Carnegie Mellon University - Free Courses

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a top ranked private research university in the US.

CMU Ranking Performance:
- ranked 6th in the world for Engineering and IT by the Times Higher Education - Quacquarelli Symonds (THE - QS) in 2008.
- 21st globally by THES 2008 ranking of World Top 200 Universities.
- Its undergraduate program is rated 22nd in the nation amongst national research universities by the US News & World Report 2010.
- ranked 15th for social sciences and 7th for Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ARWU Subject League Tables.

CMU offers a number of free online courses through a program called Open Learning Initiative (OLI) (http://www.cmu.edu/oli/). OLI courses include a number of innovative online instructional components such as: cognitive tutors, virtual laboratories, group experiments, and simulations. Anyone can study the entire course in an online format.

Open and Free Courses:
  • Engineering Statics
  • Statistics
  • Causal & Statistical Reasoning
  • Modern Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Economics
  • French
  • Logic & Proofs
  • Physics
  • Empirical Research Methods
  • Computational Discrete Mathematics
  • Visual Communication Design
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