Unable to claim free azure 100$ credit even with student developer pack from Github

Apply directly for Azure for Students using your university-issued email address instead of redeeming through GitHub; GitHub Student Developer Pack approval does not automatically establish eligibility in Azure’s separate verification system.^1^

Apply through direct academic verification

Since you have already followed the GitHub redemption instructions and tried multiple browser sessions, use this different verification path:

1. Open the Azure for Students page.
2. Select Start free.
3. Sign in with the Microsoft identity connected to your institution-issued email address, rather than selecting GitHub authentication.
4. Complete the verification sent to that institutional address.
5. After activation, confirm that Azure for Students appears under Azure portal → Subscriptions.

The email distinction is important:

• If “student Gmail” means an ordinary address ending in @gmail.com, it does not meet the documented institutional-email requirement. Use the address issued by Mae Fah Luang University.
• If the university uses Google Workspace and the address ends in the university’s own domain, use that university-domain address even though Gmail hosts its mailbox.

Azure for Students requires full-time attendance at an accredited, degree-granting institution, academic-status verification through the institution’s email, and—under the current program documentation—affirmation that the applicant is at least 18. The offer is limited to one subscription per eligible customer.^2^

If direct verification still says “not eligible”

Submit an eligibility-review request to Microsoft rather than repeating the signup process:

1. Open the Azure support request page.
2. Choose the closest available category for Subscriptions, Azure for Students, or Azure for Education; the labels displayed can vary.
3. If the portal does not expose an appropriate category, use Azure for Education Support and request a manual eligibility review.
4. Include:
   • The exact error: “You’re not eligible for an Azure free account.”
   • Your country and university name.
   • A screenshot of the rejection, without passwords, verification codes, or other sensitive data.
   • Confirmation that you are currently a full-time student.
   • Your university email domain.
   • Confirmation that direct institutional-email verification also failed.
   • Whether you have ever activated Azure for Students under another Microsoft account.

Ask Support specifically to check:

• Whether the university email domain is recognized for academic verification.
• Whether an earlier Azure for Students eligibility or redemption record is associated with another Microsoft identity.
• Whether the attempted redemption was processed against the wrong signed-in Microsoft account.

Those eligibility and prior-redemption records cannot be inspected or changed through the user-facing Azure portal or by Microsoft Q&A community responders; Microsoft Support can perform the required backend review.^3^ Microsoft’s general Azure signup guidance also directs unresolved subscription signup problems to an Azure support request.^4^

Do not create a pay-as-you-go subscription merely to work around this rejection if the goal is the student credit; it does not resolve the separate Azure for Students eligibility decision.

References

1. Microsoft Azure: Not eligible for free 100$ - Microsoft Q&A
2. What is Azure for Students?
3. Student Account Cannot Be Recognized For Education - Microsoft Q&A
4. Troubleshoot issues when you sign up for a new account in the Azure portal