Neowin News Feed for: College

Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot is now available for all U.S. college students for free

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:16:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will offer Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot bundled to all U.S. college students for free, among other things. Read more...

Apple releases massive slide deck to help children convince their parents to buy them a Mac

Usama Jawad — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:18:01 +0000

"The Parent Presentation" is an 81-page slide deck made by Apple so that children can convince their parents to buy them a Mac for college. Read more...

ChatGPT Plus is now free for college students in the US and Canada

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:38:01 +0000

To further expand its user base, OpenAI is offering free ChatGPT Plus subscriptions to students, while also facing infrastructure challenges due to the high demand. Read more...

Educators are now teaching high-level coding skills over syntax due to generative AI

Paul Hill — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:10:01 +0000

Generative AI is already affecting the way computer coding is taught at universities. Several educators have said that they now teach more high-level skills predominantly like debugging and testing. Read more...

New MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro available with student discounts

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:46:01 +0000

Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro are now available to purchase from the company. If you are a student in the United States, you may be eligible for discounts and perks. Read more...

University of Arizona will now offer degree credit for playing Age of Empires IV

Usama Jawad — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:52:01 +0000

Microsoft has formed a unique partnership with University of Arizona that will allow students to earn credit towards their degree for playing Age of Empires in a history-related course. Read more...

Applications for the Amazon Future Engineer scholarship program now open

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:30:01 +0000

Under the program, 100 students belonging to underserved communities will receive $40,000 to pursue computer science at college together with a guaranteed internship placement at Amazon. Read more...

Microsoft introduces Intune for Education, promising simple setup and management of devices

Andy Weir — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:48:01 +0000

Microsoft says its new Intune for Education management suite "makes it easy to set up default policies for all the devices and users in a class, school or district in a matter of minutes". Read more...

Microsoft's DreamSpark set to be rebranded as 'Imagine'

Cage Appleby — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:58:01 +0000

Microsoft announced exciting news for university students amidst the rebranding of its DreamSpark student initiative program. Microsoft Imagine is expected to be introduced to faculties by Q1 FY17. Read more...

UC Irvine to start first state-run e-sports scholarship

Matthew Sims — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 06:38:01 +0000

The dream of playing video games for a living is about to become real for some Californian university students. An opportunity to be a professional e-sport player will be offered to a select few soon. Read more...

Students can now save up to $300 on a Surface Pro 3 at the Microsoft Store till September 26th

Camden Krupala — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 05:58:01 +0000

If you're a student and don't plan on waiting for the Surface Pro 4, the Microsoft Store may be offering a deal you can't resist with models up to $300 off the regular retail price. Read more...

Neobytes :) Selfie 101: City Literary college can teach you the art of "self portraiture"

Adrian Potoroaca — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:56:02 +0000

A lot of people don't know how to take a proper selfie. A few amazing people at the City Literary college want to help you master the forbidden art of self-obsession, for only £132. Read more...

Microsoft offers 3 GB of extra free SkyDrive space for US college students

John Callaham — Mon, 27 May 2013 00:48:06 +0000

Microsoft has a new offer where qualified US college students can get 3 GB of extra free space on their SkyDrive cloud storage account, on top of the regular 7 GB of free space, for one year. Read more...

Samsung to release Student Edition GTab, undercutting their own product

Paul Ferson — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:30:19 +0000

Samsung are to release a new variant of their Galaxy Tab 7.0. Entitled the 'Student Edition', it includes extras and retails for the same price as a standard model.... for some reason. Read more...

Google+ more popular among parents than college students?

Paul Ferson — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:25:08 +0000

Google+ has undoubtedly been a hit new service of 2011; however, the users it holds most appeal towards could come as a surprise, as a new study suggests. Read more...

Apple doing just peachy in education

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:54:53 +0000

Concurrent with reports that Apple seem to be doing well financially, the company seem to be tying the education market up nicely also. News reports from Macworld amongst other sites, are all nattering about... Read more...

Microsoft gives students up to 91% off Office Ultimate

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:46:00 +0000

If you're a student looking to purchase Microsoft Office on the cheap you may be in luck. Microsoft has just announced the start of their Ultimate Steal Promotion. The new program, through a partnership... Read more...

California College Offers YouTube Course

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:23:20 +0000

If you're like most internet users, you'll watch a few YouTube videos per week; now imagine if you could earn college credits while watching YouTube videos. Before you begin laughing, let me refer you to... Read more...

Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:52:12 +0000

For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it. Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a... Read more...

Playboy to Launch College Social Networking Site

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:20:45 +0000

To compensate for declining readership and profits, Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. is heading back to school to boost the bottom line in one of its biggest expansion efforts in years. Riding a wave of renewed... Read more...

China cracks down on college campus porn sites

Mon, 28 May 2007 17:17:53 +0000

A Chinese campaign to clean up online pornography has reached college campuses with the Education Ministry lashing out at some school Web sites for making money from porn. "We strongly condemn Web site hosts for... Read more...

College advises students to push back against the RIAA

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:06:06 +0000

In February, the RIAA offered university students the option of an early settlement with the organization, which included lowered payouts and the benefit of avoiding going to court. While some universities were quick to comply... Read more...

College Leads Cybersecurity Drive

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:27:49 +0000

America's UC Berkeley is to lead the fight for cybersecurity in the USA. Experts from a number of colleges, led by the California-based university, will work together at a new "TRUST" - or Team for... Read more...

ESPN College Hoops dribbles into stores

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:28:35 +0000

Latest university basketball game from ESPN Videogames suited up and ready to play for a budget price. ESPN Videogames today announced that ESPN College Hoops 2K5 in now available in stores. The... Read more...

Bill Gates Visiting College Campuses

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:29:41 +0000

Bill Gates has spent much of his career trying to excite customers, shareholders and analysts about Microsoft Corp. This week, he turned his attention to getting college students excited about the field of computer science.... Read more...

Apple powers college supercomputer

Tom Warren — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:48:50 +0000

Everyone would love a supercomputer but with a price tag of around $100m each they are not easy to come by. But in the United States staff and students at Virginia Tech... Read more...

Music Industry Group Sues College File Swappers

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:12:11 +0000

A music industry group on Thursday said it has filed lawsuits against the operators of private computer networks on three college campuses where it claims the networks are being used to illegally trade copies of... Read more...

Boston College Student Steals Around $2,000 with Keylogger

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:52:40 +0000

Wow! Installing software on 100 computers without causing attention cant be easy! BOSTON -- A college student was indicted on Thursday on charges he placed software on dozens of computers that allowed... Read more...

"Red Hat Certified Engineer" goes to college

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:44:00 +0000

A good initiative from Redhat- hopefully if they education about the benifits the next generation wont be tied in... "Red Hat is getting ready to release a training package for educational institutions. The... Read more...