The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia Universities, and the University of Pennsylvania.
All eight schools place in the top fifteen of the U.S. News and World Report national university rankings.
These Ivy League schools are also highly selective and extremely hard to get into. But the good news is that all these universities now offer free online courses across multiple online course platforms. These courses are know as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.
So far, they’ve created around 500 courses, of which around 380 are still active. Class Central has made a collection of all these, which you can explore below. I’ve split these courses into the following categories:
- Computer Science
- Programming
- Business & Management
- Humanities
- Art & Design
- Science
- Health & Medicine
- Mathematics
- Education & Teaching
- and Engineering
I’ve also assembled these courses on Class Central’s collection page for Ivy League MOOCs. This collection gets updated automatically as new courses are added. You can subscribe to receive updates by clicking the blue “follow” button there.
Note that some of the Coursera courses are a bit harder to access, so I wrote this guide to show you how.
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Computer Science (31)
Programming (7)
Business (62)
Humanities (69)
- Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(131)
- Moralities of Everyday Life from Yale University ★★★★★(31)
- Greek and Roman Mythology from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(11)
- Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(9)
- China (Part 1): Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists from Harvard University ★★★★★(7)
- Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(7)
- China (Part 6): The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty from Harvard University ★★★★★(6)
- China (Part 2): The Creation and End of Centralized Empire from Harvard University ★★★★★(6)
- China (Part 4): Literati China: Examinations and Neo-Confucianism from Harvard University ★★★★★(6)
- Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity from Harvard University ★★★★★(5)
- China (Part 8): Creating Modern China: The Birth of a Nation from Harvard University ★★★★★(5)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction — 1850–1861: A House Divided from Columbia University ★★★★★(5)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction — 1865–1890: The Unfinished Revolution from Columbia University ★★★★★(5)
- China (Part 3): Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture from Harvard University ★★★★★(4)
- China (Part 10): Greater China Today: The People’s Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from Harvard University ★★★★★(4)
- China (Part 5): From a Global Empire under the Mongols to a Global Economy under the Ming Dynasty from Harvard University ★★★★★(4)
- China (Part 7): Invasions, Rebellions and the Fall of Imperial China from Harvard University ★★★★★(4)
- China (Part 9): China and Communism from Harvard University ★★★★★(4)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction — 1861–1865: A New Birth of Freedom from Columbia University ★★★★★(4)
- Religious Literacy: Traditions and Scriptures from Harvard University ★★★★☆(3)
- American Capitalism: A History from Cornell University ★★★★★(3)
- The Book: The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages from Harvard University ★★★☆☆(2)
- The Ancient Greek Hero from Harvard University ★★★☆☆(2)
- Christianity Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University ★★★★☆(2)
- Global History Lab from Princeton University ★★★★☆(2)
- Effective Altruism from Princeton University ★★★★★(2)
- The Ethics of Eating from Cornell University ★★★★★(2)
- Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University ★★★☆☆(1)
- The Book: Books in the Medieval Liturgy from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- Buddhism Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1)
- Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life from Yale University ★★★★☆(1)
- Power and Responsibility: Doing Philosophy with Superheroes from Harvard University
- Islam Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University
- Religion, Conflict and Peace from Harvard University
- Judaism Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University
- Poetry in America: The Civil War and Its Aftermath from Harvard University
- Hinduism Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University
- Poetry in America: Modernism from Harvard University
- China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture from Harvard University
- Poetry in America: Whitman from Harvard University
- The Book: Book Sleuthing: What 19th-Century Books Can Tell Us About the Rise of the Reading Public? from Harvard University
- Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University
- Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories from Harvard University
- Hamlet’s Ghost from Harvard University
- Shylock’s Bond from Harvard University
- Othello’s Story from Harvard University
- Sikhism Through Its Scriptures from Harvard University
- PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude from Harvard University
- Modern Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University
- English for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania
- The Tabernacle in Word & Image: An Italian Jewish Manuscript Revealed from University of Pennsylvania
- Wonders of Ancient Egypt from University of Pennsylvania
- English for Journalism from University of Pennsylvania
- English for Career Development from University of Pennsylvania
- English for Business and Entrepreneurship from University of Pennsylvania
- Writing Case Studies: Science of Delivery from Princeton University
- HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism from Princeton University
- The Worldview of Thomas Berry: The Flourishing of the Earth Community from Yale University
- A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200–1650) from Yale University
- Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920–2016 from Columbia University
- Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700–1920 from Columbia University
- Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature from Brown University
- The Ethics of Memory from Brown University
- The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century from Dartmouth
- Libertarian Free Will: Neuroscientific and Philosophical Evidence from Dartmouth
- Question Reality! Science, philosophy, and the search for meaning from Dartmouth
- John Milton: Paradise Lost from Dartmouth
Social Sciences (66)
- Justice from Harvard University ★★★★★(62)
- Buddhism and Modern Psychology from Princeton University ★★★★☆(19)
- An Introduction to American Law from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(13)
- Moral Foundations of Politics from Yale University ★★★★☆(11)
- The Age of Sustainable Development from Columbia University ★★★★★(11)
- Paradoxes of War from Princeton University ★★★★☆(9)
- America’s Written Constitution from Yale University ★★★★☆(8)
- Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract from Harvard University ★★★★☆(7)
- Designing Cities from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(7)
- Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You from Harvard University ★★★★★(5)
- Microeconomics: The Power of Markets from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(5)
- Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(5)
- Introduction to Sociology from Princeton University ★★★★☆(4)
- American Government from Harvard University ★★★★☆(3)
- The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive from Harvard University ★★★★☆(3)
- The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript from Harvard University ★★★★★(3)
- Revolutionary Ideas: Utility, Justice, Equality, Freedom from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(3)
- America’s Unwritten Constitution from Yale University ★★★★★(3)
- The Book: Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script from Harvard University ★★★★★(2)
- JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change from Harvard University ★★★★★(2)
- Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics from Harvard University ★★★★☆(2)
- Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press from Harvard University ★★★☆☆(1)
- The Book: The History of the Book in the 17th and 18th Century Europe from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- The Book: Scrolls in the Age of the Book from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- The Book: Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450–1650) from Harvard University ★★★★★(1)
- Microeconomics: When Markets Fail from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1)
- The History of Medieval Medicine Through Jewish Manuscripts from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1)
- Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Part 2 from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★☆(1)
- Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Part 1 from University of Pennsylvania ★★★★★(1)
- A Law Student’s Toolkit from Yale University ★★★★☆(1)
- Networks, Crowds and Markets from Cornell University ★★☆☆☆(1)
- Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology from Cornell University ★★★☆☆(1)
- Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Interconnection from Cornell University ★★★☆☆(1)
- PredictionX: Diviner’s Guide from Harvard University
- CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life from Harvard University
- U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies from Harvard University
- Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media from Harvard University
- American Government: Constitutional Foundations from Harvard University
- U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy from Harvard University
- Child Protection: Children’s Rights in Theory and Practice from Harvard University
- Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science from University of Pennsylvania
- Revolutionary Ideas: Borders, Elections, Constitutions, Prisons from University of Pennsylvania
- Corruption from University of Pennsylvania
- Network Dynamics of Social Behavior from University of Pennsylvania
- Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods from University of Pennsylvania
- Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your Life for Well-being from University of Pennsylvania
- Creating an Effective Child Welfare System from University of Pennsylvania
- Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills from University of Pennsylvania
- English for Media Literacy from University of Pennsylvania
- Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions from University of Pennsylvania
- Social Norms, Social Change II from University of Pennsylvania
- Social Norms, Social Change I from University of Pennsylvania
- Top 10 Social Issues for the President’s First 100 Days from University of Pennsylvania
- Making Government Work in Hard Places from Princeton University
- Civil Liberties from Princeton University
- Global History of Capitalism from Princeton University
- American Contract Law I from Yale University
- The Science of Well-Being from Yale University
- Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing from Yale University
- American Contract Law II from Yale University
- Introduction to Psychology from Yale University
- Risk and Return and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital from Columbia University
- Freedom of Expression in the Age of Globalization from Columbia University
- Global Muckraking: Investigative Journalism and Global Media from Columbia University
- Economics of Money and Banking from Columbia University
- Structuring Business Agreements for Success from Cornell University
Art & Design (21)
Health & Medicine (27)
Data Science (21)
Education & Teaching (18)
Mathematics (13)
Science (26)
Engineering (17)
Personal Development (5)
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