Hi, I’m trying to register a student account on Cursor from Vietnam. Could you please guide me through the registration process? Also, do I need to provide any proof of student status, such as a student ID or university email?
You can find all the information here “Cursor for Students | Cursor - The AI Code Editor”. You can always try, just remember that in order to use this discount, your Cursor account email must match your valid “.edu” university email, and you must use that same email to verify your student status but currently I think Vietnam is not supported. Here is the list of countries supported for student discount. “Which universities are eligible?
Due to our verification process, this promotion is only available for verified students at universities in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.”
I am an albania student and i tried to create my student account in Cursor but my country was not as option.
Hey, at the moment we support universities from these countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.
Hi Cursor Team and Community,
I’m a student in Italy trying to access the free Cursor Pro student plan. However, I’m facing a problem with the email verification process.
My official student email does not end with “.edu” because universities in Italy—and generally in Europe—do not use “.edu” domains. Despite Italy being listed as an eligible country, the system rejects my email for verification.
Is there an alternative way to verify student status for users like me? Or could a manual verification process be possible?
I’d really appreciate any help or advice from the team or the community.
Cursor currently requires a .edu email for student verification, but not all universities provide this. For example, my university offers G-Suite emails and many others don’t even offer institutional emails at all.
This makes it unfair for a large number of genuine students who can’t get verified just because of their university’s email system. There should be alternative ways to verify student status like uploading a student ID or supporting other institutional email domains.
Please consider making student access more inclusive.
Hey team,
I noticed that the current “Cursor for Students” program is pretty limited when it comes to eligibility. A lot of students I know are either getting rejected because their college domain isn’t accepted, or because they’re from countries that aren’t supported right now.
That got me thinking — why not allow students to verify using the GitHub Student Developer Pack instead?
GitHub already does a solid job verifying student status globally. They accept actual proof like college IDs or transcripts if the domain doesn’t work, and it’s available in most countries. So rather than maintaining a long list of accepted emails or regions, you could just check if someone has an active GitHub Student Pack and grant access based on that.
It’d make the process way smoother for legit students who just happen to be in unsupported colleges or countries. Plus, it’d cut down a lot of support tickets from people asking why their student email isn’t working.
Hope this is something the team can consider. Would make student access a lot more fair and accessible!
Thanks 
Unfortunately Cursor doesn’t actually want to give students free access, they just want the good PR from offerring it. There’s been dozens of posts on this forum over the past month from students with non-.edu emails unable to redeem their approved discount with 0 responses from anyone at Cursor. At this point it’s just false marketing.
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Like india was there for 3 days and i created in first day and got somehow but my friend didnt get it as india was removed and also we have email as @nmamit.in instead of .edu
Unfortunately, due to the value of our student plan being so great, we have to ensure there is no possible way for the plan to be exploited by non-students.
Unfortunately, this means we cannot rely on 3rd parties to verify who is and isn’t a student, as they often are not immune to exploitation themselves - the only difference is that the value of what you can get is low enough that the companies can afford to give it away, even to those who exploit the system.
Also, as GitHub have Copilot, I’m not sure how happy they would be adding Cursor to their developer pack 
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Totally understandable, I get the concern about abuse.
But just curious — since Cursor uses a 3rd party like SheerID for verification anyway, why was India removed entirely from eligibility?
If I’m not wrong, India contributes around 20–30% of the world’s engineering graduates. That’s a huge student base getting blocked out, especially when most are genuinely enrolled and would benefit from tools like Cursor.
Was there a specific issue that led to the removal? Just trying to understand the reasoning behind it.
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I have edu e-mail and it simply doesn’t work. I have received no replies or I can’t even login to verify my student status. Just incredibly poor service.
If I have private request for the team, should I email [email protected], or is there a better place for that?
Just not sure how often that inbox actually gets checked 
Yes that email address is correct.
@Artemonim yes the email gets checked and emails are handled, though due to volume of questions there may be a delay until they get around to answering. Let me know if you don’t receive a response in a day. (Tag me)
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Sent. Hope they accept the request 
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I alway get automated response when ever I send a email to them. and then when I reply to them, then I don’t hear anything back from them.
Hey, what’s your question?
I emailed [email protected] from [CLASSIFIED].
Not sure if it’s okay to ask for something like this publicly.
I had created a personal account to try cursor and after that I tried to get a student account but when I try to verify my student email it says “the email needs to be .edu account” but in UK university the email ends with .ac.uk instead of .edu, I tired to email the support team on [email protected] email and they said to email them thought university email so I did exactly that but even then they said to sent an email from university email.
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