These U.S. Colleges Provide Free Online Courses

You can take online classes at the country’s most esteemed colleges – Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale and more – for free. These free online courses don’t come with college credit, but there is definitely value to this. 

For high school and college students, exploring these free courses can help you choose the right major. It offers a chance to improve your grades in your classes, increasing your chances for scholarships. Depending on the course, you can learn new skills to add to your resume, giving you an edge when it comes time to apply for internships or a job. 

If you miss a class at your regular college or need some extra help on a topic, you can watch a specific lecture on that topic at one of these online classes. 

There are also U.S. colleges that offer free tuition and countries with free public tuition, too. 

List of Colleges Offering Free Online Courses 

• EdX (Harvard and MIT)

• iTunesU (Stanford University)

• MIT OpenCourseware (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Open Courseware Consortium

• Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons

• Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Open Yale Courses (Yale University)

• OpenCourseWare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• OpenCourseWare (Tufts University)

• OpenCourseWare (University of Notre Dame)

• School of Public Health (Johns Hopkins University)

• Stanford Online (Stanford)

• YouTube EDU (University of California at Berkeley)

• University of the People

Other Platforms Offering Free Online Classes

While the following aren’t from accredited colleges, these spots also offer free online courses and lectures on popular topics. Some aren’t free, but offer free trials to online courses. 

• Alison

• Coursera

• Khan Academy

• Learn@Forbes (free 30-day trial)

• LinkedIn Learning (free one month trial)

• Skillshare (free two month trial)

• Udemy 

If you’re looking for to take college courses for credit and for free, it’s time to find scholarship money. And of course, it’s a must to fill out the FAFSA to see if you qualify for grants (also free money) and financial aid. 

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