General Discounts
Software and Tech
Product | Description | Discount |
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Microsoft Office 365 | Available to students and teachers. This includes the online versions of Office plus 1 TB of online storage. | FREE |
Autodesk | 3ds Max, AutoCad, Maya, and many more products from AutoDesk. | FREE |
Microsoft Dreamspark | Includes software like Visual Studio, Microsoft Mathematics, and more. | FREE |
JetBrains Developer Tools | Offers a multitude of IDEs and code editors for programmers. | FREE |
Prezi | Cinematic presentation software that gives your presentations a little more pizzaz. | FREE |
HP Academy | HP's official student discount program, with free shipping on all orders, personalized product reccomendations help, and many more benefits. | Up to 20% Off |
If you don't find the software you're looking for in this list, you might be able to access it at one of the NYU Computer Labs.
Subscriptions
Service | Description | Discount |
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Adobe CC | Available to students and teachers. Includes a ridiculous amount of software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and more. | 60% Off |
HBO GO and MAX GO | Because how else are you going to watch every season of Game of Thrones a week before finals? However, be aware that this offer is not available to all NYU Students, only those living in certain residence halls during certain semesters qualify. To see if you are eligible, check here. | FREE |
Lynda.com | A vastly large video site dedicated to e-learning. The high quality videos cover a wide variety of topics, such as programming, graphic design, editing, and more. | FREE |
Amazon Student Prime | Free 2-day shipping, and many more benefits depending on how long your are a member, including Amazon Video. | FREE 6 Month trial, 50% afterwards |
NY Times | Offers both print and digital options. Provides access to articles and blog posts, as well as video, slide shows and other multimedia features. | Offers vary, for digital, $1 a week |
Travel and Transportation
Company | Description | Discount |
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Delta Air Lines | Delta Air Lines is the new preferred airline of New York University for domestic and international air travel. | 2-7% Off |
Etihad Airways | Etihad Airways is the new preferred airline of New York University for air travel to Abu Dhabi. | 10-40% Off |
Acela Express | Acela Express service operates along the Amtrak Northeast Corridor. | 5-20% Off |
Avis/Enterprise | Avis and Enterprise are NYU's two preferred rental car agencies, both offering discounts to the NYU community. | Discounts vary |
Carey/Embarque | Carey International, a global leader in ground transportation and car services, is an NYU preferred vendor. Carey International offers two brands of services: Carey and Embarque. | Discounts vary |
NYU Bike Share | The NYU Bike Share offers daily bike rentals to NYU students, faculty, and staff. BIkes must be returns on the same day that they are borrowed. | FREE |
For a full list of discounted hotels across the world, click here.
Many parking garages in NYC offer disocunt rates to NYU faculty and students. See the full list here.
NYU is part of the Meor Network and regularly does trips on Jewish Heritage within their program. For more information on the various trips that they offer, go up to the "Programs" tab on their website and browse freely from there.
Textbooks
Vendor | Buy | Download | Rent | Sell |
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http://www.half.ebay.com/textbooks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
http://www.textbooks.com/ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
http://www.campusbooks.com/ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
http://www.bigwords.com/ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
http://www.slugbooks.com/ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
http://tandon-books.com/ | ✔ |
Museums
Museum | Description | Location | Discount |
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El Museo del Barrio | The museum features an extensive collection of around 8,500 pieces composed of pre-Columbian and traditional artifacts, particularly a large permanent Taíno exhibit, as well as 20th century arts and crafts, graphics and popular media, Mexican masks, textiles from Chile and photographs and traditional art from Puerto Rico. There are often temporary exhibits on Puerto Rican and Latino modern art. | 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029 | Free admission and 10% discount at museum store and at El Cafe. |
Grey Art Gallery | Patron and founder of the museum and study center, Mrs. Abby Weed Grey collected some 800 works of contemporary art on her travels throughout India, Turkey, and Iran, including works by modernist sculpture Parviz Tanavoli, and artists Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Siah Armajani, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, and Faramarz Pilaram. | 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003 | Free admission |
Museum of the City of New York | The museum's collection of over 1.5 million items – which is particularly strong in objects dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries – include paintings, drawings, prints, including over 3000 by Currier and Ives, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, antique toys – the museum was the first in the United States to establish a curatorial department for toys – ship models, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection which documents the golden age of Broadway theater. There are also dioramas about the city's history as well as its physical environment. | 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029 | Free admission for you and one guest, and 10% discount at museum store. |
Museum of Modern Art | The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film and electronic media. The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. | 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019 | Free admission and free tickets to films at MoMA. |
Museum of the Moving Image | The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film and electronic media. The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. | 36-01 35th Avenue, Queens, NY 11106 | Free admission and 15% discount at museum store and at cafe. |
New Museum | It is among the few contemporary art museums worldwide exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world.The Museum presents the work of under-recognized artists, and has mounted ambitious surveys of important figures such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnarowicz, Paul McCarthy and Andrea Zittel before they received widespread public recognition. | 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002 | Free admission |
Rubin Museum of Art | The Rubin Museum of Art is dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art and cultures of the Himalayas, India and neighboring regions, with a permanent collection focused particularly on Tibetan art. | 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 | Free admission |
The Frick Collection | The Frick is one of the pre-eminent small art museums in the United States, with a high-quality collection of old master paintings and fine furniture housed in six galleries within the former residence. The collection features some of the best-known paintings by major European artists, as well as numerous works of sculpture and porcelain. It also has 18th century French furniture, Limoges enamel, and Oriental rugs. | 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021 | Free admission |
The Jewish Museum | The museum has over 26,000 objects including paintings, sculptures, archaeological artifacts, Jewish ceremonial art and many other pieces important to the preservation of Jewish history and culture. This represents the largest collection of Jewish art, Judaica and broadcast media outside of museums in Israel. | 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 | Free admission and 10% discount at museum store. |
The New-York Historical Society | The New-York Historical Society holds an extensive collection of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of the United States and New York. It presents deeply researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Slavery in New York, The Hudson River School, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Tiffany designer Clara Driscol, and the history of the Constitution. | 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 | Free admission and 10% discount at museum store. |
The Studio Museum in Harlem | The Studio Museum's permanent collection contains approximately 2000 works, including drawings, pastels, prints, photographs, mixed-media works and installations. It comprises works created by artists during their residencies, as well as pieces given to the Museum to create a historical framework for artists of African descent. | 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027 | Free admission and 10% discount at museum store. |
Whitney Museum of American Art | The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection comprises more than 21,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,000 artists. It places a particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists for its collection as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection containing many important pieces from the first half of the last century. The museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and less well-known artists whose work is showcased there. | 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014 | Free admission and 20% discount on select items at museum store and 10% discount at the Studio Cafe. |
Museum descriptions taken from Wikipedia. Up to date information on which museums are still available for students can be found here.
Mobile Carrier Discounts
For more information on discounts for students, http://www.studentrate.com/ is a great resource.
For discounts on mac apps, go to http://www.macappdeals.com/students/