What happens to a github student account's repositories at the end of 2 years?

Question

I just got upgraded to a free github micro plan using my university email address. I\'m planning to use the private repositories for some class projects this semester, but I\'m

Answer 1

Updated 2020 answer

I had my student account that expired recently and was asked to either provide billing details to continue on pro subscription which now costs USD $4/mo (vs $7/mo previously) or downgrade to a free account.

Downgrading to the free account would still let me keep and access all my private repos (with less number of collaborators allowed I think) while losing access to GitHub Pages and GitHub Wikis within those private repos - so not too bad overall. This is the message that I received while downgrading my account

Recent changes to their pricing, features and billing structure by Microsoft resulted in the following features included as part of the free subscription:

GitHub Free for user accounts

With GitHub Free for user accounts, you can work with unlimited collaborators on unlimited public repositories with a full feature set, and on unlimited private repositories with a limited feature set.

With GitHub Free, your user account includes:

• GitHub Community Support
• GitHub Dependabot alerts
• Two-factor authentication enforcement
• 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 500MB GitHub Packages storage

And the pro account includes the following features:

GitHub Pro

In addition to the features available with GitHub Free for user accounts, GitHub Pro includes:

• GitHub Support via email
• 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 2GB GitHub Packages storage
• Advanced tools and insights in private repositories:
  • Required pull request reviewers
  • Multiple pull request reviewers
  • Auto-linked references
  • GitHub Pages
  • Wikis
  • Protected branches
  • Code owners
  • Repository insights graphs: Pulse, contributors, traffic, commits, code frequency, network, and forks

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products#github-pro