AT&T Student Discount

Posted on 22 November 2008

Everyone these days has a cell phone, in fact if you’re a student you’re much more likely to have a mobile phone than a landline.  So if you’ve been searching for ways to get student discounts on your phone bill and data plan, you’re in luck if you use AT&T and attend a university that offers a student discount through AT&T.

Here’s how you can find out whether or not your college offers a student discount for AT&T.  Visit the AT&T Premier Enterprise Portal and on the right hand side you will see a form textbox where you can enter your school email address to find out if AT&T offers a discount to your school, and if they do then receive an email with a link to your school’s discount portal.

AT&T student discount sign-up page

If you’re school does indeed have a relationship with AT&T then a page will be shown indicating the success and you will then receive the email from AT&T.  You can enjoy anywhere from a 3% - 20% savings on both AT&T products and plans.  For instance, if you attend University of Southern California the discount rate is 15%.  If you have an existing AT&T account you can simply associate this student discount to your existing plan and it will take effect with your next bill.  If you do not have an AT&T wireless plan you can of course open a new account and start a plan.

ATT Student Discount Success

ATT Student Discount Email

If you’re school is not part of the AT&T discount plan and you have a job then it is possible that AT&T offers a discount through your employer as well, so check with your work’s HR department or use the AT&T Premier Enterprise Portal to lookup whether there is a discount or not.

One question I’ve seen a lot is whether the iPhone has a student discount through AT&T.  The answer is that the old iPhone has no discount on the phone or rate plan, but with the new 3G iPhone you can get a discount on the rate plan, but not on the actual hardware.  Since the wireless rate and data plan on a 3G iPhone is so much a 15% discount will save you a lot of money in the course of a year!

Another piece of information worth mentioning is that this AT&T student discount / employee discount is often called a FAN discount by AT&T.  FAN stands for Foundation Account Number, which basically means that AT&T offers a discount to a foundation (company or school) and you can associate that “Foundation” account to your personal account and enjoy the discount.

Happy savings on your AT&T phone bills!


This post was written by:

AJ - who has written 154 posts on Student Buying Guide.


9 Comments For This Post

  1. Selene says:

    You should mention that there is a membership fee first to be enrolled

  2. AJ says:

    I believe it varies from one institution to another on what the fee is, it can be up to $36 though you are right.

  3. barbara says:

    does anyone know whether the membership fee is charged for USC (University of Southern California) students?

  4. Jane says:

    There was no enrollment fee for University of Georgia

  5. Joe says:

    No fee, but no guaranteed discount too.
    i applied in June, it does show 3% but it still hasn’t showed up on bill
    Its end of October!!

  6. John says:

    Agreements vary by school. I go to UCLA and signing up was easy as cake. Now I receive a 15% discount on my bill!

  7. Nate says:

    thanks. I did sign up for this and i qualified for this. After i signed up this program, on the top of the right corner, i saw my school FAN and some #. However, after 1 day, it disappeared. Do you guys know why? Thanks. P/S i did receive an email from AT&T saying that i was qualified.

  8. Malcore says:

    Hmmmmmm my university didn’t qualify for the discount. But my girl qualified for it. I might ask her and see if I can use hers. lol

  9. David says:

    Pepperdine qualified for a 15% discount on iPhone plan.

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