Microsoft 365 Personal Plan Now Available Free for College Students: Microsoft 365 Suite, Copilot Features, and More Accessible for a Year

Following Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity, Microsoft has also decided to offer students in certain selected regions its Microsoft 365 Personal plan for free, and it will be made accessible for a year’s time. With this free subscription, college-enrolled students will be able to make use of many added capabilities across the services offered by Microsoft.

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Microsoft 365 Personal Plan – 1 Year Free Subscription for College Students Now Available in the US, UK, and Canada

So far, Microsoft has only been offering college students a free trial access to its Microsoft 365 Personal plan for a period of three months, and following which they were required to pay a monthly discounted fee to receive continued access. Things are now changing as Microsoft has decided to roll out a year’s long free Microsoft 365 Personal subscription for college students enrolled in either UG or PG programs under a registered institution. It should be noted that this is a limited time offer that is only available till the 30th of November 2025 in selected regions like the US, UK, and Canada.

With the Microsoft 365 Personal plan, college students will be offered the Microsoft 365 suite featuring all of its productivity apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and more), along with their premium features; added Copilot sidebar across the productivity apps, additional Copilot features such as Podcasts, Vision, and Deep Research; unlocked image and video tools on Copilot, 1TB cloud storage across OneDrive and Outlook, as well as higher limits.

In related news, Microsoft had recently released the latest security updates for better gaming on Xbox and Windows 11. Prior to this, the brand had also released the Visual Studio October 2025 update too. Stay tuned for more such updates