Google Cloud for Students
Advance your career by learning Google Cloud at your own pace, earning Cloud Certificates and skill badges, building projects, and connecting with student communities.
Build your future with Google Cloud
Learn at your own pace.
Complete the online program on your own terms. Learn in-demand skills on your schedule and advance your career.
Prepare for in-demand roles.
In the U.S. alone, there are over 505,000 open entry-level roles1 related to a Cloud Cybersecurity Analyst, with a median annual salary of $135,000.2 Make your resume competitive with credentials from Google.
Join a supportive peer community.
Gain access to Developer Student Clubs or attend online events to get hands-on experience.
Google Cloud offers students access to a tailored learning program that lets them perform hands-on labs, earn badges, and demonstrate skills to employers in high-growth fields.
Step 1: Learn with Google Cloud Skills Boost
Students can request access to free online labs, skill badges, and courses through Google Cloud Skills Boost. Follow a defined plan or build and curate your own path to working and thriving in a cloud-first workplace.
200 free Google Cloud Skills Boost credits
Credits expire one year after they are issued
Step 2: Earn skill badges
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud. Complete a series of hands-on labs and the challenge lab final assessment to receive a skill badge credential you can share with your network.
Demonstrate your technical skills
Post a skill badge to LinkedIn
Step 3: Earn a Google Cloud Certificate
Students who want to position themselves well to secure employment working with Google Cloud can go further by earning a shareable digital credential with Google Cloud Certificates.
Preview at no-cost on YouTube
No prerequisites required
Step 4: Explore careers
More than 90% of IT leaders want to grow their cloud environments in the next several years, but the majority of them feel their employees lack the skills and knowledge to achieve this growth.3
Learn more about how a Google Cloud skill badge can support cloud skill development and career growth
Join a community
Connect with a community of Googlers, student experts, and fellow new Google Cloud learners who can share their experience and insights with you.
Join your local Google Developer Student Club or apply to create a new chapter on your campus.
Attend live and on-demand Google Cloud events through the Cloud OnAir events platform.
Watch tutorials to learn about what it means to be a student developer and how to grow the skill set needed to flourish in your future career.
Experience the impact
Explore real stories of students learning and building with Google Cloud.
When you're trying to build something that helps people, especially those you know personally, it gives you a warm feeling on the inside, as if you just struck gold.
Tejas Shah, Student, Diablo Valley College
Take the next step
Sign up to receive periodic emails about learning programs, free credits, certifications, career opportunities, and more.
Earn skill badges
Explore and enrollJoin a Google Developer Student Club
Find a chapterPrepare for a career at Google
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