AU$1,439 / CA$1,169

Students save: $100 / £100 / AU$160 / CA$130

How much can students save on the 15-inch MacBook Air, M4?

MSRP: $1,199 / £1,199 / AU$2,099 / CA$1,699
Student: $1,099 / £1,099 / AU$1,949 / CA$1,549

Students save: $100 / £100 / AU$150 / CA$150

How much can students save on the 14-inch MacBook Pro, M4?

MSRP: $1,599 / £1,599 / AU$2,499 / CA$2,099
Student: $1,499 / £1,499 / AU$2,349 / CA$1,969

Students save: $100 / £100 / AU$150 / CA$130

How much can students save on the 14-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro?

MSRP: $1,999 / £1,999 / AU$3,299 / CA$2,699
Student: $1,849 / £1,849 / AU$3,069 / CA$2,509

Students save: $150 / £150 / AU$230 / CA$190

How much can students save on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro?

MSRP: $2,499 / £2,499 / AU$3,999 / CA$3,299
Student: $2,299 / £2,299 / AU$3,699 / CA$3,049

Students save: $200 / £200 / AU$300 / CA$250

How much can students save on the Mac mini, M4 Pro?

MSRP: $1,399 / £1,399 / AU$2,199 / CA$1,899
Student: $1,299 / £1,299 / AU$2,049 / CA$1,769

Students save: $100 / £100 / AU$150 / CA$130

How much can students save on the Mac mini, M4?

MSRP: $599 / £599 / AU$999 / CA$799
Student: $499 / £499 / AU$829 / CA$669

Students save: $100 / £110 / AU$170 / CA$130

How much can students save on the iMac M4?

MSRP: $1,299 / £1,299 / AU$1,999 / CA$1,699
Student discount: $1,249 / £1,249 / AU$1,919 / CA$1,629

Students save: $50 / £50 / AU$80 / CA$70

Get the student discount at:

Apple’s U.S. Education Store
Apple’s U.K. Education Store (in the UK you will need to verify your student status via UNiDAYS).
Apple’s Canada Education Store
Apple’s Australian Education Store

You may be able to get better discounts if you shop elsewhere. We round up the best MacBook Pro deals, the best MacBook Air deals, the best iMac deals, and the best Mac mini deals.

We also have a guide to the best Mac for students that you might find useful.

iPad student discounts

Apple

Below are the discounts on the base model iPads, there are bigger discounts on the more expensive models.

How much can students save on the iPad mini (A17 Pro)?

MSRP: $499 / £499 / AU$799 / CA$679
Students: $449 / £449 / AU$719 / CA $609

Students save: $50 / £50 / AU$80 / CA$70

How much can students save on the iPad (A16)?

MSRP: $349 / £329 / AU$599 / CA$499
Students; $329 / £309 / AU$559 / CA$469

Students save: $20 / £20 / AU$40 / CA$30

How much can students save on the 11-inch iPad Air (M3)?

MSRP: $599 / £599 / AU$999 / CA$799
Student: $549 / £549 / AU$919 / CA$729

Students save: $50 / £50 / AU$80 / CA$70

How much can students save on the 11-inch iPad Pro (M4)?

MSRP: $999 / £999 / AU$1,699 / CA$1,399
Students: $899 / £899 / AU$1,529 / CA$1,249

Students save: $100 / £100 / AU$170 / CA$150

Get the student discount at:

Apple’s U.S. Education Store
Apple’s U.K. Education Store (in the U.K. you will need to verify your student status via UNiDAYS).
Apple’s Canada Education Store
Apple’s Australian Education Store

You may find a better deal or discount if you check out our deals round-ups: best iPad Air deals, best iPad mini deals, best iPad 10.2in deals, and the best iPad Pro deals.

If you’re thinking of buying an iPad for college or university you also might like to read our guide to the Best iPad for students.

Who can get an Apple student discount?

Now we have told you how much you can save, the big question is whether you can save anything at all. Do you qualify for Apple’s student discounts?

In order to shop at Apple’s Education Stores and take advantage of the lower prices you need to qualify as a student or work in an education institution.

If you were hoping that you could get a discount for the Mac you want to buy your 13-year-old the bad news is that you can’t, unless you are employed by the school and buying for the institution, or you are a home educator. Students in high school don’t qualify for this discount.

There are three types of people who can qualify for a student discount:

  • Students in higher education (post-secondary education, e.g. university, college).
  • People who are buying for education institutions.
  • Parents of higher education students buying on their behalf.
  • Home-based educators.

Apple spells this out in more detail in its terms and conditions.

For the U.S. these state that the following groups are “eligible to purchase from the Apple Store for Education:”

  • K-12 staff: Any employee of a public or private K-12 institution in the United States is eligible, including homeschool teachers (this doesn’t include people educating their children during lockdowns). In addition, school board members who are currently serving as elected or appointed members are eligible. PTA or PTO executives currently serving as elected or appointed officers are eligible.
  • Higher education staff and students: Faculty and staff of higher educational institutions in the U.S.; and students attending, or accepted into a higher educational institution in the U.S. are eligible to purchase. Purchases from the Apple Store for Education Individuals are not for institutional purchase or resale.
  • Higher education parents: Parents purchasing on behalf of their child, who is a student currently attending or accepted into a public or private higher educational institution in the U.S. are eligible to purchase.

Apple has a similar set of terms and conditions for eligibility in the U.K.:

  • Employees of any education institution: Any employee of a public or private education institution in the U.K.
  • Post-secondary education students: Students attending or accepted into a post-secondary education institution in the U.K.
  • Parents of post-secondary students: Parents purchasing on behalf of their child, who is a student currently attending or accepted into a public or private post-secondary education institution in the U.K.

If you’re attending higher education, or have been accepted into a higher education/post-secondary institution, you qualify for an Apple discount. (In the U.K. post-secondary means university, or any other formal education that takes place after secondary education is complete. Therefore, this excludes sixth-form colleges, although it may be worth inquiring at an Apple Store to see if the company is prepared to relax the rules.)

Parents of post-secondary/higher education students do not qualify when buying for themselves, but they can pick up a discounted Mac for their child from the education store.

Anybody who works in an educational environment qualifies for a discount on certain Apple products. It’s not just limited to teachers and lecturers but also covers administrative workers and other staff members. Essentially, it’s anybody who works at or for a school, college, or university. (This is not limited to post-secondary institutions. Apple refers to “any education institution.”)

This does mean that you can’t get a discount for a Mac or iPad for your child who is currently at school, although the school could make the purchase and provide the equipment for students.

If you don’t qualify for an Apple Education Store discount, we’d recommend instead checking out the Apple Refurbished Store, which offers discounts for everyone. You can’t apply a student discount in Apple’s Refurbished Store. We also recommend that you check our round-ups of the latest and best Apple deals we find at various Apple resellers.

How many products can I buy?

According to this Sales Policy document (or here) on the U.S. Apple site and the same on the U.K. Apple Education site, students can purchase the following with education pricing:

  • Desktop Mac: One may be purchased per year
  • Laptop Mac: One may be purchased per year
  • iPad: Two may be purchased per year
  • Accessories: Two accessories with Education Pricing may be purchased per year

How to get a student discount at Apple

Having established that you qualify for an education discount, how can you get money off at Apple?

You may think that all you need to do is visit the Apple Store for Education and you will find the products you want at a lower price. However, before you can access Apple’s Education Store you will need to verify that you are a student or that you qualify in another way (e.g. you work in a school or college). Different countries have different sequences of steps to go through, which we will run through below. 

How to get an Apple student discount in the U.S.

If you are a student in the U.S. it is quite easy to get an Education discount at the U.S. Apple Store–in fact, a loophole may mean it is possible to get a student discount without any proof that you are a student. If you are a student you should follow these steps:

  1. Visit Apple’s U.S. Education Store.
  2. Choose the Mac or iPad you want and click on your selection.
  3. Once you have customized your Apple product, click Continue.
  4. Enter your delivery details and check out.
  5. Beware that Apple can request to see evidence that you are a student at any point during or after the purchase and will charge an additional fee if you fail to provide it.

If you have any problems, we recommend you get your student status verified with UNiDAYS or log on from your university network. Make sure you have quick access to some form of official identification that proves you qualify for the education discount. Your student ID is a good choice.

In January 2022, Apple changed the U.S. Education Discount Store to require validation from UNiDAYS before students can get a discount, but it then removed the requirement. Apple could re-implement this validation step that students in other countries have to go through. If it does it may still be possible for non-students in the U.S. to avoid the validation step, as per this Reddit post.

Canadian students can follow the same steps as the U.S. Start shopping at Apple’s Canada Education Store.

How to get an Apple student discount in the U.K.

U.K. students will need to register with UNiDAYS before they can get a discount from the Apple Education Store.

  1. Visit Apple’s U.K. Education Store to access the Apple Education site.
  2. Once there you’ll be encouraged to sign up on the student discount website UNiDAYS. You can also use the alternative service Student Beans to register for Apple’s educational discounts.
  3. On whichever site you use, you’ll need to provide your email address and a password, your name, institution, subject of study, years of study, and course length.
  4. Once you have completed the registration process and signed in you will be able to access Apple’s student discounts.

If you don’t want to register via a verification site, you can also call Apple, use Apple’s Chat online feature, or visit an Apple Store. The staff there will guide you through the process.

How to get an Apple student discount in Australia or Canada

  1. Visit Apple’s Australian Education Store or Apple’s Canada Education Store.
  2. It’s usually best to log on from your university network if you can.
  3. You will also want to make sure you have quick access to some form of official identification that proves you qualify for the education discount. Your student ID is a good choice.
  4. However, you may find you don’t actually require any sort of login or ID to order from the Apple Education Store–but beware that Apple can request to see evidence that you are a student at any point during or after the purchase and will charge an additional fee if you fail to provide it.

How to buy Apple products for an education institution

If you have been tasked with buying new Macs or iPads for a school, college, or university then Apple has a different store for you. This store is designed for those who are buying a Mac for an educational institution (for students to work on rather than for individual students to own).

  1. You should visit the U.S. Apple Store for Education Institutions (if that link doesn’t work), the U.K. Apple Store for Education Institutions (if that link doesn’t work), or the Canadian or Australian equivalent.
  2. You’ll need to search for your Educational Institution: enter your institution’s details and click on search. 
  3. If your institution is found you will be able to sign in to access your institution’s store.
  4. You may still need to register before you can use the store.
  5. If your school, college, or other institution isn’t found then you may need to call Apple to discuss registering your school.

How to get a student discount for Apple Music and Apple TV+

Apple’s student membership scheme for Apple Music offers those in full-time education a 50 percent subscription discount and this deal is better than ever right now because the Student Apple Music deal also includes Apple TV+ for a limited time (following a 2023 price hike Apple TV+ now costs $9.99/£8.99 a month, up from $6.99/£6.99 per month). If you are a student, here’s how to get Apple Music for half price.

Apple regularly offers three months free for new subscribers to Apple Music, so you might want to take that up first. Get three months free here or read How to get Apple Music for free.

The student discount brings the monthly cost of Apple Music membership down from $10.99/£10.99 to $5.99/£5.99, with identical schemes in Ireland, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and Denmark, each offering half off the usual price. And with Apple TV+ bundled in for free, it’s a great deal!

To qualify for the student discount, you’ll need to prove that you’re enrolled at an eligible university or college. The discount runs for up to 48 months (four years).

The Student Membership tier is the third membership tier Apple has offered to consumers, alongside Individual Membership ($10.99/£10.99 per month) and Family Membership ($16.99/£16.99). Visit Apple’s site for more details and to sign up.

If you’re a student and signing up for Apple Music on your iPhone or iPad, tap where it says “Are you a University Student?” and you’ll be directed to a verification system. If your college or university is eligible you’ll get a reduced subscription rate. Read our guide to Apple Music and How to get Apple Music for free for the best trial options.

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