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Among the many cloud storage services available today, Dropbox has continued to stand out from the pack by providing lots of ways to earn extra free storage. They offer an additional 500MB for referrals, and 125MB for connecting a Facebook account, following Dropbox on Twitter, or just providing feedback. Today the company announced a new way to get an even bigger boost to your storage limit: The Great Dropbox Space Race.

By registering a college email address and installing the Dropbox client, youll earn points for your school. As the schools point total climbs, everyone who participates can earn extra free storage for the next two years. Each person gets an extra 3GB just for signing up for the Space Race, but if the school reaches the top tier, the total bonus space will hit 25GB.

If youve already got a Dropbox account thats registered with a non-school email account, you can still participate by verifying your school address on the Space Race page. By registering youll earn 1 point for your school, and you can then tack on an additional 2 points by going through the Dropbox Get Started guide. If you refer one of your classmates to the promotion, youll also earn 1 point when he or she registers, and 2 when he or she completes the guide. And all of those referrals will still earn you the usual 500MB bonus.

There are four reward levels of 3GB, 8GB, 15GB, and 25GB. The number of points needed to reach them are different for each school, and are normalized according to the schools total enrollment. So even if youre at a smaller school, youve still got a shot at hitting that 25GB mark.

Read more at the Dropbox blog

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Get an extra 25GB of storage in the Dropbox Great Space Race