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[2024] 1000+ Free Google Certificates and Badges

Google offers many online courses with free certificates and badges. We’ve put together a full list.

From Gmail to Maps, Google offers a ton of useful apps. For instance, this article was originally drafted on Google Docs, like most of our articles at Class Central. What many people don’t know is that Google also offers many online courses — and some of them include free certificates or badges!

Indeed, besides offering courses on platforms like Coursera and UdacityGoogle itself runs a series of educational platforms with different goals. For example, the Google Cloud Skills Boost initiative, Google Skillshop, and Google Developer platforms offer online courses to help learners gain digital skills or prepare to run online businesses.

Fortunately, hundreds of these courses offer free badges and some have free certificates. We even earned a few ourselves, as you’ll see below. So we decided to sift through Google’s entire online learning ecosystem to compile all their free courses with badges or certificates.

In total, we found over 1000 courses, covering topics such as digital marketing, Google Analytics, and Google Cloud. You can find them below.

Please note, Class Central is not involved in running the courses or issuing certificates. This is a dynamic field and you may discover that a course you choose is no longer available, or doesn’t have a free certificate any more. We recommend you always check before starting a course.

Click on the shortcuts for courses with free certificates or badges:


Free Google Skillshop Certifications

Rui‘s free Google Ads 360 certificate

In 2024, Google Skillshop migrated their courses to a new platform. Google Skillshop provides free training programs for a large number of Google services, including their marketing tools. There are courses on all the following subjects: Google Ads, Google AdMob, Google Marketing Platform, Google My Business, YouTube, and more.

Currently, Google Skillshop offers 9 online courses with a free certificate of completion. You’ll unlock the certificate once you complete the course assessments. These courses are all text-based.

Google Skillshop Certificate courses:

Free Google Analytics Certification

Dhawal‘s free Google Analytics 4 certification

In 2023, Google completed the transition to the latest major version of its analytics platform, Google Analytics 4. For the occasion, Google launched new online courses, including a free certification program: Google Analytics Certification.

The course includes a series of videos, readings, and assessment. After getting a score of 80% or higher on the assessment, you’ll earn a free certificate of completion, like the one above. This will appear on your profile on the platform, but you can also download it and share it via LinkedIn. Some learners have reported a delay of 24 hours or so before the certificate becomes available.

Google has withdrawn its free certificate courses for the Universal Analytics platform that stopped working from July 1st, 2023.

Free Google Digital Marketing Certification

Google’s Fundamentals of Digital Marketing sample certificate

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing offered by Google includes a free certificate of completion. The course includes 26 modules, each with their own video and quiz. Once you complete all the modules, you’ll unlock a certificate like the one above. All your certificates will be added to your profile page.

If you’re interested in digital marketing, you may want to have a look at our dedicated compilation: 1000+ Free Digital Marketing Certificates & Badges.

Free Google Play Academy Certificate

Google Play Academy courses

Google Play Academy has over 100 free short courses available to help you build a successful app or game business. Courses are designed to be taken in under 10 minutes.

Currently, one free certificate is available: Google Play Store Listing Certificate. Take the component courses and exam to earn your certificate. Please note, it may take up to 7 days after passing the exam to receive your certificate by email.

Free Badges from Google Cloud Skills Boost (Qwiklabs)

Pat’s free Introduction to Generative AI badge

Qwiklabs, a startup acquired by Google and since then rebranded to Google Cloud Skills Boost (though the Qwiklabs name lingers), lets you learn Google Cloud through a hands-on approach.

We found 339 courses offering a free skills badge or completion badge. Here’s a selection:

Free Google Developer Badges

Google Developers Platforms course catalog

The Google Developers Platform offers a wealth of resources for professional and aspiring developers. In particular, the platform has over 1400 online courses and 700+ free badges from beginner to advanced levels. Check individual courses for badge availability.

Some prepare you for paid exams. Notably, a substantial portion of the platform’s catalog is dedicated to Android development.

Here’s a selection of courses:

If you’re a developer, you may also be interested in our dedicated article: 900+ Free Developer and IT Certifications

More Free Certificates

If you don’t find what you need here, browse Class Central’s catalog of 250K courses or visit our thematic collections:

You can find all our free certificates articles here.

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Rui Ma

With a background in Health Statistics and Sociology, she has built a career path in Data Analytics.
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Pat Bowden

Online learning specialist, still learning after 200+ online courses completed since 2012. Class Central customer support and help since 2018. I am keen to help others make the most of online learning, so I set up a website:  www.onlinelearningsuccess.org
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Manoel Cortes Mendez

Software engineer and online graduate student in computer science passionate about education, technology, and their intersection.

Comments 28

  1. George Nii Amoah Odamtten

    Thanks for such a great compilation. Being searching for one and your nailed it. Like the presentation and detail. Hoping to see more

    Reply
  2. Nicolas

    Amazing!

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    • Ana

      Thank you for such valuable information!

      Reply
  3. ami

    so much to learn with not so much time

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  4. Hoang Viet

    Thank you very much !

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    • Samman

      l hope I’ll be very great full to this site after this course.

      Reply
  5. Palwasha Saif

    This article helped me a lot, Thanks.

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  6. Md Moaz Ali

    Thanks a lot Google

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    • Afreen

      I have been looking and thinking what to do in my career break, here I go.
      thank you Google hope I will reset my career.

      Reply
  7. Muhammad Bilal Mohib-ul-Nabi

    Amazing Work.Thank you so much.

    Reply
  8. zayed

    Hi

    But those quest learning path are not free right
    they require credits

    Reply
  9. Opeyemi Olanihun

    This is great! So much to learn. Thanks a lot, Rui!

    Reply
  10. Beatric Anary

    Awesome and helpful. Thanks so much.

    Reply
  11. Jenny Tailya

    Wow, this was a suggested article from Google because I been looking for things like this for the last month. Scarry! Lots to learn and summer is here! I wish I saw this in Jan.

    Reply
  12. Faiza

    Amazing

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  13. PRAVEEN RAO

    Wow..thanks for this article..helped a lot..

    Reply
  14. Christophe Marti

    Great… thank you very much for your work

    Reply
  15. Chibuike

    Please, is this page updated regularly? I want to bookmark it.

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    • Dhawal Shah

      Yes, we do update it regularly.

      Reply
  16. Imdad

    Amazing collection. Thanks for your hard work

    Reply
  17. Mounir

    Thans a lot for sharing

    Reply
  18. Helen

    Wow! Awesome collection.
    Thanks for the compilation and for sharing this.

    Reply
  19. Dhn Br

    Thank you so much

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  20. Nammi satish

    The great opportunity for thank you

    Reply
  21. CLIFF SONSEH DAJONGHA

    I completed two courses but couldn’t get my certificate yet

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  22. Peter

    Google certification courses are not really as we need to Coursera monthly subscription fee.

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  23. Chima

    Thanks Rui
    You have exposed me to a world of unhindered learning.

    Reply
    • Gizachew Diga Milki

      It is very good work. It will also be better if you make Letter grade/or total score out 100% while you evaluate and certify the learner’s specific course.

      Reply

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