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College students can now get a 12-month subscription to Google’s AI Pro plan for free.
The offer is live on Google’s website and will be up for grabs through Oct. 6. To be eligible for the program, you need to be 18 or older, have a Google account, verify your student status using a school email address, and add a valid payment method. Your free 12-month membership will begin the day you redeem the offer and will be renewed at the existing rate unless canceled beforehand.
The subscription usually costs $20 per month and unlocks Google’s most capable AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro. It also lets you try out many Gemini-powered features like Deep Research, NotebookLM, Veo 3, and Jules.
With Deep Research, you can ask Gemini to conduct research on your behalf and deliver a downloadable report; it can perform hours-long work in just a few minutes. Veo 3 helps you transform text or a photo into an 8-second clip with background music, while Jules, which just emerged from beta this week, is a coding agent that can fix bugs and handle development tasks independently.
NotebookLM, on the other hand, lets you break down complex information into digestible pieces. It can take your sources—documents or websites—and convert them into summaries, audio overviews, or even narrated slideshows. The free version of this tool comes with three audio and video generations per day, which extends to 20 with the AI Pro subscription.
Additionally, and most importantly, the AI Pro plan gets you 2TB of cloud storage, which can help store all your college work and memories in one place.
Alongside this back-to-school offer, Google also rolled out a student-friendly Gemini tool that promotes purposeful learning. When enabled, Guided Learning will help you get to answers with prompts and explanations. Its responses will include images, diagrams, videos, and interactive quizzes to test and improve your knowledge. OpenAI released a similar tool for ChatGPT, called Study Mode, last week.