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16 Universities with the Best Free Online Courses

There is no need to worry over tuition fees? There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list itemised several best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field of studies.

USA

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: If you are looking for a wide range of free courses offered online, MIT is your best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare project.

2. Open University: The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others.

3. Carnegie Mellon University: Get free materials, activities and assessments for your self-guided learning. Use these interactive courses to earn credits at your school or university.

4. Tufts University: Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

5. Stanford on iTunes U: Stanford University, one of the world's leading academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews.

6. University of California, Berkeley: UC Berkeley, one of the best public universities in the nation, has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of UC Berkeley courses, both current and archived, are now available as podcasts and webcasts.

7. Utah State University: Utah State University also provides access to free online courses. Study options include everything from anthropology to physics and theatre arts.

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania: This is one of the largest collection of free, on-demand entrepreneurial training resources available in the United States and is part of our "Success Network".  We have Online Learning programs from the SBA, IRS, Small Biz U, Virtual Advisor and custom programs from the Pennsylvania SBDC Network.

9. University of California, Irvine: OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials, often including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.

10. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses.

11. Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.


AUSTRALIA

12. University of Southern Queensland: The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world.


VIETNAM

13. Fulbright Economics Teaching Program: It is a resource for people working or studying in policy-related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculum development. Instructors are encouraged to adopt FETP’s curricular materials for use in their own courses. Students may use FETP’s materials to guide independent study. 


JAPAN

14. Japan OCW Consortium: OCW is an open and a free publication of formal course materials of universities on the Internet.


FRANCE

15. ParisTech Graduate School: It offers on one hand access to Open Course Ware and PhD Thesis and on the other hand the homogeneous institutional display of all the Credits, Training programs and Books written by faculty members.


SPAIN

16. UniversiaNET: The collaboration between MIT Universia and reflects a shared vision between the two: that of promoting free access to knowledge through Internet. Henceforth, students, self-learners and teachers of Spanish and Portuguese speakers will have access to these valuable materials translated into their languages.


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