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 The best FREE online education resources that you should know about

We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here).
In the process of doing so, we came into contact with all of the major, most important and professional FREE online education sites on the internet. This article will present you with ten of the best of these.
There is a distinction between, on the one hand, sites that are driven by a concept or theme, and that have some form of evaluation and feedback, and sites that are simply video archives for lectures and events. This list will contain both, but the former were emphasized and given priority.

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1. Khan Academy: online education for the masses – that works

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Concept The brainchild of an MIT and Harvard educated Bangladeshi-American; the non-profit Khan Academy was started in 2007 with the mission of providing “a high quality education to anyone; anywhere”; and has delivered more than 160 million lessons since.
Course format Video lectures; progress tracking; automated exercises; and peer-to-peer tutoring based on data collected by the system.
Topics Five main areas: Math; Science; Finance and Economics; Humanities; Test Prep and  TED-like talks and interviews; spanning  more than 3200 creative-commons licensed videos.
Cost Free
Why we chose it Because Khan Academy is able to reconcile its massive; global ambition with a system that apparently works and keeps learners coming back for more..
 

2. Udacity: technology courses on the cutting edge

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Concept With the stated aim of ‘democratizing education’; Udacity; a for profit organization; is founded by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and has had enrollments in some of its classes in the tens (and occasionally hundreds) of thousands.
Course format Video lectures; quizzes; and follow-up homework. “Learn by doing”
Topics Computer science; software design and algorithms; physics; statistics; and the like.
Cost Free
Why we chose it Because Udacity courses are in the cutting edge of their field; these are not you typical; run of the mill computer science classes.
 

3. Coursera: free courses from some the best colleges in the world

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Concept Offers courses from top universities; for free. It’s partners at the time of this writing includes Princeton; Stanford; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania; and UC Berkeley. Like Udacity; Coursera was created by Stanford professors as a for profit institution.
Course format Short video lectures with periodic weekly assignments. A peer review system is also used in some instances.
Topics A wide range that runs the gamut from the Humanities; Medicine; Biology; Social Sciences; Mathematics; Business; Computer Science; and many others
Why we chose it Because Coursera delivers high-quality courses from some of the best universities in the world; for free. And because it isn’t just an archive of videos; but employs a methodology for evaluation and feedback.
 

4. Udemy: connects some of the best teachers with a worldwide audience

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Concept Launched in 2010; Udemy is a platform that allows instructors to create and publish online courses and reach their target audience without worrying about the technology that is needed to do so. Udemy provides both free and for-pay courses; and includes courses from instructors from the best colleges in the country.
Course format Provides educational materials including videos; presentations; documents; and audio files. Online discussion boards enable students to connect with instructors.
Topics A wide range of topics; including business and entrepreneurship; academics; the arts; health and fitness; language; music; and technology.
Cost The majority are free courses but there are paid courses as well. The cost for the latter ranges from $5 to $250 USD.
Why we chose it Because of it’s unique concept as a marketplace that connects instructors that want to teach with their prospective audience; in the process engaging students with some of the best professors in the world (also see the related website The Faculty Project).
 

5. The Open Courseware Consortium: the web’s biggest source of freely available college level educational materials

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Concept Launched OpenCourseware consortium brings freely available college level educational materials  from almost every college that offers them the world over; into a single place. These are freely available for use and adaptation for anyone who wants to learn or teach; mostly under a creative commons license.Materials are available from universities in 45+ countries (see map above). In the US they include such universities as MIT; Notre Dame; Michigan State; and Tufts; just to name a few.
Course format The site offers downloadable materials organized as courses. These contain any or all of the following: course planning materials; syllabi; lecture notes; handouts; video lectures; presentations; audio files; and tests and evaluation tools.
Topics Every conceivable topic; in most world languages.
Cost Free
Why we chose it Because this is the single; biggest and most important resource on the internet when it comes to open courseware.
 

6. iTunes U: the world’s biggest distributor of online courses (free and paid)

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Concept iTunes U can refer to the free iOS app of the same name; but it can also refer to a section in iTunes that contains mostly free videos; lectures; podcasts and other educational materials published by a wide range of universities; instructors and learning institutions. iTunes U lets anyone easily publish their course on iTunes for free or for pay.
Course format Video lectures and podcasts; as well as ebooks; documents and other materials packaged neatly as courses.
Topics Every topic you could think of from every conceivable college and university in the US and worldwide.
Cost Mostly free. Some courses are for pay.
Why we chose it iTunes U is a remarkable achievement. Apple; via iTunes and it’s iOS devices; has somehow succeeded in making itself the de-facto distribution network for online courses and materials for what seems to be every college in the US and beyond. Just download iTunes (free); go to the iTunes U section; and browse freely. To download the iTunes app go here.
 

7. OpenStax: provides open source, professional-quality college textbooks

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Concept OpenStax is a Rice University affiliated nonprofit organization that aims to provide completely free; professional-quality open source textbooks on most subjects that are standardized and peer reviewed.
Course format Downloadable open source ebooks (in Web/PDF/EPUB formats) that can be customized by the instructor to fit their needs.
Topics At the time of this writing: College Physics; Introduction to Sociology; Biology; Concepts of Biology; Anatomy and Physiology. Others may have been added since.
Cost Free to download. Printed versions will be provided at cost of printing only.
Why we chose it Because high quality; customizable open source textbooks can have a huge potential impact on democratizing higher education; and because textbooks are frequently one of the highest expenses that a student has to incur..
 

8. Alison: certification-focused online learning

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Concept Courses geared towards certifiable standard of proficiency. Once you complete the requirements for a certificate you will get credit for it and can print a certificate or buy a hard copy; however; Alison certification is not accredited.
Course format PowerPoint presentations; videos; and audio content. Courses have a number of modules; followed by a graded assessment.
Topics A wide range of topics that tend to be certifiable; such as IT (a lot of Microsoft courses); Project Management; Business Management and the like; but they also include English Language Skills to Personal Development courses.
Cost Alison’s courses are free to take; however; on completion you will have the option to pay ($20-$60) to get a hard copy your certificate; alternately; you could just print one.
Why we chose it Alison’s certification oriented courses are unique among online education sites; and fill a very practical niche.
 

9. The Open Learning Initiative: high quality courses with a sophisticated teaching methodology

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Concept To provide high quality open courses combined with continuous feedback to anyone who wants to learn. The Open Learning Initiative is a project of Carnegie Mellon University.
Course format Structured courses that include all sorts of media (readings; video lectures; and frequent exercises and assessments) designed to collect real time data on the student and his/her progress; which in turn is used for better course design.
Topics A hodgepodge that includes the sciences; IT/computers; math; statistics; languages and economics.
Cost Free
Why we chose it because of the way courses are designed. These are not merely video playlists; but structured; interactive courses of very high quality.

10. Webcast.Berkeley: high quality video lectures on a wide range of subjects

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Concept Webcast.Berkeley is an archive of video lectures and other media organized as courses. Started in 1995; it now contains hundreds of courses are offered completely free
Course format Courses are spread over a number of video lectures that are provided in sequence; although there is no interactivity or a system for evaluation.
Topics Undergraduate courses and events (i.e.talks and seminars and the like) Topics range across very conceivable subject from art to statistics to philosophy.
Cost Free. Creative Commons licensed; and can be used by instructors and others for their own teaching purposes.
Why we chose it Because the content and courses are of the highest standards; coming from one of the best Universities in the world. Moreover; unlike many other video archive based e-courses that typically consist of a single video; Webcast Berkeley strings together multiple videos in a sequence that make up a course.
  
6 Great Websites That Offer Free College Courses

Over the past year I have gotten very interested in growing my knowledge in a variety of areas. I found some amazing MOOC websites (Massive Open Online Courses) that offer college/university level courses for free or for a minimal fee. Many of them do not have age requirements or prerequesites and offer certificates of completion. I've taken courses from most of them and have several certificates. Courses I have taken include: Communication Science, Health & Nutrition, Intro to Finance, Intro to Business, Art History, Leadership, Online Journalism, E-Commerce and a Cell Phone Photography course. I spent a long time researching trying to find the best and I came up with six for TDYEI
1. COURSERA is one of my favorites! They offer university courses from all over the world. I've taken several courses from here and all of them were from major universities. The cool thing about these courses are you get to interact with thousands of people from all over the globe through discussion boards and peer assessments.
2. The CANVAS NETWORK is another favorite. I have taken several from here as well and have really enjoyed them. There is lots of interaction with peers via discussion boards. Here where I took the cell phone photography course and fell in love with photography, I will be sharing that experience in a future post. Currently I am taking an "Essentials of Interior Design" course from Canvas.
3. ALISON, another good one, has certified courses from top publishers from around the world. They have tons of courses in areas such as business, finance, personal development, health, foreign language, art, job skills, digital literacy & IT as well as others, many with certificates. I recently enrolled in a digital photography course from Harvard's Extension School through Alison and am excited to get started!
4. OPEN2STUDY is a website with courses from universities in Australia. Lots of categories and a huge selection. I have taken several from here as well.
5. EDX has hundreds of courses from major universities such as MIT, Harvard and Berkley, to name a few. Higher learning at it's finest here!
6. Last but not least is UDEMY. This is a great source, with over 22,000+ courses in almost any subject you can think of. Many are free and many have fees involved. I have taken lots of courses from Udemy and plan to take many more!
Hopefully I have shared some resources with you that may be of use to you or someone you may know. If you have any other resources to add to the list, please let me know.
See ya for now!

Take FREE online courses from the TOP 40 colleges in the US

Jun 4, 2012 By 4 Comments
Online education is ubiquitous, it seems, and has a lot to recommend it, such as the convenience of learning when and where you want, and the fact that there are so many free courses out there.
However, many online schools seem like they suddenly came out of nowhere, as if created yesterday by a committee of MBA types. The good news is that most brick and mortar schools now have online programs, including most of the best universities in America, and many offer online courses that are 100% free to take.
This post will list the top 40 US universities and present you with the free-for-all online education resources that each college (and/or members of it’s faculty) has on offer. This article aims to be the most comprehensive list of online education resources for the top colleges in America.
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Note: scroll down for the list of 40 universities, and for an explanation of types of free online resources included in this article.

And the best colleges (in terms of free online education resources) are …

This is my own ranking of colleges based on the extent and quality of free online education resources they offer (as opposed to the big list underneath, which lists all of the top 40 schools as per the US News & World report college rankings).
  1. Stanford: unquestionably, the most active and the most involved in providing quality free online education resources. Stanford professors, moreover, seem to be everywhere, active in some of the best non-university affiliated free online education sites on the internet.
  2. MIT: not so much second best as tied with Stanford, really. But if you had to rank them, MIT is a close second.
  3. UC Berkeley: the free online education resources it offers are impressive. (All UC branches mentioned in this article had excellent resources).
  4. Yale: a wealth of resources, including it’s OpenYale initiative.
  5. Harvard: excellent resources in general.
Honorable mentions: Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, Rice, and Princeton.
Note on credits and degrees. although you can get a world class education for free if you (a) are willing, and (b) invest the time and energy; free online learning is different from being accredited or getting a degree. For that, you will have to go through an admissions process and (more importantly) pay tuition and fees in each and every case.
We found no free courses that can be taken for credit. None, sorry.
Note on rankings:
  • The rankings below are taken from the 2012 “US News and World Report College Rankings” of the best colleges in America.
  • The brief college descriptions below have been ‘influenced’ somewhat by the USN&WR descriptions, although we also looked into Wikipedia and other sources on the web.
  • Why top 40? It had a nice ring to it, like the music charts ��

There are SEVEN kinds of online education resources mentioned in this post

  1. Free online courses offered internallyon the university website, or by sites that are created by or affiliated with the university.
  2. Free online courses offered on external sites,that may have some relationship with the university or it’s professors and/or faculty.
  3. OpenCourseWare resources: which denotes the sharing of “free, open, high quality education materials organized as courses, including lecture notes, assignments, exams, multimedia content such as videos, etc.”
  4. Internal university podcasts, feeds, videos, and live streaming events.
  5. External sites featuring videos, feeds, etc. from professors or courses affiliated with the university.
  6. The university channel on YouTube
  7. Courses offered on iTunesU (a free iTunes and iOS app which can distribute courses through multiple mediums; audio, video, and text).
Note: we list resources that are FREE TO THE PUBLIC. We do not list any resources, including courses and seminars, that are free for registered students or faculty.

The list of colleges and universities is as follows:

1. Harvard University (*) 21. UC Berkeley University
2. Princeton University (*) 22. Georgetown University
3. Yale University (*) 23. Carnegie Mellon University
4. Columbia University (*) 24. University of Southern California
5. California Institute Of Technology 25. UCLA University of California; Los Angeles
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26. University of Virginia
7. Stanford University 27. Wake Forest University
8. The University Of Chicago 28. University of Michigan
9. University Of Pennsylvania (*) 29. Tufts University
10. Duke University 30. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11. Dartmouth University (*) 31. Boston College
12. Northwestern University 32. Brandeis University
13. Johns Hopkins University 33. College of William & Mary
14. Washington University IN St.Louis 34. New York University
15. Brown University (*) 35. University of Rochester
16. Cornell University (*) 36. Georgia Institute of Technology
17. Rice University 37. University of California San Diego
18. Vanderbilt University 38. Case Western Reserve University
19. University Of North Dame 39. Lehigh University
20. Emory University 40. University of California at Davis

(*) Denotes so-called  Ivy-league Universities.

Harvard University logo1. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The oldest institute of higher learning in America, and probably the best in the world. In the heart of Cambridge, MA.
  • Free Online Courses: Harvard offers these through the Harvard ‘Extension School’s ‘open learning initiative’. Not for credit.
  • Academic Earth / Harvard: contains a slew of Harvard courses. Academic Earth offers “online courses from the world’s top scholars”.
  • edXOnlineis a joint venture between Harvard and MIT, offering many Harvard and MIT courses online for free.
  • Harvard at Udemy: a few courses by Harvard professors
  • Harvard on the Virtual Professors site: a site featuring videos of leading professors (taken from Harvard’s YouTube channel).
  • FreeVideoLectures: Harvard Online Courses
  • Harvard’s YouTube Channel: featuring Harvard-related videos, playlists, and lectures, as well as entire courses.
  • Harvard on iTunesU: quite the selection of courses available here, for free, for both Harvard and Harvard Extension school.

Princeton University logo2. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

The first to institute a ‘no loans’ policy, offering grants instead to students who cannot afford tuition.
Note: for a list of the 70+ colleges with no loans policies, see this article (scroll down).

Yale Universitylogo3. Yale University, New Haven, CT

Combines small college life with the resources and reputation of a world class research institution.
  • Open Yale: is a rather impressive website. It provides “free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University”.
  • Academic Earth / Yale: offers Yale online courses for free.
  • Yale at Udemy:  a few courses by Yale professor on Udemy, a site which, among other things, lets users design their own online courses.
  • Virtual Professors’ Yale Channel: featuring videos of talks and lectures by leading Yale professors (taken from Yale’s YouTube channel).
  • The faculty project: some Yale professors offer free courses here; unfortunately, there is not a specific link or page that filters them out.
  • FreeVideoLectures: Yale videos
  • Yale at Futurity: research news.
  • Yale’s YouTube Channel
  • Yale on iTunesU: a good selection of courses and lectures, including Open Yale courses.

columbia logo4. Columbia University, New York, NY

Columbia University is the fifth oldest institution of higher learning in the US, and the oldest in New York. Columbia administers the Pulitzer prize and, according to Wikipedia, is “affiliated with more Nobel prize laureates” than any other college.
  • Columbia Video Network’s (CVN) Free course previews: from Columbia’s Graduate Engineering Distance Learning program.
  • Academic Earth / Columbia: slim pickings. One one (Pol-Sci) course offered at the time of this writing. Free to take by anyone, no credit.
  • Columbia at Udemy: free courses and lectures by Columbia professors.
  • Columbia at Fathom: a handful of online courses. Note that the Fathom site is no longer being developed and no new content added.
  • University events video gallery: an archive of free talks and events held at Columbia
  • YouTube Channel: featuring commencement speaker for 2012 for Barnard College, Columbia’s sister school — Barack Obama!
  • Columbia on iTunesU: contains public and private sections. The public, free-for-all section is not as rich as, say, most of the schools mentioned in this article.

California Institute Of Technology logo5. California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Actively involved in research projects with NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and others, while simultaneously keeping the student-to-faculty ratio an impressive 3:1.
  • Telecourse:featuring a real Caltech course broadcast live, free to take (but there are academic prerequisites). At the time of this writing the course is “Introductory Machine Learning”, although that may have changed to something else at the time you read this. Not for credit.
  • Caltech at Futurity: research news.
  • YouTube Channel: includes the lectures from the free course above, as well as various videos and lectures, including a TEDxCaltechplaylist.
  • Caltech on iTunes: free lectures and podcasts.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology University logo6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

MIT may be the best college for math, science, and engineering education, but it also offers architecture, humanities, management, and social science programs.
  • MITx: an online learning initiative, offering a “portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world”.
  • edXOnlineis a joint venture between Harvard and MIT, offering many Harvard and MIT courses online for free.
  • Academic Earth / MIT: offering an impressive range of courses. Free to take by anyone, no credit.
  • MIT OpenCourseWare provides education materials for courses (lecture notes, assignments, exams, multimedia content, etc.), but not structured courses to take. Also check out the MIT page on the OpenCourseWare site.
  • Alison: interactive learning website, featuring courses published by MIT as well as courses published by MIT Labs(not many, but noteworthy).
  • MIT at Udemy: a good number of courses and lectures by MIT professors.
  • MIT channel on the Virtual Professors site: featuring videos of leading MIT professors doing what they do best (taken from MIT’s YouTube channel).
  • MIT Video site: why MIT has it’s own video site alongside it’s YouTube channel is a mystery, but my guess is that it probably this 10,000+ video archive pre-dated YouTube by a couple of decades ��
  • FreeVideoLectures: MIT videos
  • YouTube Channel: everything from MIT news to full course lectures.
  • MIT on iTunes U: podcasts, courses, etc., piped straight to your ears via stylish headphones. Add a pair of shades and a cool T-shirt, and people may not even know you’re a geek

Stanford University logo7. Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Stanford stresses the combination of teaching, learning, and research, and has a strong connection with Silicon Valley and California’s tech industry.

University of Chicago8. The University Of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Although the University of Chicago is a leading center of scientific research, it is better known for advances in humanities, such as sociology, political science, and economics.
Not much in the way of online education resources, compared to some of the others.

Penn logo9. University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Founded by Benjamin Franklin, ‘Penn’ is a private institution in Philadelphia that offers Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Engineering, Applied Sciences degrees, and Business degrees through the Wharton School of Business.

DukeUniversity10. Duke University, Durham, NC

A private research university founded by Quakers, Duke, in Durham, NC, has some of the best undergraduate and graduate programs in the US. In 2011 it was ranked as being one of he top 20 universities in the world by the QS World University Rankings.
  • YouTube Channel: a rather modest selection of videos
  • The faculty project: some Duke professors offer free courses here; unfortunately, there is not a specific link or page that filters them out.
  • Duke at Futurity: research news.
  • Duke on iTunes U: not a lot of material, at least in the free public section, but the podcasts by Dan Ariely are very cool  (yes we actually listened to some of them).

Dartmouth logo11. Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH

The smallest school in the Ivy League, Dartmouth College is a private institution in Hanover, N.H. that comprises Liberal Arts, Medicine,  Engineering, and Business colleges, and offers 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences.
  • Dartmouth at Academic Earth: while Dartmouth is listed at the Academic Earth website, there was not a single course available when we wrote this. Try the link, though; it may have changed since.
  • YouTube Channel
  • The faculty project: some Dartmouth professors offer free courses here; unfortunately, there is not a specific link or page that filters them out.
  • Podcasts and media: the Tuck Business School offers a Media Library that contains videos and audio broadcasts which they call RadioTuck (also get it on iTunes here)

nwlogo12. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

A private school in Evanston, Ill., that offers undergraduates more than 70 majors, with the option to design their own degree program.

Johns Hopkins University logo13. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

A private research university in Baltimore, Md. that offers a wide array of academic programs in the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering. The National Science Foundation ranked it #1 in science, medical and engineering R&D spending for 31 consecutive weeks (from Wikipedia).

Washington University IN St.Louis logo14. Washington University in St.Louis, St. Louis, MO

Named after George Washington, WUSTL is a private research university that offers programs in architecture, art, arts and sciences, business, engineering and law. According to Wikipedia, “more than 90% of incoming freshmen were ranked in the top 10% of their high school classes”.

Brown University logo15. Brown University, Providence, RI

A private university in Providence, R.I., with the distinction having been the first American institution of higher learning to accept students regardless of religious affiliation, Brown is an Ivy League college that offers undergraduates more than 70 concentration programs to choose from, and holds them responsible for designing their own academic study plan.
Not much in the way of FREE online resources, unfortunately.

Cornell University logo16. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

A private research university in Ithaca, N.Y., which was co-educational and non-sectarian since its founding in 1865, and is consistently ranked among the world’s 20 best universities across many different rankings.

Rice University logo17. Rice University, Houston, TX

A private research university located in Houston, TX. Rice adopts a “need-blind” admissions policy whereby it will meet “the full demonstrated need of any accepted student who requires help paying tuition”. (from Wikipedia, USN&WR).

Vanderbilt University logo18. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

A private research university established in 1873. Vanderbilt University consists of four undergraduate and six graduate and professional schools, and it’s admission policy is extremely selective.

University Of North Dame logo19. University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

A private, independent, Catholic research university in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame is not just competitive in the football field, it is also one of the best universities in America.

Emory Logo20. Emory University, Atlanta, GA

A private research university that operates in metropolitan Atlanta as Emory college and at a smaller campus 40 miles away as Oxford College. It offers about 70 majors in the arts, sciences, nursing, and business administration.

UC Berkeley University logo21. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

A public research university that overlooks the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, Calif. UC Berkeley has a long list of notable alumni, faculty, and staffs, and is one of the best institutions of higher learning in the world.

georgetown-university-logo22. Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Located in one of the most vibrant areas in the nation’s capital, Georgetown University is a private research university that is the oldest Catholic university in the country.

Carnegie Mellon University logo23. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

A private research university in Pittsburgh, PA. It specializes in academic areas including engineering, business, computer science, and fine arts, and according to Wikipedia “consistently ranks among the top 25 universities in the United States”.

University of Southern California logo24. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

California’s oldest private university, USC is a not-for-profit research university based in Los Angeles.

UCLA University of California, Los Angeles University logo25. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

The University of California—Los Angeles is a public research university that, next to UC Berkeley above, is one of the ‘flagship’ institutions of the University of California system. It offers over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.

University of Virginia logo26. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

A public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia and established by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. “UVA is the only university in the United States to be designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO”, according to Wikipedia.

Wake Forest University logo27. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

A private, coeducational university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university was originally located in Wake Forest, NC, where it got it’s name, but it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.

University of Michigan logo28. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

A public research university. The Ann Arbor branch is considered the ‘flagship’, but there are other branches in Flint and Dearborn. UM admissions are considered most selective.

tufts_logo29. Tufts University, Medford, MA

“Tufts University is a private institution that was founded in 1852. The school has 69.1 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students, and the student-faculty ratio at Tufts University is 9:1”. Source: USN&WR.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill logo30. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

One of the oldest public universities in the US and one of the 16 public state Universities in that state. Its admissions policy is considered very selective.

Boston College logo31. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

A private Jesuit research university with just over 9000 students (most of whom are graduate students), and a an acceptance rate of just over 30% (which is quite selective).
  • Boston College Front Row: freely available lectures (audio or video) in almost 30 different subjects. Almost 1000 programs at the time of this writing, sorted chronologically.
  • C21 Online: online learning for “spiritual enrichment and faith renewal”, offers free courses in such topics and the birth and death of Jesus, etc.
  • Boston College YouTube Channel
  • Boston College on iTunes U: link will open in iTunes; you will need to have iTunes installed.

Brandeis University logo32. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

A private research university founded in 1948, with a liberal arts focus, a student to faculty ratio of 9:1, and a selective admissions policy.
Not too much in the way of free online education resources though.

College of William & Mary logo33. College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

A public research university founded in 1693. The school has a the student-faculty ratio of 12:1 and a selective admissions policy.
Not too much in the way of free online education resources though.
  • YouTube Channel
  • College of William & Mary does not seem to have an iTunes U presence, although we did find this page which claims differently (we checked iTunes itself and found no listing). Coming soon, perhaps?.

New York University logo34. New York University, New York, NY

A private research university located in the the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, with a selective admissions ratio of around 38%

University of Rochester logo35. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

A a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, with about 10000 students split approximately evenly between undergraduates and graduate students.

Georgia Institute of Technology logo36. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

A public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1865 during the reconstruction period in the wake of the America civil war, it has grown to become one of the best institutes of higher learning in the United States.

University of California San Diego37. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

A public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. UC San Diego has very a selective admissions policy, with an acceptance rate of around 36%.

Case Western Reserve University logo38. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

A private research university in Cleveland, Ohio that has a student to faculty ratio of 9:1 and almost two thirds of classes having less than 20 students.

Lehigh University logo39. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

A private university in Bethlehem, PA, with admissions that are considered very selective. Lehigh was ranked as 12th in the nation in terms of “return on investment” by the Wall St. Journal.

University of California Davis logo40. University of California Davis, Davis, CA

A public teaching and research university, with the largest campus of the University of California system and very high research activity.

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