With students returning to universities this month, many may find it tricky to manage university finances during the ongoing cost of living crisis. To enjoy uni life while keeping to a student budget, it is reported that 87% of students will turn to money-saving websites to avoid paying full price.
With this in mind, Coupon Snake were intrigued to find out which discount websites are the most popular and cost effective among students. To do this, they collected Google monthly search volumes and the average discount of each website, revealing the most popular money-saving websites for students in 2023!
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Key Findings:
- Unidays is the most popular student discount website with 133,000 monthly searches on average.
- Unidays also ranks as the most cost effective website with over 21% off on average.
- Although Student Beans ranks second, it has the largest number of deals for students.
The top 5 most popular student discount websites
|
Rank |
Website Name |
Average monthly search volumes |
|
1 |
133,000 |
|
|
2 |
109,000 |
|
|
3 |
52,000 |
|
|
4 |
19,000 |
|
|
5 |
3,500 |
Coupon Snake can reveal that Unidays is crowned the most popular student discount website in the UK, with 133,000 monthly search volumes on average. With a global market across 115 regions, it has an average of nearly 700,000 global Google searches. Offering discounts for both current university students and alumni, Unidays has a good number of exclusive and limited time deals for students worldwide to save on everything!
Ranking second is Student Beans, with 109,000 average monthly searches. As the world’s leading student loyalty network, it offers exclusive discounts to students across various categories, including fashion, beauty, travel, health, tech and food. It currently has connected 175 million students worldwide,helping Gen Z to save money on popular brands.
Coming in third place is VoucherCodes, which has 52,000 Google monthly searches on average. Unlike the above, VoucherCodes is a discount website finding the best deals for everyone, but it also has a dedicated page for verified students in the UK.
The most cost effective student discount websites
|
Rank |
Name |
Average for Food & Drink |
Average for Fashion |
Average for Technology |
Average discount for all 3 categories |
|
1 |
Unidays |
25.7% |
20.0% |
23.2% |
21.6% |
|
2 |
Student Beans |
19.6% |
20.4% |
19.2% |
20.1% |
|
3 |
TOTUM |
27.9% |
17.5% |
19.3% |
18.9% |
|
4 |
Vouchercodes |
26.8% |
15.2% |
14.0% |
15.7% |
Coupon Snake can reveal that Unidays is the most cost effective student discount website when it comes to three main shopping categories: Food & Drink, Fashion and Technology. It offers more than 300 student discounts among the three categories with an average discount amount of 21.6%, higher than all other discount websites reviewed. It also has the best discount for technology (23.6%), making it the perfect site/app to browse if you need university supplements such as laptop, tablets or mobile plans.
Student Beans comes in second, saving students slightly more than 20% in all these three categories. Student Beans also has the largest number of discounts in the three categories reviewed including over 600 deals for fashion brands and sites. It offers an average student discount of 20.4% for fashion brands, higher than other websites’ fashion offers.
TOTUM ranks third with an average discount of 18.9% for the three categories. Previously known as NUS extra, TOTUM discounts and memberships are available to any students age 16 or over in a UK school, college, sixth form or university. With an average discount of 27.9% for food and restaurants, it has the best savings on food for students. 
