American Express has been expanding the ambit of the card acceptance over time in India, and one of their big wins recently has been to go very deep in the educational segment. To promote their reach in the education segment, there is a new American Express Double Membership Rewards Points promotion, offering double Membership Rewards points for paying Educational Expenses such as tuition fees, admission fees and books on their proprietary Credit Cards and Charge Cards between April 9, 2019, and June 30, 2019. This is a renewal of a double points promotion for educational spends which just ended a few days ago.
For the American Express Platinum Card and the American Express Centurion Card, cardmembers will earn one bonus Membership Rewards point on every INR 40 spent at education institutions which accept American Express cards. While there is no list published this time around, here is a reference list from the last promotion.
For the American Express Gold Card/ American Express Platinum Reserve Credit Card/ American Express Platinum Travel Credit Card/ American Express Gold Credit Card/ American Express Membership Rewards Credit Card, members will get 1 Bonus Membership Rewards point in addition to one point earned regularly, on every INR 50 spent at education institutions.
If you don't have an American Express card, you can get the American Express Platinum Travel Credit Card and the American Express Membership Rewards Credit Card free, exclusively through these links. You can read more details in this post.
What is considered educational fee? Paying for GMAT exam counts too?
Our school seems to charge between 3-4% additional for using AMEX so that kills the whole calculation.
There is a site called https://redgirraffe.com/ which enables rent payment for a small fee. For cards with high rewards, it works out fine. I have used it last year.
There are others as well offering the same service.
Also, NoBroker has the same feature.
Thanks. I enjoy reading this website. @ Ajay I would say your review of platinum charge card confirmed my decision to go for the card.