50+ Online FREE Courses with Certificates [Till June 2021]
What are the best free online certificate courses?
Last time we had brought to you 50+ free certificate courses from the Coursera which were valid till December 2020. This time again Coursera has made available about 50+ free online free courses with certificates. Usually, you will find many free courses on various online learning platforms, these courses are free and open to anyone with full access to the video lectures and assignments. However, you need to pay certain amount for getting a course completion certificate. Thus it isnโt easy to find courses where you can get the course completion certificate free of cost.
This post has listed online free courses with certificates available till the end of June 2021; you can pursue them and get the course completion certificate free of cost. They are free of cost, which doesnโt mean that they are not worth it. Honestly, if you see their organizers below and have a glance at their course enrollments, you could believe that they are really worth it.
Who is offering free certifications?
1. Amazon Web Services
2. American Museum of Natural History
3. Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
4. Atlassian
5. California Institute of the Arts
6. Duke University
7. Emory University
8. Google Cloud
9. Imperial College London
10. Indian School of Business
11. Intel
12. Johns Hopkins University
13. McMaster University
14. Michigan State University
15. Peking University
16. Rice University
17. Saint Petersburg State University
18. The State University of New York
19. The University of Edinburgh
20. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
21. Universitรย Bocconi
22. Universiteit Leiden
23. University of Cape Town
24. University of Colorado Boulder
25. University of Florida
26. University of Geneva
27. University of Houston
28. University of Michigan
29. University of Toronto
30. University of Virginia
31. VMware
32. Yonsei University
How can I get free certificates?
- Register to Coursera.org
- Login and select the desired course from the list below, I have selected a course from the category Ecology.
- On the course page, please check the blue banner, it should say “Enroll today to earn a free certificate”
- Click on the button “Enroll for Free”, and you are ready to go.
- From one user account, you can enroll for only one free course and is eligible for a free certificate
- Unfortunately, if you are visiting this blog post or are enrolling in the course after the date has passed, you can still pursue a course and get a certificate for FREE. This can be done by applying to the Coursera’s Scholarship Program.

Categories for the Online free Courses with Certificates
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1. Arts and Humanities (4)
2. Business and Communication (7)
3. Computer Science (5)
4. Data Science (1)
5. Health / Medical / COVID-19 Courses (23)
6. Ecology (1)
7. Information Technology / AWS / Cloud computing (6)
8. Language Learning (2)
9. Personal Development / Skill management (10)
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100 free life science courses from Coursera in 10 different subjects organized by over 50+ Universities Worldwide.
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We have listed 200 free data science courses organized by 30+ Universities and 20+ professional institutions hosted by Coursera.
II. List of Online Free Courses with Certificates from Coursera
Note: Throughout the list, every course has been provided with the information as below:
- Enrollments
- Approximate hours
- Course level
- Language
- Course organized by
1. Arts and Humanities
- 5,03,000+
- 19 hours
- For all
- English
- American Museum of Natural History
- 86,000+
- 8 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 44,000+
- 8 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Michigan State University
- 55,000+
- 127 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Florida
2. Business and Communication
- 94,000+
- 20 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Toronto
- 1,21,000+
- 8 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Toronto
- 11,000+
- 31 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Houston
- 1,30,000+
- 15 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Colorado Boulder
- 1,22,000
- 10 hours
- For all
- English
- Emory University
- 1,23,000+
- 10 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Peking University
- 1,36,000+
- 11 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Universiteit Leiden
3. Computer Science
- 2,93,000
- 22 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Michigan
- 1,80,000
- 12 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Atlassian
- 70,000+
- 13 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- Google Cloud
- 13,000+
- 3 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Intel
- 72,000+
- 13 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Houstony
4. Data Science
- 1,49,000+
- 9 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- Amazon Web Services
5. Health / Medical / COVID-19 Courses
- 4,07,000+
- 28 hours
- For all
- English
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 16,000+
- 8 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- University of Michigan
- 16,000+
- 8 hours
- For all
- English
- Emory University
- 5,000+
- 11 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The State University of New York
- 97,000+
- 3 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The University of Edinburgh
- 13,000+
- 7 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The University of Edinburgh
- 20,000+
- 22 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Johns Hopkins University
- 1,77,000+
- 22 hours
- For all
- English
- Indian School of Business
- 1,63,000+
- 7 hours
- For all
- English
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 53,000+
- 70 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Geneva
- 8,000+
- 14 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Michigan
- 45,000+
- 16 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Yonsei University
- 24,000+
- 19 hours
- For all
- English
- Johns Hopkins University
- 10,000+
- 8 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- The State University of New York
- 19,000+
- 8 hours
- For all
- English
- University of Geneva
- 3,56,000+
- 33 hours
- For all
- English
- Duke University
- 6,000+
- 20 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The University of Edinburgh
- 13,000+
- 22 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Florida
- 2,53,000+
- 11 hours
- For all
- English
- Johns Hopkins University
- 3,61,000+
- 6 hours
- For all
- English
- Emory University
- 2,000+
- 12 hours
- Beginner
- English
- California Institute of the Arts
- 2,56,000+
- 10 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Universitรย Bocconi
- 44,000+
- 20 hours
- Beginner
- English
- The State University of New York
6. Ecology
- 40,000+
- 9 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- University of Cape Town
7. Information Technology/ AWS/ Cloud computing
- 4,000+
- 7 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
- 10,000+
- 14 hours
- Beginner
- English
- VMware
- 7,000+
- 11 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Amazon Web Services
- 51,000+
- 11 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Amazon Web Services
- 15,000+
- 20 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- Google Cloud
- 34,000+
- 20 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- Google Cloud
8. Language Learning
- 9,43,000+
- 21 hours
- For all
- English
- Emory University
- 8,59,000+
- 18 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Google Cloud
9. Personal Development / Skill management
- 1,46,000+
- 20 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Rice University
- 1,92,000+
- 35 hours
- Beginner
- English
- University of Virginia
- 26,000+
- 4 hours
- Beginner
- English
- McMaster University
- 67,000+
- 13 hours
- For all
- English
- Saint Petersburg State University
- 43,000+
- 9 hours
- Intermediate
- English
- University of Colorado Boulder
- 1,77,000+
- 5 hours
- For all
- English
- Duke University
- 2,20,000+
- 7 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Rice University
- 3,45,000+
- 10 hours
- Beginner
- English
- California Institute of the Arts
- 1,05,000+
- 12 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Duke University
- 1,31,000+
- 32 hours
- Beginner
- English
- Imperial College London