1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you take the course for a certificate/credential, you’ll be charged a fee, and we will receive a commission from our affiliate partners–Coursera, FutureLearn and edX. Humanities & Social Sciences Archaeology Courses Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Reading Hannibal — Free Online Course — Patrick Hunt, Stanford Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard Roman Art and Archaeology — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David Soren, University of Arizona The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Sapienza University of Rome Wonders of Ancient Egypt — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania Architecture Courses Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes — Free Online Course — Jan Wampler, MIT History of Architecture - Free Online Course — Jacqueline Gargus, Ohio State Making Architecture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — IE School of Architecture and Design Roman Architecture — Free Online Course - Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale Sustainability in Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University Polytechnic Valencia The Architectural Imagination — Free Online Video — Multiple instructors, Harvard Theory of City Form — Free Online Course — Julian Beinart, MIT Art & Art History Courses Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art - Free Online Video — James Grant, Oxford University Art Through Time: A Global View — Free Online Video — Annenberg Media Digital Photography — Free Online Course — Dan Armendariz, Harvard Effective Fundraising and Leadership in Arts

and Culture — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Leeds European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Fashion as Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art Foundations of American Cyber-Culture — Free Online Video — UC Berkeley In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy — Free Online Video — Stephen Carpenter II and Lawrence Susskind, MIT Introduction to Digital Photography — Free Online Course — Marc Levoy, Stanford/Google Introduction to Visual Design - Free Online Course — Carnegie Mellon Introduction to Visual Thinking — Free Online Video — John McNamara, UC Berkeley Islamic Calligraphy: An Introduction to the Art of Handwriting — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Malaya Italian Renaissance — Free Online Course — Dr. Vida Hull, East Tennessee State University Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting — Free Online Course — Lloyd Reynolds, Reed College Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines & Narrative in Paintings at Yale — Free Online Video — John Walsh, Yale Modern Art & Ideas — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art Photography Lectures from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) — Free Online Lectures Seeing Through Photographs — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Museum of Modern Art Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Melbourne SmARThistory Video Lectures — Free Online Video/Audio — Beth Harris, MoMA & Steven Zucker, Pratt Institute Teaching Critical Thinking through Art with the National Gallery of Art — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) The Elements of Drawing — Free Online Course — Stephen Farthing, Oxford University What Is Contemporary Art? —

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The University of Tokyo Classics Courses Ancient Greece: City and Society – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University – Australia Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale Ancient Israel – Free Online Course – Daniel Fleming, NYU Ancient Philosophy – Free Online Audio – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley Epics of Rome – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia Greek and Roman Mythology – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Pennsylvania Hannibal – Free Online Audio– Patrick Hunt, Stanford Roman Architecture – Free Online Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale The Ancient Greek Hero — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Gregory Nagy, Harvard The Ancient Greeks — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Wesleyan The Philosophy of Tragedy – Free Online Video – Prof. Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College The Roman World – Free iTunes Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University – Australia Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – Free iTunes Audio – Susanna Braund, Stanford University Communication Courses Argument Diagramming — Free Web Course — Carnegie Mellon Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show — Free Online Course — MIT Business Fundamentals: Effective Communication — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Open University Communication Skills and Teamwork — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Fullbridge Communication Skills for Bridging Divides — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Catalyst Design and Make Infographics — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Michigan State Effective Business Presentations with Powerpoint — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — PricewaterhouseCoopers Freedom of Speech and the

Press — Free Online Video — William B. Turner, UC Berkeley How to Speak — Free Online Video — Patrick Winston, MIT Improving Communication Skills — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania/Wharton Introduction to Communication Science — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Amsterdam Introduction to Public Speaking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Washington Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety — Free iTunes Video — Margaret Swisher and Barbara Myslik , UC Davis Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Harvard University Rhetoric — Free Online Course — Stanley Fish, Cardozo School of Law Storytelling — Free Online Course — Pixar/Khan Academy The Craft of Writing Effectively — Free Online Video — Larry McEnerney, UChicago Design Courses Cars: Past, Present & Future — Free Online Course — Michael Shanks, Stanford Crash Course in Design Thinking — Free Online Course — Stanford Design Thinking for Leading and Learning — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — MIT/Microsoft Design Thinking for Innovation — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia Digital Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Everything I Know — Free Online Lectures — Buckminster Fuller Fashion as Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Museum of Modern Art Ideas from the History of Graphic Design — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)- Cal Arts Product Design: The Delft Design Approach — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Delft University of Technology Visual Design — Web Course — Carnegie Mellon Economics & Finance Courses Advanced Political Economy - Free Online Video — Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney Against All Odds: Inside Statistics — Free Online Course — Pardis Sabeti, Harvard American Capitalism: A History — YouTube — Accompanying Book — Louis Hyman & Edward Baptist, Cornell American Economic History

(Syllabus) — Free Online Video — Free Audio — Martha Olney, UC Berkeley American Economic History — Free Online Video — Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst Austrian Economics: An Introduction — Free Online Audio — Murray N. Rothbard — New York Polytechnic University Behavioral Finance — Free Online Video — Steven Keen, University of Western Sydney Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform — Free iTunes Video — Free iTunes Audio — Free Online Video — Course Materials — Douglas W. Rae, Yale Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Virginia Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Pennsylvania/Wharton Development Economics - Free Online Video — Esther Duflo, MIT Development Economics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason Development Economics: Macroeconomics — Free Online Video — Course Info — Robert Townsend, MIT Economic Democracy: The Cooperative Alternative — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — University of Edinburgh Economics: Consumer Demand — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Babson Economics of Money and Banking — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Columbia University Economic Geography of the Industrial World — Free Online Video — Richard Walker, UC Berkeley. Economic History of the Soviet Union — Free Online Video — Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U. Economics of the Media — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies — Free Online Video — Course Info — Richard Schmalensee, MIT Everyday Economics — Free Online Video — Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok, George Mason Finance Theory 1 - Free Online Video — Free Online Video & Course Info — Andrew Lo, MIT Financial Markets — Free Online Course — Robert Shiller, Yale (also Nobel Prize Winner) Financial Markets — Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Robert Shiller, Yale Financial Markets 2011 — Free Online Video — Free iTunes Audio — Course Materials —