When it comes to talking about universities, there is no one with greater fame and prestige than Harvard. Founded in 1636 (140 years before the United States itself), the Massachusetts institution is considered the best university in the world. Studying (let alone graduating) there is the dream of millions of university students around the world who aspire to excellence.

However, many of them have to give up that dream for different reasons.. One of the most frequent, the economic one: according to El Comercio, being a Harvard student costs more than 82,000 dollars.

But what if they told you that you can study for free at Harvard? And it is that the famous university offers a series of course and career programs that can be done online and for free and only assuming the costs of issuance and the title, according to El Español

Harvard offers more than 130 free training

Harvard University itself has a course search engine on its website, where you can filter by price, duration, field of study or modality, among others.. If you filter by free price, you can see that the University offers different free courses.

Up to 9 pages of courses that are several weeks long and that only require the payment of the verification certificate at the end of the course (and that costs around 150 dollars in most cases).

What free courses does Harvard have?

The free courses, which can be found on the official Harvard website, are varied: most are dedicated to programming and new technologies, such as 'Introduction to game development', 'Introduction to computing', or 'Introduction to Intelligence Artificial with Python'.

There are also different formations of the Humanities branch, such as 'The first empires of China and the emergence of Buddhism', 'Contemporary China: the People's Republic, Taiwan and Hong Kong' or 'Religion, conflict and peace'. Other courses offer global visions, such as 'Justice' or 'EE public policy. USA: social, economic and foreign policies'.

Social Sciences also have a place in these study programs, with training such as 'Big Data Solutions for social and economic disparities'; as well as the branch of Medicine, with courses such as 'The opioid crisis in the United States' or 'MalariaX: defeating malaria from the genes to the world'.

Art, Business, Education or Data Science or even Law training: up to 133 free Harvard programs that can be consulted at this link.

How to Enroll in Free Harvard Courses

To enroll in the free Harvard courses, you have to search for the desired course on the online training website of the university center: Harvard edX. Once there, you simply have to select the course (from which we can consult information about the program, the cost of the certificate and other aspects) and open an account or log in on the web to enroll in one of the different dates offered at based on the duration of the course.

You can sign up for free courses and be a graduate of Harvard University through this link.