Students can by maya Unlimited for under $400 USD, the rest of us are looking at $7000 USD. How much a break do you want?

There are a significant amount of free tutorials on the web. SM does have some freebies that the starving student can access. So do digital-tutors, and that G workshop place. SM seems to have the comparable pricing standards to all the other video tutorial resources.

They only video tutorial makers that I could find that offers student pricing is Alias itself and its about $15 dollars off a $200 dollar product. You may have better luck with a site such as www.studica.com