How to Get an HP Student Discount

Save money on laptops and printers for school

Students check out HP student discounts on a laptop.

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by Jeremy Laukkonen
Jeremy Laukkonen is tech writer and the creator of a popular blog and video game startup. He also ghostwrites articles for numerous major trade publications.
Updated May 07, 2019

Hewlett-Packard, or HP, is one of the oldest and most trusted names in computers, printers, scanners, and most of the other hardware that students need to stock up on to ensure a successful academic career. HP doesn't have its own in-house student discount program, but it does work with Unidays to verify enrollment and provide students with pretty big discount codes. By signing up with Unidays, you can save up to 55 percent on laptops for school, printers, calculators, and more.

Who is Eligible For the HP Student Discount?

To qualify for HP student discount codes through Unidays, you need to meet a few basic requirements that pertain to age and enrollment at a qualifying school.

To use Unidays, you must be:

  • At least 16 years old
  • Currently enrolled at a college or university
  • Able to access to either a .edu email issued by your school, or a credit card style student ID from your school

Unidays does not allow parents to sign up for their children. Students must sign up on their own, and they have to meed the age and enrollment requirements.

What Does the HP Student Discount Get You?

HP student discounts through Unidays vary based on the current offers. Coupon codes typically provide a discount between 35 and 55 percent on a variety of HP products, including laptops, printers, calculators, and more.

A screenshot of HP student discount savings on Unidays.

Since the available HP discounts through Unidays aren't set in stone, the percentage that you can save, and the items that are eligible for specific coupons, changes from time to time. To find out exactly how much you can save at any given time, you have to actually check the Unidays site to see what's available.

After you sign up for Unidays and verify your enrollment, you can view the current offers and generate coupon codes to use in the shopping cart on HP's site. Since codes aren't applied until you reach the shopping cart, you won't see your student discount reflected in any of the prices on the HP website prior to checkout.

How Does HP Verify Student Enrollment?

Since HP doesn't operate its own in-house student discount plan, they don't verify student enrollment. The third party service that is able to provide HP student discount codes, Unidays, has the ability to verify student enrollment by checking records.

Unidays is able to verify student enrollment at most four year universities and colleges, and manual verification is available for many schools that aren't already in the system.

This same student discount service is used by a lot of other big companies, like Dell, and you only have to sign up once. Once you have signed up and verified your enrollment, you can take advantage of Unidays student discount codes for hundreds of different companies.

How to Sign Up for the HP Student Discount

Since you obtain HP student discount codes through Unidays, you need to sign up for Unidays to access your discount. The signup process isn't difficult, but it does require you to verify your enrollment at a qualifying school. Once you've successfully set up and verified your Unidays account, you can use it to generate coupon codes.

Unidays partners with a lot of big name retailers like Apple and Dell, so signing up will provide you with a lot of discounts beyond HP.

Here's how to get set up with Unidays so that you will be able to take advantage of the HP student discount:

  1. Navigate to the Unidays website and click or tap the ≡ (three vertical lines) icon.

    A screenshot of Unidays.

  2. Click or tap Join now.

    A screenshot of the Unidays website.

  3. Enter your email address, select a password, and click or tap Join now.

    A screenshot of Unidays.

  4. Enter your school information, and click or tap Continue.

    A screenshot of the Unidays sign up process.

  5. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete your verification process. If you aren't able to verify automatically, or your school isn't listed, contact Unidays for the procedure to verify manually.

How to Use Your HP Student Discount

To get an HP student discount through Unidays, you need to use Unidays to generate a one-time-use coupon code. The basic process involves visiting the Unidays site, generating a coupon code from HP, and then using the coupon code on HP's website.

Here's how the process works:

  1. Navigate to the Unidays website, locate a HP offer, and click or tap Redeem Online.

    A screenshot of Unidays.

    If you don't see a HP deal, try entering HP or Hewlett-Packard into the search field.

  2. Click or tap Redeem Code.

    A screenshot of HP's student discount on Unidays.

  3. Copy your code, and click Launch Website.

    A screenshot of HP's student discount on Unidays.

    This code only works once, and it expires after a short amount of time.

  4. On the HP website, locate a laptop, printer, calculator, or whatever item it is that you want to buy. Add the item to your shopping cart, and check out as normal. During checkout, enter the coupon that you obtained from Unidays and verify that your discount applies correctly. If the discount doesn't apply, try generating a new code. If that doesn't work, contact Unidays for additional support.

Where Else Can You Get HP Student Discounts?

While HP doesn't have its own in-house student discount program, HP products are available from a variety of retailers that do have student discount programs. Stores like Best Buy, the Microsoft Store, and others carry HP products and have their own student discount programs.

If Unidays doesn't have any useful HP student discount programs for you, check out the student discount programs for retailers like Best Buy and the Microsoft Store.