If you are a student of any university or college then, you will have a .edu email account with your name as provided by college or institute and you can apply for .edu using your ID card as a student(Issued by college or school), for example, name@mit.edu. But if you are not a student and want a free .edu email then this post is totally made for you. And yes, this method is 100% free and working to get free .edu email 2019 (Last tested on 13 July 2019).
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Why need a .edu email?
Here are some of the advantages and benefits of using .edu email.
1. GitHub Student Developer Pack
The first and biggest benefit of having a .EDU email address is the GitHub Student Developer Pack, the best free developer tools, and services for students. This student pack comes with 12 great offers and free services that may be useful to you, such as $15 Amazon AWS coupon, $50 Digital Ocean coupon and much more.
Take a look at the list below:
- $15 Amazon AWS coupon for all .edu email users.
- $50 Digital Ocean coupon. It will be expired within 12 months after adding to your account – new account only. Only available with .edu emails.
- Bitnami: Offers the Business 3 plan for one year that typically costs $49 per month.
- Crowdflower: access to the Crowdflower platform.
- DNSimple: Offers the Personal hosted DNS plan for two years that typically charge $5 per month.
- GitHub: Github Offers unlimited private repositories while you are a student. Normally, GitHub charges $7 per month.
- $25 credit of HackHands, a live programming help that available 24/7.
- A suite of Microsoft Azure cloud services and developer tools: Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Community and the rest of Microsoft developer tools, while you are a student.
- NameCheap.com: Offer one year .ME domain name registration that costs $18.99 per year – and one year SSL certificate that costs $10 per year.
- Orchestrate: Access to the Developer account that costs $49 per month, while you are a student. It’s a complete database portfolio, includes search, time-series events, geolocation, and graph queries through an API.
- SendGrid: Offers the Student plan with 15,000 free emails per month, while you are a student.
- Travis CI: Access the Private builds that charge you $69 per month, while you are a student.
Part 1 Method free .edu email 2019 :
Step 1: Go to this link and solve captcha. Then Click on new user and then sign up with email.
Step 2: To fill the detail you can use your real name and email but if you are not an US citizen then you can use this link to generate fake user detail. [For temporary email you can go here.] For Eg:
| Full Name | Mary com |
| Gender | female |
| Title | Mrs. |
| Race | Black |
| Birthday | 11/16/1957 |
| Social Security Number | 306-90-8491 |
[Note: Save name, username and password in notepad or somewhere it may need later]
Step 3: After filling all the detail click on submit.
Now that you have created account lets move on to part two of this tutorial.
Part 2:
After creating account and loging into click on Apply Now. Select any college name from the list and click on Apply. A pop-up will open then click on Apply Now (OR CONTINUE APPLICATION) BUTTON. Then you are asked for different questions. You can answer these questions randomly or you can use the detail below to answer these questions.
First name and last name: Put the name that you have entered in part 1. Leave other field empty.
Birthdate, Social Security Number: Enter details which was generated from this link .
Gender: Male/Female (as you like)
Racial or ethnic identification: White
Hispanico or Latino : No
Have you ever applied, attended …… : No
After that click on Save and Continue.
For Mailing address use the detail generated from this link.
Is this your permanent address: Yes
You can leave telephone number blank.
Then check on I have reviewed the guidelines box and click on save and continue.
Which ….. high school education: I don’t have a GED/High …….
Last date attended: 01/2017
Highest grade completed: 11th grade.
Have you ever attend …. : No
I have planned to earn a degree…..: No
I plan to start class: Choose any
After that click on Save and Continue.
Have you ever served …….. military: No
Are you …….. military: No
After that click on Save and Continue.
Parent 1 and 2: Choose any.
What is your current status?: Native US……
Primary spoken language: English
Do you want……: No
After that click on Submit your completed application.
Part 3.
After successfully completing the application put on your signature i.e your full name. Then you will be redirected to with all your detail. Under the student information, you will get your username and temporary password. Note down that password, username, and other details.
After that, you can go here and login where you will get your .edu email.
NOTE: It will take more than 6hours for the login credentials to activate. So you will get an error that your username and password is invalid. This is the end of this tutorial. By this way, you have successfully created free .edu mail. If you have any questions feel free to comment below and if you like this article don’t forget to share it with your friends.
TEXAS method:
The email extension you will get once you create this free .edu email will be yourpreferredname@my.tccd.edu
Once created, you can log in to your email dashboard from this link here: https://sso.tccd.edu/_layouts/PG/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/
To create this email, follow the steps below:
- Sign up for a TEXAS university account from this link: https://www.applytexas.org/adappc/gen/profile.WBX
- Provide all the required information. They may or may not be correct. But ensure that you provide a valid email address because that’s what you will need to verify the free .edu email address you want to create.
- Once you have confirmed the email address, you will be automatically redirected to a page where you are required to provide your custom username with which you will use to access the email address.
- After that, log in to your account and click on My Application and then, click on Create a New Blank Application. This is in a bid to fully activate your free .edu email address.
- On the options that appear, select Create 2 years College admission Application
- Open Drop down menu on next page and target two years college and select Tarrant Country College.
From there, select other options available and then, you are done with creating your free .edu email address. If you want to generate an SSN (social security number) number, then visit this link to generate yours: http://www.theonegenerator.com/ssngenerator
To log in, make use of the link provided at the beginning of this method.
Hope this article will help you and if you have any problem or queries don’t forget to comment down below.