MathWorks, the company behind the MATLAB programming language and software, offers 23 free online courses through their MATLAB Academy platform.

The courses introduce learners to the MATLAB language and tools — with a focus on machine learning — and MathWorks’ specialized software, such as Simulink.

Most notably, these MATLAB Academy courses include a free certificate of completion as well as an accompanying progress report.

In this article, we discuss MATLAB Academy, its online courses, and how to earn a free certificate.

• Platform
• Courses
• Free Certificates: How to Earn One
• More Free Certificates

Platform

As its name suggests, MATLAB Academy is MathWorks’ one-stop shop for learning MATLAB, and more generally, the MathWorks suite of software and tools.

The platform is dead simple. It takes the form of a list of resources broken down by subject, ranging from introductory free courses to more advanced paid courses. In this article, we focus on the free offerings.

MATLAB Academy’s resources essentially fall into two categories:

• Introductions to the MATLAB language and tools.
• Applications of MATLAB to topics like machine learning.

The courses interleave explanatory videos and practical activities that you’ll complete via a web-based version of MATLAB, which closely mirrors the experience you’d get installing the software locally.

The platform currently offers 69 online courses, with around 30 released in the last year. 23 of them free. We’ll continue to update this article as the offering expands.

Courses

Here’s the list of MATLAB Academy courses that include free certificates of completion, grouped into subjects. Click to jump to a subject:

• Programming (15)
• Engineering (5)
• Computer Science (1)
• Mathematics (1)
• Data Science (1)

Programming

• MATLAB Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★★(9)
• Machine Learning Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★★(2)
• Reinforcement Learning Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★★(1)
• Signal Processing Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★★(1)
• Stateflow Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★☆(1)
• Circuit Simulation Onramp from MathWorks
• Deep Learning Onramp from MathWorks
• Wireless Communications Onramp from MathWorks
• Simscape Onramp from MathWorks
• Optimization Onramp from MathWorks
• App Building Onramp from MathWorks
• Object-Oriented Programming Onramp from MathWorks
• Computer Vision Onramp from MathWorks
• Power Electronics Simulation Onramp from MathWorks
• MATLAB Coder Onramp from MathWorks

Engineering

• Simulink Onramp from MathWorks ★★★★★(1)
• Control Design Onramp with Simulink from MathWorks
• System Composer Onramp from MathWorks
• Power Systems Simulation Onramp from MathWorks
• Simscape Battery Onramp from MathWorks

Computer Science

• Image Processing Onramp from MathWorks

Mathematics

• Statistics Onramp from MathWorks

Data Science

• Curve Fitting Onramp from MathWorks

Free Certificates: How to Earn One

To take a free course on MATLAB Academy and earn a free certificate, simply:

1. Create a MathWorks account here.
2. Enroll in one of the free courses above.
3. Access your free certificate.

Once you enroll in a course, you’ll get immediate access to a certificate, like the one shown at the top of this article. The certificate lists your course progress. So if you want a 100% completion, you’ll still need to finish all the activities, naturally.

In addition, you’ll also get access to a progress report that lists the specific topics covered in the course as well as your per-topic progress, as you can see above.

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