MIT gives away its entire curriculum free: 2,500+ courses, 500M learners reached
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-10-24
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes the same material MIT students pay $65,000/year to access, completely free: 2,500+ courses spanning undergrad to PhD level across 30+ departments including CS, physics, math, engineering, economics, biology and business, with full lecture videos, problem sets with solutions, exams with answer keys, syllabi and textbooks.
The program has impacted over 500 million people worldwide, and MIT's YouTube channel is the largest .edu channel with 6M+ subscribers. The post also cites a self-taught developer who went from warehouse worker to software engineer at a Fortune 500 company without a degree, using only MIT resources.
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