CollegeBudget

CollegeBudget
Industry Student Discount Program
Founded 2011
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Area served
 United States Colleges
Website www.collegebudget.com

CollegeBudget is a website that operates a student discount program. The company, founded in 2011, allows people with .edu e-mail addresses to receive discounts when shopping with participating merchants.[1]

Discounts

Discounts are offered by merchants to the students through CollegeBudget. Merchants only pay for this service, if and when students make a purchase with the discount.

CollegeBudget occasionally features charity deals where proceeds of sales are contributed to a non-profit organization.

Additional features

CollegeBudget also offers textbooks rentals and student loan comparisons.

Spam Allegations & Malicious Activity

Several Universities have reported hijacked accounts flooding .edu email servers attempting to link to CollegeBudget.com as part of a large scale phishing attempt.[2] [3] [4]

History

CollegeBudget was created by the founders of CampusBuddy, a social academic platform.

CollegeBudget was included in the Empact100 list, and as a result invited to the White House for a recognition ceremony.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rip Empson (1 August 2011). "CollegeBudget Brings Daily Deals And Group Buying To Campuses". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ Bell, Ringer. "Spam Floods GRU". GRU.
  3. ↑ Temple, News. "Spam email warning". ISSUU.
  4. ↑ System, Alert. "Email Alert for IL State". ISUU.
  5. ↑ "CollegeBudget Company Description". Empact100.com. Retrieved 2012-03-07.

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