GRC student membership: everything the Club offers, for $35
For students in cybersecurity, IT, audit, risk, and compliance programs who want a GRC job lined up before graduation. Your first year is $35 instead of $70, under $3 a month. Same certifications, same labs, same community. Confirm your school email and the code is yours in about a minute.
What membership costs
Monthly
$9.99 /mo
Month to month. Cancel whenever.
Annual
$70 /yr
The standard rate. Two months cheaper than paying monthly.
Student
$35 /yr
50% off your first year, $35 saved. Verified school email required. Renews at $70.
What $35 a year gets you
Every certification
CGE-P, CGE-AUD, and CGE-AZ are all included, not sold separately.
Hands-on cloud labs
Real AWS and Azure compliance work you can point at in an interview.
The private podcast
Practitioners talking about what the job is actually like.
A local chapter
Meet GRC people in your city. Many chapters are near a campus.
Mock interviews
Practise the interview before it counts.
The community
1,300+ GRC professionals who answer questions in Slack.
Confirm your school email
We send a link to the address your school gave you. Clicking it is how we know you are a student, so there is no ID to upload and no form to fill in.
What $35 a year gets you as a student
Club membership is $70 per year, or $9.99 a month. Every certification in the Training Academy is included. Bought one at a time, the three current certifications are $350 each, so $1,050 of credentials come with a membership that costs less than most single exam vouchers.
Students and transitioning veterans pay $35 for their first year with a verified school email or .mil email.
- CGE-P, CGE-AUD, CGE-AZ: training, labs, exam, and certificate, no exam fee
- Hands-on AWS and Azure compliance labs you build in your own account
- Weekly private podcast and live Q&A with working GRC engineers
- Mock interviews, playbooks, and live builder sessions
- Local chapters and a Slack of 1,600+ GRC professionals
- 4 CPE hours a month (48 a year) logged to your transcript, earned through articles, live Q&As, recordings, labs, and courses, to self-report to ISC2, ISACA, IAPP, or GIAC
Student Membership FAQ
Students pay $35 for their first year instead of $70, a saving of $35. You verify with the email address your school issued you. After the first year, membership renews at the regular $70 a year.
We send a link to the email address your school gave you and you click it. That is the whole check. We do not ask for a student ID, a transcript, or a photo of anything.
Tell us and we will add your school, usually within a business day. Our list of academic domains will never be complete, especially outside the US, so a school we have not heard of is our gap and not a judgement about you.
Yes. Same certifications, same labs, same chapters, same community. The student rate changes the price and nothing else.
Nothing breaks. Your first year is $35 and it renews at the standard $70 a year, which is the same thing every other member pays. Cancel any time before renewal if you would rather not continue.
If the school issued you an email address, ask. We would rather add a domain than turn away someone who is genuinely studying.
Yes. The learn library at grcengclub.com/learn is free and open, including the GRC for Students guide, the free GRC training roundup, and the GRC engineering 101 primer. Membership is what adds the certifications, the graded labs, the chapters, and the people.
Start for $35
Not a student? Annual membership is $70 and gets you exactly the same thing.