Here are 850+ Ivy League Courses You Can Take Right Now for Free

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By Dhawal Shah

The 8 Ivy League schools - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania - are among the most prestigious universities in the world. In 2025, all 8 Ivy League schools are ranked in the top-20 of the U.S. News & World Report national university ranking. While these institutions are highly selective and difficult to get into, they offer many of their courses online for free.

Using Class Central's database, I've compiled these courses for you. In total, Ivy League schools currently offer over 850 courses that have attracted 60 million enrollments and 1.7 million bookmarks. Looking at the data:

The Class Central database has over 250,000 online courses.

For those interested in staying updated on new Ivy League course offerings, you can "Follow" our dedicated collection on Class Central.

Note that figuring out how to audit a course for free on platforms such as Coursera can be a bit confusing. So my colleague Pat and I have written a dedicated guide: How to Sign up for Coursera Courses for Free.

In this guide, Harvard's CS50 courses clearly stands out - the first CS50 course has attracted over 6 million learners on edX alone. For that reason, we created a dedicated guide: Harvard CS50 Guide: How to Pick the Right Course (with Free Certificate) where my colleague Manoel reviews the complete lineup of 14 courses, including 10 that offer free certificates of completion.

Also, recently we published a free developer certificates article with thousand of courses, including several from freeCodeCamp, Google, Microsoft, and Harvard.


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If you don’t find what you need here, browse Class Central’s catalog of over 250K courses or visit our thematic collections:

Without further ado, here are all the free online courses offered by Ivy League institutions.

Computer Science (59 courses)

Data Science (27 courses)

Programming (17 courses)

Business (126 courses)

Personal Development (25 courses)

Art & Design (26 courses)

Education & Teaching (36 courses)

Engineering (11 courses)

Health & Medicine (156 courses)

Humanities (127 courses)

Mathematics (20 courses)

Science (103 courses)

Social Sciences (123 courses)

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