Amazon Prime Young Adult (18-24) & Student: Get Free 6 Month Prime Trial; Grubhub+, Video Discounts & More

[Update 7/1/25: Aside from the regular 6 months of free Prime member, Amazon has added a special for Young Adults (ages 18-24) to get 5% back on all Amazon purchases, up to $500 per calendar year. On Prime Day 2025 (July 8-11) Young Adults will get an increased rate of 10% back. We wrote more in this dedicated post.]

Amazon has a special offer for Young Adults (ages 18-24) and for Students (any age) with a 6-month free Amazon Prime membership trial, discounted monthly price, and numerous benefits like Grubhub+, cheap Amazon Music Unlimited, discounted Prime Video channels and more. We’ve mentioned many of these benefits individually, in this post we’ll do a full review.

Amazon Prime Student signup page (affiliate links are contained in this post)

Membership Discounts

Those age 18-24 are eligible automatically, even if they are not students. Those in other age groups will input the university name and graduation year during the signup process or you can instead input your .edu email address. (See this comment.)

Bonus Amazon Benefits

Young Adults and Students get the following extra Amazon benefits:

Other Benefits

Students get the following partner benefits:

Young Adult 5% Back

There’s a special benefit for Young Adults only to get 5% back on select purchases, up to $100 back per purchase and $500 per calendar year.

Eligible Products are identifiable with badges on product search and detail pages. Eligible Products are currently listed in the product categories of Beauty, Apparel, Electronics, Personal Care and Personal Computers.

Young Adults can find their cashback balance here.

Our Verdict

Some nice deals here with the 6 month trial, ongoing discounted Prime membership, and all of these other benefits.
    Chuck
  • On August 16, 2024, 00:33
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  • One thing I noticed is that regular Amazon accounts become eligible for 1 month Prime trials (that become 2 month trials later) after about a year or so, but Amazon Student accounts never become eligible for a second 6-month trial. I also haven't found a way to convert a non-Prime student account to regular non-Prime account in order to be eligible for more 1 month trials.

    • What an Amazon Student account? Any Amazon account that at some point claimed student benefit?

      • yes. once you convert to an Amazon Student account, I don't believe there's a way to go back

        • Is there any indication that it's a student account?

          I have an account where I claimed 6mo free student Prime long time ago. Now this account only gets offers for discounted student Prime (not free). I'm wondering if this is treated as a student account.

          My other accounts get 1mo free Prime trials every one in a while.

          • I had a student account that lapsed about 4 years ago. I currently see only a one week trial.

  • I can't sign up for a student account because now amazon requires phone number and my phone number is already used in my main account, so it gives me an error that my phone number is already in use. is there a way to make my account a student account?

    • I know this is a late reply, but you can remove your mobile number under Your account > Login & Security. In your case, you would remove it from your main account, sign up for a student account, remove it from the student account, and then you could re-add it to your main account if you want to.

  • I am grad student. My company reimburses tuition so more dollars towards bonuses. I got the 6 month trial and now paying the $7.49 a month. Don’t think it’s worth it. Prime tv is awful and I don’t really order from Amazon

  • so, we've had a family shared account in my name for years- which was prepaid. My College student daughter saw this promo and signed up for it because she wanted the Grubhub plus.

    Now we're getting it for free I guess, but I haven't seen a refund for the pro-rated annual membership for which I paid. I assume that we'll be billed at the student rate after the free 6 months and can pay the $69 annual up front, but what happened to/will happen to my remaining balance? I'd try to call Amazon, but based on past experience, from when I bought a discounted gift of Prime for myself and tried to get a credit for my previous pre-payment with no luck at all, they won't have a clue...

    Any ideas?

    Thanks all

    • @guest_1421749 You might want to check, but I don't think student prime can be shared with others, like regular prime where you can add another family members. Although if you're using same account with your daughter that should work just fine.

      Also, GH+ is very weak incentive to get prime. I think BoA also has/had GH+ under bankamerideals. And probably there are other ways.

  • @chucksithe Annual prime membership is half price too, only $69/year. You only need a .edu email address to register, there’s no verification beyond that.

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