[2024] 200+ edX Courses That Are Completely Free

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With a catalog of more than 4000 courses, edX should have something for every online learner, no matter the subject they’re interested in. However, free course access on edX is typically limited: most often, you’ll only have access to part of the course content and only for a limited time.

Fortunately, this limitation doesn’t apply to all courses. At Class Central, we’ve scoured the edX catalog to identify courses that still offer free unlimited access, and we’ve put them in a handy list that we’ll continue to update.

If you enjoy this list, you may also want to have a look at our list of 1800+ Coursera Courses Still Completely Free.

Is edX free?

There once was a time when MOOCs (or massive open online courses) were free, including those offered on edX. But in their quest for a sustainable business model, one after the other, online course platforms started introducing paywalls. We reported on this as it happened.

Nowadays, if you want unrestricted access to an edX course, you’ll typically have to pay. More specifically, most edX courses offer the following access modalities:

  • Paid full access: In this modality, you’ll have access to all course material and graded assignments, and upon completion of the course, you’ll earn a verified certificate of completion.
  • Free audit: In this modality, you’ll have temporary access to the course material (usually, a month), but you won’t have access to graded assignments, and you won’t earn a certificate upon completion.

For example, the popular edX online course Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science in our Best Courses Guide (BCG) to the best data science courses offers these two modalities, as you can see below:

The most common access modalities on edX: Paid full access and free audit.

Fully-Free edX Courses

However, while most edX courses default to the two modalities above, fortunately for us, some edX courses still offer free access to all learning materials, including graded assignments.

The only thing these courses don’t include is a certificate (though, for some CS courses, that’s not entirely true). But in terms of content, you’ll have access to the full learning experience.

When you try to enroll into one of these courses, you’ll either immediately have access to the full course, or you’ll be given a choice between paid certificate and free full content access, as shown in the image below.

Note that this is different from the choice shown in the image above. Here the free option isn’t time-limited nor restricted to ungraded assignments. Instead, you’ll have access to all the learning materials, including the assignments. So, unless you want the paid certificate, pick the option on the right.

Less common edX modalities: Paid certificate vs free full content access

The difficult thing is finding these fully-free online courses buried among the rest in edX’s catalog. The platform doesn’t offer a handy filter to easily identify them. So instead, we searched the provider’s catalog programmatically and found these fully-free courses for you.

Subjects

We discovered that currently, more than 200 courses on edX are still completely free in terms of learning content. They cover a wide variety of subjects. For your convenience, we’ve broken the list down by subject. Click on a subject to jump to the corresponding courses.

Stats

  • Enrollments range from 22 to 6,069,194
  • 4 courses have over 1 million enrollments
  • Together, they account for 14,706,669 enrollments, with an average of 64,787 enrollments
  • Together, they account for 852 reviews at Class Central, with an average of 11 reviews
  • Average Rating: 4.63/5
  • 121 courses are beginner level, 71 intermediate, and 39 advanced
  • 213 are in English, 4 German, 3 Chinese, 3 French, 2 Spanish, 2 Japanese, and 1 each in Arabic, Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian.

More Courses

If you don’t find what you need here and would like to explore more learning opportunities that include a free certificate, Class Central’s got you covered. Check our articles:

You can find all the Class Central free certificate articles here.


Humanities (16)

Computer Science (9)

Social Sciences (38)

Programming (11)

Health & Medicine (38)

Engineering (7)

Mathematics (5)

Science (30)

Education & Teaching (27)

Business (25)

Personal Development (7)

Information Security (InfoSec) (6)

Art & Design (8)

Test Prep (1)

Data Science (3)

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