I promote Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Blender, ImageJ & Fiji among undergraduates and graduate students for the very same reasons – a lifetime of freedom from paying rent to companies that eventually will do an "Adobe" on your work.
Plus the additional advantages that all of these open source software tools offer, among them running on just about any laptop no matter how old, and scripting (don't underestimate what a young, dedicated student without much else to do will accomplish given some examples and a manual).