Student UGC Creators

What brands hire student creators for

Students film dorm rooms, study sessions and tight budgets, which is the brief for study apps, tech accessories, food delivery, budget beauty and back-to-school campaigns. Plan around exam periods, when turnaround slows down.

This page lists 269 student creators from the UGC Agent index, updated at the October 2026 export. 94% publish on Instagram and 6% on TikTok, with a median of 1,785 followers. The deepest country pools are the United States and Mexico. Filter the sample below by platform, follower band or country, then run the same brief inside UGC Agent for verified emails and fit scores.

How student creators compare

The median creator here has 1,785 followers, above the index median of 1,680. 6% post on TikTok against 7% across the index, and 32% link a portfolio site against 34.4% overall.

55% of them carry no niche label in the index at all, which is why this list is built from the creator's own bio rather than from the niche taxonomy: a niche search would not surface them.

By niche label, the largest overlaps are beauty (13%), fitness (11%), tech (7%), fashion (7%). Labels overlap, so a creator can count towards more than one.

By bio language: English (63%), Spanish (28%), Portuguese (3%).

Many also fit another persona: healthcare professionals (15), moms (14), running (9).

Only 18% of the 269 student creators have more than 10,000 followers; 42% are in the 1k to 5k range and 30% are under 1,000, with a median of 1,785. Follower figures are shown as bands because exact counts drift between exports. 32% link a portfolio site from their profile, a useful second signal that they take briefs.

Where student creators are based

By country, the largest pools of student creators are United States (50), Mexico (18), Chile (16). Country is only known for creators whose profile states it, so treat these as a floor, not the full picture.

After that come United Kingdom (16), Argentina (13), Spain (12). The six together account for 125 creators. Each country link opens the students list for that market, with its own table, platform split, and follower bands, which is the quickest way to check whether a market has enough depth for a ten-creator test before you brief.

What student creators cost

Mapped to the calculator's tiers, 72% of student creators are nano (under 5k followers), 26% sit between 5k and 50k, and 1% are above 50k. The index's bands are coarser than the tiers, so treat the middle group as a mix of micro and mid. In practice most quotes from this pool will land in the nano and micro columns.

For the full benchmarks behind this table see nano influencer rates, micro influencer rates, ugc video rates.

2026 benchmark, estimates from the UGC Agent rate model and public rate cards. Not a quote and not drawn from the creator index. Build an itemised rate card for your brief with the UGC rate calculator, or compare a reach-based quote with the influencer rate calculator.