Who can use this feature
Anyone with verified education status can create free Education teams.
You need an existing Figma account before applying for education status.
What is Figma for Education?
Figma for Education provides free Figma access to students and educators.
You can also follow the Figma for Education and Figma Education Creators community groups to access classroom-specific resources.
Note: In August 2025, we updated the verification process for Education teams. Learn more about updates to the verification process.
Feature availability
Figma for Education provides free access to one of two plans:
- K–12 students and K-12 educators get the Enterprise plan.
- Higher education students, higher education educators, and bootcamp participants get the Professional plan.
See what’s included in the Professional and Enterprise plans.
Qualifications
To qualify for Figma for Education, you must be:
- Old enough to consent (by yourself and not by a parent or guardian) to use the services
- A current student or educator in a classroom applying with their school email
If you are a staff member at a school in a non-teaching role, you do not qualify.
Note: Figma for Education is not available in the countries of China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or Syria. The Figma Education plan is not available in the regions of Sevastopol (ISO 3166-2 #40) and Crimia (ISO 3166-2 #43).
What qualifies as a classroom?
Students and educators in online or in-person classes and educational programs are eligible for the Education plan. Some examples are:
- High schools
- Universities, post-graduate institutions, trade schools, polytechnics, or colleges
- Select online courses, bootcamps, or workshops
- Courses, bootcamps, or workshops should have structured, curriculum-based instruction with a teacher or mentor-led model. For more details on requirements, see Step 2: Verify your education status.
- Design and coding academies
What doesn’t qualify as a classroom?
- Self-directed education
- Startups or edtech companies
- "Not-for-profit" or "non-profit" organizations
- Educational programs affiliated with organizations whose primary purpose is not educational
Application process
The application process varies, depending on the type of classroom you’re in.
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K-12 & Higher Education
- Students and educators at K-12 and higher education institutions are able to self-verify for our Education plan using their school email at figma.com/education/apply.
- Once you have been successfully verified, you will have have valid education status for one year.
- If you are still a student or educator at the end of the one year, you must reapply for education status.
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Bootcamps & online courses
- Bootcamp students and educators cannot self-verify. Instead, bootcamps will verify on behalf of their students and educators.
- Verified bootcamp students get 6 months of access.
- Verified bootcamp teachers get 2 years of access and can be re-verified as needed.
Follow each step below for more information on the application process.
1. Create a Figma account
All users must have an existing Figma account before applying for education status or before a bootcamp applies on your behalf. If you have a school-issued email address, please sign up for Figma using that email. If you already have a personal account with Figma, please update the email to your school-issued account before applying.
As part of the sign up process, you are prompted for the following:
- What is your name: This will be your display name in Figma
- What brings you to Figma?: Select School
- What’s your role at school?: Select Student or Educator
- What kind of institution do you attend or work for?: Select K12, Higher Education or Bootcamp or online course
- Will anyone be joining you?: Add students, teammates or skip
- Have you used Figma products before?: Select one
- Which plan would you like?: Click Verify your status under the Professional plan card
2. Verify your education status
You must verify your education status to create a new team or upgrade an existing team to the Education plan.
However, the Education plan is team-specific, not account-wide. Not all teams in your account may be covered under the Education plan. After your education status is approved, you must create an Education team or upgrade an existing team to the Education plan to receive Professional features.
If you join a team on the Education plan before verifying your education status, you will have seven days to verify your education status before access is revoked. After those seven days, you must verify your education status to continue accessing files and projects in that team.
There are different verification methods depending on what type of institution you attend or work for.
Figma partners with SheerID to verify all student and educator applications.
- Log in to Figma using the account you want to verify. If you have a school-issued email address, please use it.
- Visit the Education status application page: https://www.figma.com/education/apply.
- Select Higher Ed as your institution type.
- Agree to the terms of service.
- Click Submit.
- Complete the SheerID form with your school and personal details.
What if SheerID is unable to verify my application?
SheerID will email you within a few days to confirm your eligibility. If they’re unable to verify you, contact the SheerID support team for assistance.
- Log in to Figma using the account you want to verify. You must login with a school-issued email address. Non-school emails will be auto-rejected.
- Visit the Education status application page: https://www.figma.com/education/apply.
- Select K12 as the type of institution you attend or work for.
- Agree to the terms of service.
- Select Student, Educator, or Administrator.
- [If applicable] Select what subject you teach.
- [If applicable] Tell us how you plan to use Figma in your classroom.
- Confirm you are a current student or educator.
- Click Submit.
What if my application is rejected?
- You must apply with your school email to be verified.
- If you applied with your school email but were still rejected, please fill out this short form.
- You were likely rejected because we don't have your school or district's domain in our system yet. Please tell us a bit more information and we will follow up shortly once we have added your school or district's domains.
- If you are a homeschooling educator or student, please email education@figma.com with proof of your status to be manually verified.
Bootcamps will verify on behalf of their students and educators.
- If you are a bootcamp student or educator, there is no action needed from you. Please reach out to your bootcamp directly with any questions.
- If you are a bootcamp admin, you should apply to join our list of trusted partners and verify your students directly. Please read on for the bootcamp qualification requirements:
Required qualifications for approval:
- Educational focus: Clear mission to teach design, tech, or creativity skills with Figma as a core part of the curriculum.
- Structured course: Structured, curriculum-based instruction with a teacher or mentor-led model.
- Legitimate classroom environment: Teaches genuine full- or part-time learners, not commercial teams seeking internal professional development.
- Transparency: Public website showing curriculum, instructors, admissions, and tuition.
- Non-commercial use: Figma is not used for client work, agency projects, or revenue generation.
- Minimum student count: At least 10 students per cohort.
Potential disqualifications:
- Self-directed, unstructured courses: Single-user courses with no teaching, mentorship or community components.
- Independent tutoring: 1:1 or small group tutoring that is not part of a formalized program.
- Trains commercial partners: Hosts one-off or continuous training for commercial clients seeking internal professional development, not full- or part-time learners.
- Lack of authoritative proof: No evidence of bootcamp with a website or social media. Similarly, no curriculum, instructor info, or verifiable student activity.
- For-profit client work: Bootcamps acting as design agencies or offering services to clients.
- Misuse of EDU access: History of sharing accounts, using EDU licenses commercially, or reselling.
3. Create, upgrade, or join a team
- Open the Figma file browser and click Create free team in the sidebar or visit https://www.figma.com/files/create-team.
- Give your team a name and click Create team. You can always change this after the team is created.
- Start inviting students, educators and other collaborators to your team. Anyone you invite with can edit access to the team must verify their education status within seven days.
- Click Continue and then Complete upgrade.
An education team gets access to the Figma Professional plan. When you upgrade an existing team, you must upgrade to the Professional plan then let Figma know you qualify for an education team.
Note: Everyone you invite with can edit access to the team must verify their education status within seven days before they can contribute. It is not possible to have a mix of free education members and paid non-education members on the same Professional team.
- From the file browser, switch to the team you’d like to upgrade and click All projects.
- Click the dropdown menu next to the team name and select View settings.
- Click the prompt to Upgrade your plan.
- Select Upgrade to Professional.
- In the summary on the right, select Yes for the Is this an Education team? option.
- Click Next: Review.
- Click Complete upgrade.
- Figma will upgrade the team to an education team.
4. Invite others to your team
You can invite students, educators, and other collaborators to your team at any time.
Learn more about inviting others to join a team.
If you know a person's email address, you can send them an email invite to join your team. If the person doesn't have a Figma account yet, they can sign up when they accept the invite.
New team members have seven days to verify their email address and education status. After seven days, Figma will restrict their access to the team and they will need to manually verify their education status.
Updates to verification process
We’ve introduced a new verification process for all users on Figma’s Education plan. This updated process is outlined in detail above in the Step 2: Verify your education status section.
- Starting September 4, 2025, all new Education teams must use the updated verification process.
- By September 29, 2025, all existing Education teams must reverify their status using the updated verification process.
As a part of the updated verification process, the following changes apply:
- Bootcamps: Students and educators can no longer self-verify. Bootcamp admins must apply to become a trusted partner and verify students and teachers on their behalf.
- K-12: You must log in with your school email and reverify at https://www.figma.com/education/apply.
- Higher education: You must reverify at https://www.figma.com/education/apply. Figma now partners with SheerID for verification of higher education students and educators.
To verify your education status, review the Step 2: Verify your education status section above.
Yes. All Education teams that were verified prior to August 27, 2025 need to reverify their education status.
If you do not verify your education status by September 29, 2025, your Education team will be downgraded to the free Starter plan.
You will not lose access to any of your existing files, but will lose access to Professional plan features. You will need to reverify your education status to regain access to these features.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Admins can manage and deploy Figma licenses from within the Google Admin Console using the App Licensing System. This takes about 5 minutes to set up once you fill out this form.
Figma also integrates with Google Meet so you can start a file from within a meeting. Plus you can attach Figma files to Calendar events using our Chrome extension and insert files into Docs and Sheets as smartchips.
Yes. Admins can manage and deploy Figma licenses with Microsoft Education. They will be able to use SAML SSO to automatically provision a licenses to each student and educator in their domain. You can get started by filling out this form.
Browse Figma Learn to learn more about how to use Figma products.
For education-specific resources, we recommend:
- Live training: You can sign up for one of our bi-weekly live training sessions. We can also host a free training/PD session at your school anytime. Reach out to us at education@figma.com to schedule.
- Video tutorials: Get started on your own with our YouTube playlist of tutorials.
Figma Make is available to most Education team users. If you are on an Education team and don’t have access to Figma Make, it is because of one of the following reasons:
- You are a K-12 user. K-12 students and educators do not have access to Figma Make.
- You have not yet reverified your education status. In order to access Figma Make, Education team members must complete the updated verification process.
Yes, Figma and FigJam have hundreds of free templates to help you get started quickly. Check out figma.com/@education and figma.com/@k12education for classroom templates and lesson plans.
If you or any of your education customers have questions, please reach out to education@figma.com.