February 27, 2026

20 Universities That Offer Free Audio & Video Courses with No Sign Up

If you’re looking for university courses on audio & video that you can learn from immediately without having to create an account, then we’ve created this list of over 20 of the top universities that offer courses you can access for free right now. Most of these courses don’t offer any sort of certificate, but are high-quality courses nonetheless that can be enjoyable to watch or listen to. We’ve been collecting these courses in our LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection for many years now, with over 1,000 courses to choose from there.

Below, we’ll list them by university, citing some of the most popular courses from each university on our site. Most of these courses are on YouTube, while some of them are on iTunes, Archive.org, or the university’s website. Browse around and find a course to enjoy!

1. Harvard University – The prestigious Harvard features about 20 courses to choose from including the popular philosophy course Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do? by Professor Michael Sandel and they’re very popular Introduction to Computer Science course that they’ve been offering for many years.

2. Stanford University – The equally prestigious Stanford offers about 40 courses with a course on iTunes about the Historical Jesus and a video course on Human Behavioral Biology taught by superstar Professor Robert Sapolsky.

3. Yale Open Courses – Ivy league university Yale offers over 40 course from their Open Courses program. You’ll find a great Introduction to Psychology by Professor Paul Bloom and a Financial Markets course taught by Nobel Prize-winning Professor Robert J. Shiller. The lectures are available on YouTube and MP3 audio download via the Yale Open Courses website.

4. MIT OpenCourseWare – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers hundreds of courses for free on YouTube and their OpenCourseWare website. While some of them get pretty technical, we tried to add the courses to our site that were most relevant to a wider audience. Take a course on The Human Brain or Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation for ESL students.

5. Columbia University – Columbia University in New York offers about 10 free course on YouTube. You’ll find two world history course in History of the World to 1500 CE and History of the World Since 1500 CE taught by Professor Richard Bulliet. They also have a course called The Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism taught by Buddhist author and academic Robert Thurman.

6. webcast.berkeley – University of California, Berkeley was a pioneer in broadcasting free courses on audio & video. In 2017, they removed their course online, but thankfully some of them have popped up on Archive.org and we link to over a dozen of them, including philosophy courses Man, God, and Society in Western Literature and Existentialism in Literature and Film both taught by Professor Hubert L. Dreyfus.

7. UCLA BruinCast – 15 free video courses from the University of California, Los Angeles including a course on Intimate Relationships and a course on Science, Magic, and Religion.

8. Missouri State University – 14 free video courses on YouTube with an Introduction to Philosophy course and a course on literary heroes called
The Heroic Quest.

9. University of Chicago – Six courses on video, including a course on Human Capital taught by Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker.

10. New York University – A dozen courses on video, including an Introduction to Sociology and a course called New York City: A Social History.

11. University of Houston – Over 30 free video courses with a popular course on the Fundamentals of Public Speaking.

12. Virtual University of Pakistan – Over 25 free courses from the Virtual University of Pakistan with a course on
Pakistan Studies.

13. UC San Diego – Over 100 podcasted courses from UC San Diego available on audio. We plan to add even more of these soon.

14. Cal State Dominguez Hills – Over 30 video courses on YouTube from Cal State Dominguez.

15. UC Davis – A dozen free video courses mostly available on YouTube.

16. Indian Institutes of Technology – 10 free video courses, including one on Indian Philosophy.

17. University of Michigan – 20 free video courses from YouTube, iTunes, and Coursera.

18. The Master’s Seminary – Over a dozen free video courses on Christian topics.

19. Middle East Technical University – Seven video courses available from YouTube.

20. La Trobe University – A dozen podcasted audio courses on iTunes, including philosophy courses like The Philosophy of Descartes and The Philosophy of Hume.

21. East Tennessee State University – Eight video courses, including many art history courses taught by Dr. Vida Hull.

22. Biola University – Over 20 free video courses on YouTube from this Christian university in Southern California.

And for 70 more free video courses on YouTube from various institutions, check out our page for:

YouTube Free Video Courses

Enjoy a free audio or video course that interests you today!