38 free Harvard courses you can take online right now

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If you want to learn in-demand career skills from one of the best schools in the world, or just want to know what sitting in a Harvard class is like, you can do it for free.

edX was founded by Harvard and MIT. When classes are available online for free or at affordable prices, obstacles like steep tuition are no longer a problem.

The platform's 2,500+ online courses are free to audit and many of the courses are from the world's top universities. More than 100 of the courses on edX are from Harvard.

You can either audit these classes for free or pay for features like graded homework and certificates of completion that you can add to your resume or profile.

The 38 best free online Harvard courses:

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