Free University Courses

No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. That’s right, more and more universities are following the open movement and are offering some of their courses for free. And the contenders are not your third class institution, they are international universities of an Ivey league calibre.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access the free MIT courses

There are More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school’s OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and can be translated into a number of different languages.

2. Open University
Access the free Open University course

The Open University is the UK’s largest academic institution. The school’s OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.

3. Carnegie Mellon University
Access the free Carnegie Mellon courses

Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction.

4. Stanford University
Access the free Standford courses on itunes

Stanford University, one of the world’s leading academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes by providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs.

5. University of California, Berkeley
Access the free UCLA courses here

UC Berkley has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of current and archived UC Berkley courses are now available as podcasts and webcasts. Courses cover a wide range of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.

6. University of Southern Queensland
Access the free USQ courses

The University of Southern Queensland in Australia provides free online access to a number of different courses through another OpenCourseWare initiative. Each of the five faculties are available and cover a broad range of topics, including communication, science, career planning, technology, teaching and multimedia creation.

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