Here are the 25 most popular free online university courses and massive open online courses (MOOCs) starting in June 2023, based on Class Central learners’ activity.

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Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools.

Introduction to Network Security
University of London International Programmes via Coursera
This course provides understanding of key technologies used in computer networks and infrastructure. This includes protocols, computer networks, data centres, operational technologies that form key infrastructure critical to the success of organisations and services from a local to an international scale.

The Making of Modern Ukraine
Yale University via Coursera
Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist?

Analytics, Law, and Athlete Representation
State University of New York via Coursera
In this course, we will discuss the interplay of law, data analysis, and athlete representation using the athlete’s career path trajectory as the focus. The intent is to introduce data analytical tools, laws, & regulations applicable to athlete representation throughout various stages of an athlete’s career.

Designing Engaging Dashboards for Healthcare Analytics
Northeastern University via Coursera
Introduces processes and design principles for creating meaningful displays of information that support effective business decision-making. Studies how to collect and process data; create visualizations (both static and interactive); and use them to provide insight into a problem, situation, or opportunity.

Operations Management: Organization and Analysis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Coursera
In this course, you will learn about the role of operations and how they are connected to other business functions in manufacturing and service-focused organizations. You will learn and practice the use of decision-making frameworks and techniques applicable at all levels.

Attaining Higher Education
Columbia University via Coursera
Prepare to transition to college using intentional decision-making. Aimed at active duty service members and veterans, with this course you will learn about the college admission process, including financial aid, to help you choose a right-fit college.

Web3 and Blockchain Fundamentals
INSEAD via Coursera
In this short course you’ll learn what Web3 is, and how it differs from Web1 and Web2 in important ways. You’ll explore blockchain as the foundational technology for the Web3 era, and will learn about key concepts, such as digital assets (tokens), smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and the blockchain “trilemma.”

A Strategic Approach to Cybersecurity
University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Cybersecurity affects everyone, including in the delivery of basic products and services. If you or your organization want to better understand how to address your cybersecurity, this is the course for you and your colleagues to take — from seasoned professionals to your non-technical colleagues.

Beer Quality: Color & Clarity
University of California, Davis via Coursera
In this course, you will learn about beer color and how it impacts a consumer’s perception of beer. Also discussed are the scientific factors affecting beer color and clarity. The methods of measuring and altering beer color are presented, as are ways to troubleshoot problems with beer color.

Pre-MBA Quantitative Skills: Data Analysis
Rice University via Coursera
This course will equip students with the quantitative skills needed to begin any Masters of Business Administration program. The goal is not to build foundational skills or expert mastery but rather, to provide some middle ground to “shake the rust off” skills that a typical MBA student probably knows, but may not have thought about for quite some time.

Environmental Science
Dartmouth College via Coursera
The Introduction to Environmental Science course explores the field of environmental science and encourages participants to understand how environmental scientists think.

Healthcare Analytics Essentials
Northeastern University via Coursera
In this course, you will have an opportunity to examine topics related to data-driven decision making in healthcare. You will be asked to consider both the patient and provider perspective and their contributions to improving the quality of care provided.

Creating Global Brands with Jagdish Sheth
University System of Georgia via Coursera
It is becoming increasingly important to expand into foreign markets. This requires creating global brands such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and Walmart. Global brands need to transcend cultural differences as well as compliance across countries with respect to logo, color, and other branding elements.

Introduction to Sensory Science
University of California, Davis via Coursera
Did you know there’s a science behind the flavors, textures, and aromas of the foods we eat, and why our favorite products look, feel, and smell the way that they do? In this course, we will provide a broad overview of the field of sensory science – its history, definition, and applications in academic research and in the consumer-packaged goods industry.

The Need for Systems Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
In this course, you will be introduced to principles of systems engineering and its importance to the development of complex systems. You will learn to identify and define systems, manage their complexity, and describe their life cycle. The course uses real-world engineering examples to address how the systems engineering approach can address challenges.

Sustainable Food Systems
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Coursera
Throughout this course, you will delve into the intricate details of the food production system through a system-thinking lens. You will examine the grand challenges faced by the food, fiber, and natural resource industries, and their repercussions on people, the planet, and profit.

Anatomy & Physiology: Levels of Organization
Rice University via Coursera
This course will provide a basic introduction to the human body. It will examine common organizational patterns and terms in anatomy. It will also provide a micro-level view of essential elements and compounds at the atomical and molecular level before expanding to the cellular and tissue levels.

Design for Additive Manufacturing
Arizona State University via Coursera
Should a part be made with additive manufacturing? If so, what process should one select, and what design choices should one make? This course seeks to answer these questions by providing a framework called the DFAM staircase, and by providing a scorecard for assessing appropriateness for additive manufacturing.

Hacking COVID-19: Metabolic Pathway Analysis Yields SARS-CoV-2 Drug Targets
University of California, San Diego via Coursera
Pathway Bioinformatics is a subfield of Bioinformatics that is concerned with computationally deriving functional insights from genomic data through analysis of molecular networks. This course will present principles and techniques from Pathway Bioinformatics, and will apply these methodologies to the search for drug targets for SARS-CoV-2.

Population, Food, and Soil
Dartmouth College via Coursera
This course explores the population-environment relationship. In this course, you will learn about the human population and the ways in which changes in the population affect the environment. Agriculture, soils, and the environmental implications of eating meat, vegetables, local, organic, sustainable, industrial, and other types of food are discussed too.

Modelling and measuring the Energy Transition
Politecnico di Milano via Coursera
This MOOC provides attendants with fundamental knowledge about the main challenges in modelling the energy transition at both global and regional levels, as well as the industrial ecology instruments to measure the associated impacts.

DevOps, DataOps, MLOps
Duke University via Coursera
Learn how to apply Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) to solve real-world problems. The course covers end-to-end solutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) pair programming using technologies like GitHub Copilot to build solutions for machine learning (ML) and AI applications.

Ethics in Engineering
University of Michigan via Coursera
On this four-week course, you’ll examine different historical case studies and understand how they led to classic engineering failures.

Essential Skills for Your Career Development
University of Leeds via Coursera
Explore professional career development methods to get your career on track and achieve success. This course will help you learn skills for life that would enable you to take your career to the next level. Using planning tools, you’ll identify the right career path for you, establish achievable goals and learn how to achieve them.

The Neuroscience of Personal Excellence
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
Many of us struggle to understand our actions and behavior in any given situation, especially when pressure and stress are highest. What if we could make better decisions, create healthy habits more easily, regulate our emotions, become more mentally tough and perform well under pressure?