Many companies extend the same offer to non-US educational institutions by a domain list. For example, here's the JetBrains repository - https://github.com/Jet

Many companies extend the same offer to non-US educational institutions by a domain list. For example, here's the JetBrains repository - https://github.com/JetBrains/swot https://github.com/JetBrains/swot - of worldwide educational institution domains that they are using for validation of their educational licenses; a smaller organization can probably piggyback off of it or a similar list instead of maintaining their own.