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How to add your school to the student-discount verification list

How to add your school to the student-discount verification list


If you tried to verify for the student discount and got a message saying your school's email domain is not recognised, this article walks you through how to get your school added. You do not need any technical knowledge.


Table of contents

  • Why we use a list at all
  • The steps to add your school
  • What happens after your school is added
  • A note on bigger institutions


Why we use a list at all

SimplyPrint can't manually approve student verifications one by one — we'd never keep up, and it would mean a real human reading every student's email address every time. Instead, we use an open, community-maintained list of school email domains. When you submit your school email, we check whether your domain is on the list. If it is, you're confirmed as a student instantly.


The list covers thousands of schools, colleges and universities worldwide. But new ones come up all the time, and some smaller institutions have never been added — which is what brought you here.


The good news: anyone can ask for a school to be added, including you. Once your school is on the list, every current and future student at that school can verify in seconds. So the work you do here helps your whole school.


The steps to add your school

It takes about 10 minutes and the request usually gets reviewed within a few days.


What you'll need

  • Your school's full official name (for example "Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts", not "Royal Danish Academy").
  • Your school's email domain — the part after the @ in your school email. If your email is anna@students.copenhagen.edu, the domain is students.copenhagen.edu. If you have a school email but you're not sure what the domain is, ask a classmate or check the address an official school email was sent from.
  • A link to your school's official website (just the homepage).


The steps

  1. Open the community list. Visit the public list at github.com/JetBrains/swot. This is a free public website maintained by JetBrains, the company that makes the list we use. You do not need an account to view it — only to submit a request.


  1. Create a free account on the website. Click Sign up in the top right of github.com and follow the prompts. The free tier is enough. You'll just need a personal email address (a regular Gmail or Outlook account is fine, you do not need to use your school email here).


  1. Open a new issue on the list. Once signed in, go back to the community list page. Click the Issues tab near the top, then click the green New issue button. Pick "Add new domain" if there's a template option, or just open a blank issue.


  1. Fill out the request. Use this as a template:
    • Title: Add domain for [Your School Name]
    • Body: Please add the following educational institution: School name, country, official website URL, email domain (the part after the @). Optionally include a sentence like "I'm a student here and I'd like to verify my SimplyPrint student discount" — it helps the reviewer understand the context.


  1. Submit the issue. Click Submit new issue. That's it on your end. The community maintainers will review the request, often within a few days, and add your school to the list. You'll get a notification at the email address you signed up with.


  1. Try verification again. Once the maintainers confirm the addition (you'll see a comment on your issue saying it's done), come back to SimplyPrint and run the verification flow again. Your school's email domain should now be recognised.


You're asking other people to do something kind for you for free. A short polite message ("Hi, I'm a student at [school name] and would love to verify my SimplyPrint discount") goes a long way. Don't be discouraged if it takes a few days — the maintainers are volunteers.


What happens after your school is added

  • You'll get a notification from the community list maintainers when your school is added.
  • Open SimplyPrint, go to Settings > Subscription, and click Verify your student status on the eligibility card.
  • Type your school email — it will now be recognised on the first try.
  • Continue with the rest of the verification flow as described in How to apply for the student discount.
  • Every other student at your school can now verify too. If you want to share the love, tell your classmates — they don't need to wait or repeat the request.


If your school happens to already be a SimplyPrint customer (some maker labs and university IT departments run paid SimplyPrint accounts), you'll automatically get the larger 60% discount instead of the standard 40% once you're verified.


A note on bigger institutions

Some universities have several email domains — for example, undergraduate students might be on students.university.edu while staff are on university.edu. Each domain is checked separately.


If your verification still fails after the list has been updated, it may be because the wrong domain was added. Check the actual domain on your own email account, then re-open the community-list request mentioning the extra domain — the maintainers can add additional domains to the same school entry.


For very large institutions, it's also worth asking whoever runs IT at your school whether your university already has a paid SimplyPrint School plan. If they do, you might already have full access through your school's account — and the personal student discount on a side account would still get the larger 60% tier on top of that.



Updated on: 25/05/2026

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