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StudentUniverse

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StudentUniverse has a rating of 4.1 stars from 5,439 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with StudentUniverse most frequently mention good experience, customer service and easy process. StudentUniverse ranks 1st among Student Travel sites.

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Peru
1 review
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Quick, honest, easy and the best prices in the market. At a time where all tavel websites use cookies to spike up prices if you take longer o hesitate to buy the first time. Student Universe is the only platform out there with a mission to look after the consumer.

Date of experience: November 7, 2023
Illinois
1 review
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Great!
September 15, 2024

I was able to find the flight I wanted at a discount! So wonderful

Date of experience: September 5, 2024
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Flight cancelled within an hour of booking due to covid.
Rung up straight away was told refund had been applied.
7 weeks later (and numerous emails) still no refund. I have checked with my bank to see if the refund is pending and nothing.
I have been continually told it is my banks fault, despite my bank checking and me also receiving refinds from other companies in the meantime.

Hideous, do not book with them unless you want to gift them $300!

Date of experience: June 21, 2020
Rachel B. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi there, we're sorry to hear your refund hasn't been processed. We'd be happy to make sure this gets resolved for you—could you send us your reservation code and email address by private message please so we can look into this for you? Thanks! :)

California
1 review
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Easy to buy,much cheaper
May 16, 2024

The website interface is clean and intuitive, making it easy for me to find the flight information I need. The prices are also very reasonable, much cheaper than other websites.

Date of experience: May 6, 2024
California
1 review
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Was skeptical but it's legit.
April 27, 2023

I was routed from Kayak to the StudentUniverse site and was able to book a flight for less money on a good airline. I was skeptical and googled the site for potential "scams" but it's legit. We bought a flight and we were able to call them to make sure we got the ticket issued so we could buy a seat. The reservation did not enable us to pick a seat at the time of purchase.

Date of experience: April 27, 2023
Taylor T. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi Connor, thanks for the review! Our customer service team has reached out regarding the seat selection. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

Louisiana
1 review
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Great Service
December 15, 2022

This was my first time booking through student universe and it was a great experience and affordable prices, especially for round trips except that I did not see any student discount. The person that referred me mentioned a student discount and was looking forward to that.

Date of experience: December 15, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
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Misleading information
December 12, 2022

Bought 2 tickets to go to Europe. Bought economy from StudentUniverse which was basic economy on the airlines reservation, which would translate in $400 extra luggage fees!
Canceled a few hours after booking, canceled the insurance also. StudentUniverse reimbursed the insurance cancellation fees. I appreciate it!

Date of experience: November 12, 2022
California
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There's always hidden fees and shady airlines
November 24, 2022

This waa supposed to not have hidden fees and there are. Also, no way to contact airlines to follow up and complete booking. Deplorable. Last time I use this. Ended up spending more than on google flights.

StudentUniverse attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: October 25, 2022
California
1 review
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Love the experience
December 7, 2023

Even though the server was down at the first few hours, I can see your staff working really late at night to bring back the server. And I had a good experience when talking to one of your staff over the phone, he was supportive and informative, really like this shopping experience.

Date of experience: December 7, 2023
Indiana
1 review
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Great customer service!
May 5, 2023

When I first tried booking my flight, I received an error saying that the flight could not be booked. No more than a minute after that, Catherine from Student Universe called me and helped sort everything out. The price of the flight increased from when we selected the seats, so that's why we received the error, but Catherine helped rebook us over the phone. Thank you!

Date of experience: May 5, 2023
Taylor T. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

You are very welcome! Our customer service team is available 24/7 and we are more happy to provide any assistance!

Nebraska
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Good
August 31, 2024

I like it's good, as I booked the ticket, it showed one week and I'm like and then my tickets was here so I'm happy

Date of experience: August 21, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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These airlines are not student friendly or helpful. They only care about getting money out of our pockets and nothing. No service, no availability. I don't understand how they use covid as a reason for their irresponsive behavior. Other big airlines are pretty much helpful especially in covid times. Please don't book a ticket in this website. All they could give was some automatic reply. They will make you wait in line for a single call for hours. I don't know if they are trying to act busy since they are just some fake company that only takes people money. If you want to reschedule your flight, they will cost the difference equal to new flight. They will always squander your money without any proper service. I have been trying to reach them for three days but no avail. Please please dont use this website. You are going to just lose some money.

Date of experience: December 20, 2021
Rachel B. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi there, we're sorry you feel this way! We always strive for good customer service, but since our primary customer care team was hit with a typhoon over the weekend, all the internet and phone lines were down and intermittent for several days. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused. When you need to reschedule a flight, we are required to abide by the rules and fees set by each airline. If there's anything in particular we can help with, please DM us your email and reservation code.

Georgia
1 review
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They are kind of cheating. They are a fraud company looting money from people. If you want to lose your money so you can go with StudentUniverse.
They loot $1200 from me. I so regret when I booked ticket from them. Don't do book ticket from this scam operation buyer beware if you don't lose your money.
They only want your money and are done with you once they have it, greedy selfish shady operators.
My lesson tells everybody to avoid them for your safety. They just want to hurt your wallet and your bank.

Date of experience: December 17, 2018
Rachel B. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi there, We're really sorry to hear you had a negative experience with us. We'd like to look into this for you and see what we can do. Could you send us a direct message with your email address and your StudentUniverse invoice number or confirmation number so we could look into your situation further? Thanks!

Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Awful company
December 30, 2018

This company is a $#*! show. I wish I would have read the reviews before I booked. I wasn't told a flight was cancelled and was going to be left hundreds of miles away from my destination in another country. Their customer service was nice at first and helped me rebook. HOWEVER, later on I got an email stating my arrival time is different than what we agreed on so I called to see if my original flight was back on. They reviewed my flight and even though the original flight wasn't cancelled they would only put me back on for an additional fee even though it was my original plan. Then, after talking to the supervisor she told me the flight was still cancelled and she asked me who told me it was back on... LIKE YOU DID? Overall, this has been a big waste of time and money. The prices were comparable to other companies and they're nothing special. As someone who travels abroad often, I will never book with them again.

Date of experience: December 30, 2018
Rachel B. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi Ashley, We're really sorry to hear about your frustrating experience. Could you send us your StudentUniverse confirmation or invoice number so we can look into this further for you and try to make things right?
Best,
Rachel

Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It was my first but GREAT EXPERIENCE with them.
November 11, 2023

It was the first time I purchased my flight ticket with them so I was so skeptic. Very straightforward website! Hours later I contacted them to ask for the e ticket. The gentleman was so polite and while on the phone he sent me the e ticket and gave me some necessary information. The trust was built when I talked to him. I wish them success. Thank you StudentUniverse.

Date of experience: November 11, 2023
California
1 review
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I was getting same/ lesser offer from other websites. I used studentuniverse because my friend referred me. I wanted to use his referral code so that he and I get discount. I did not get any code.
I also wanted to use promo code for new user. But it did not get apply either.
So there was/ is no point using studentuniverse.

StudentUniverse attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: October 11, 2022
Taylor T. StudentUniverse Rep
over a year old

Hi, sorry that we could not verify you were referred by the account you mentioned. Could you confirm you did use the referral link to register your account? And don't worry about the referral code; we've sent you a $40 promo code for the inconvenience. Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!

India
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Good experience
November 28, 2023

It was a good experience since I got the cheapest flight with flexibility through student universe. However during the payment stage I was a bit confused because because after clicking to confirm payment the website was loading for a long time for confirmation so I was very much tensed that time.

Date of experience: November 28, 2023
Maryland
1 review
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I've had to cancel two flights within 24 hours of booking. Both times got quickly onto a real human operator, who cancelled and fully refunded flights immediately. I've also booked a number of other flights through StudentUniverse, and they're normally some of the cheapest around and are ticketed immediately.

Date of experience: September 13, 2018
Arizona
1 review
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Easy to use and to get assistance. They have actually cheep flights, my life would have been more fun if i knew about studentUniverse years ago. I found the flight I wanted quickly, flights offered were cheep and good flights, and I was charged the price listed and got, for an extra $5, a 72 hour full refund canceled. And there were no weird extra charges. I needed to add my TSA and frequent flier number and chatted with the message box and they responded quickly and didn't make me feel completely useless for not being able to figure out all the parts on my own. After that I everything was done and there where no mishaps with the plane, it was just normal boring flight.

Date of experience: September 13, 2018
Maryland
1 review
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Good routing, bad baggage pricing
March 30, 2023

SU had the lowest price for a route not available on other sites. Turned out to be a 'hacker' route that required paying for baggage and seats on both legs of the 'connecting' flight. SU collected a fee for the baggage at purchase which turned out to be 30% of the true baggage costs. SU refunded me the baggage costs that it collected and I was on my own to pay $500+ for bags. Not very good.

Date of experience: February 28, 2023