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 Udacity, Google 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.

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

• Free Google Skillshop Certifications
• Free Google Analytics Certification
• Free Google Digital Marketing Certification
• Free Google Play Academy Certificate
• Free Badges from Google Cloud Skills Boost (Quiklabs)
• Free Google Developer Badges
• More Free Certificates

Free Google Skillshop Certifications

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:

• Google Ads Apps Certification
• Google Ads – Measurement Certification
• AI-Powered Shopping ads Certification
• Google Ads Creative Certification
• Google Ads Display Certification
• Google Ads Search Certification
• Grow Offline Sales Certification
• AI-Powered Performance Ads Certification
• Google Ads Video Certification

Free Google Analytics 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

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 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)

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:

• Introduction to Generative AI from Google ★★★★★(24)
• Introduction to Responsible AI from Google ★★★★☆(11)
• Gmail from Google ★★★★★(2)
• Google Sheets – Advanced Topics from Google ★★★★★(2)
• Introduction to Image Generation from Google ★★★★★(1)
• Google Calendar from Google ★★★★★(1)
• Google Sheets from Google ★★★★★(1)
• Planetary Scale Earth Observation with Google Earth Engine from Google ★★★★★(1)
• Introduction to Large Language Models from Google ★★★★☆(1)
• Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability from Google
• Attention Mechanism from Google
• Transformer Models and BERT Model from Google
• Create Image Captioning Models from Google
• Encoder-Decoder Architecture from Google
• Introduction to Google Workspace Administration from Google
• Managing Google Workspace from Google
• Google Workspace Security from Google
• Google Workspace Mail Management from Google
• Google Docs from Google
• Google Drive from Google
• Google Meet from Google
• Google Slides from Google
• Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment from Google
• Google Chat from Google
• Preparing for Your Google Workspace Administrator Journey from Google
• Chronicle Technical Training from Google
• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos from Google
• Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam from Google
• Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations from Google
• Innovating with Data and Google Cloud from Google
• Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud from Google
• Developing a Google SRE Culture from Google
• Managing Change when Moving to Google Cloud from Google
• Deploying SAP on Google Cloud from Google
• The Modern Data Platform and LookML from Google
• Digital Transformation with Google Cloud from Google
• Managing and Securing the Apigee Hybrid API Platform from Google
• Upgrading and Monitoring the Apigee Hybrid API Platform from Google
• Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey from Google
• Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey from Google
• Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey from Google
• Innovating with Data and Google Cloud from Google
• Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey from Google
• Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud from Google
• Design Foundations for Streaming with Google Cloud from Google
• Introduction to Cloud Identity from Google

Free Google Developer Badges

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:

• Build your first web app with Firebase
• Get started with Google Maps Platform
• Build apps with Flutter
• Introduction to SQL
• Get data from the internet
• Adapt for different screen sizes
• Build Actions for Google Assistant
• Kotlin fundamentals
• Get started with object detection
• Implement Material Design in web apps
• Develop locally with Firebase
• Make your Android app more accessible
• Use Actions on Google to make your home smarter
• Location-based features in Android
• Build cross-platform apps with Angular
• Cloud Run and serverless computing
• Jetpack Compose basics

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

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