Oracle Academy Cloud Program
US$300 in Oracle Cloud credits for a year for Oracle Academy students
What you get from Oracle Academy Cloud Program for free
Overview
The Oracle Academy Cloud Program gives Oracle Academy Institutional members, and their students anywhere, access to Oracle Cloud. Member educators and their students receive US$300 of free credits valid for one year, in addition to Always Free resources that carry no expiration.
What You Get
- US$300 in Oracle Cloud credits valid for one year, usable on eligible OCI services including compute, storage, Kubernetes, and OCI Generative AI.
- Always Free resources with no time limit: 2 AMD micro VMs, 2 OCPUs + 12 GB RAM of Arm Ampere A1 capacity, 200 GB block storage, 2 Oracle Autonomous AI Databases (1 OCPU and 20 GB each), 20 GB object storage, and 10 TB/month outbound data transfer.
- Free developer tooling: Oracle APEX, SQL Developer Web, SQL Notebooks for machine learning, Oracle REST Data Services, and Oracle Instant Client.
- Oracle Academy curriculum covering database design and SQL, PL/SQL, Java, and APEX application development.
How to Get Started
- Check whether your institution already appears in the Oracle Academy member directory.
- If not, a faculty member applies to join Oracle Academy as an Institutional member.
- Once approved, an educator signs in to the member site and provisions student accounts.
- Students sign in to the Oracle Cloud console with the credentials they receive.
When the US$300 credit expires after one year, Always Free resources continue at no cost.
Before you claim
- Startups verification: Confirm your company details (age, funding, or website) to claim.
- Students verification: Confirm your student status (school email or student ID) to claim.
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- US$300 of free credits valid for one year
- Always Free resources with no expiration (2 AMD micro VMs; 2 OCPUs + 12 GB Ampere A1; 200 GB storage; 2 Autonomous AI Databases per Oracle's current Always Free docs)
- Requires Oracle Academy Institutional membership (free, applied for by faculty)
- Educators provision student accounts; students cannot self-enrol
Eligibility
- Your institution must be an Oracle Academy Institutional member. Membership is free but must be applied for by faculty at an accredited institution.
- Educators provision student cloud accounts from the Oracle Academy member site; students cannot enrol individually.
- Access is for teaching, learning, and not-for-profit academic research. Commercial use is prohibited under the membership agreement.
Not eligible? 3 alternatives open to everyone
This offer is only for students. These offers have no student, startup, nonprofit or country requirement.
- Anthropic Academy free courses — Free AI courses from AnthropicAnthropic · Verified · No card
- Anyscale $100 Free Signup Credit — $100 in Anyscale credits for CPU and GPU compute on Ray, no cardauthkit.anyscale.com · Verified · No card
- Hetzner Community Tutorial Credits — Up to EUR 50 in Hetzner Cloud credit per accepted community tutorialgithub.com · Verified · No card
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