Below is a comprehensive list of over 238 free online science, math and premedical courses.
Many of these are geared to the pre-pa student, but there are several courses covering more advanced medical topics, such as the free Stanford Mini Med School, topics in endocrinology, brain and behavior, physiology, global health and genomics.
Whether you are looking to augment current coursework, prep for your GREs or relax after a long day with some advanced astrophysics there is bound to be something here for everyone.
Biology and Biomedical Science Courses
- Adolescent Health and Development – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio – Robert Blum, Johns Hopkins
- Anatomy & Physiology – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences – Free Online Audio & Course Info – Paul A. Locke & Alan M. Goldberg, Johns Hopkins
- Animal Behavior – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio & Course Info – Gerald Schneider, MIT
- Animal Science – Free iTunes Audio – Bert de Groef, La Trobe University – Australia
- Autism and Related Disorders – Free iTunes Video – Fred Volkmar, Yale
- Behavioral Endocrinology – Feed – Johns Hopkins
- Biochemistry – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Biochemistry for Pre-Meds – Free iTunes Video – Kevin Ahern, Oregon State
- Biodiversity and the Meaning of Human Existence – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – E.O. Wilson, Duke
- Biophotonics – Free iTunes Video – UC Davis
- Bioscience in the 21st Century – Free Online Video – Team taught, Lehigh University
- Brain and Behavior – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Wendy Suzuki, NYU
- Brain Structure and its Origins – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio & Course Info – Gerald Schneider, MIT
- Cardiovascular Grand Rounds – Free iTunes Video – Multiplate faculty, Emory
- Case Studies in Primary Healthcare – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio & Course Info – Henry Taylor & Henry Perry, Johns Hopkins
- Computational Molecular Biology – Free Online Course Info & Video – Douglas Brutlag, Stanford
- Darwin’s Legacy – Free Online Video – Team taught – Stanford
- Diet and Nutrition – Free iTunes Audio – La Trobe University – Australia
- Enhancing Humane Science – Improving Animal Research – Free Online Video/Audio & Course Info – Alan M. Goldberg & James Owiny, Johns Hopkins
- Environmental Health Sciences – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Course Video – Kirk Smith, UC Berkeley
- Evolution – Free iTunes Video – James Bonacum, University of Illinois, Springfield
- Evolution and Medicine – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
- Evolution, Ecology and Behavior – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Course Info – Stephen C. Stearns, Yale
- Exercise Science and Wellness – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology – Free Online Video– Free Online Video + Course Info – Christopher Burge, David Gifford, Ernest Fraenkel, MIT
- Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Course Info – W. Mark Saltzman, Yale
- Fundamentals of Biology – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Multiple Instructors, MIT
- General Biology 1 – Feed – John Hopkins
- General Biology 1 – Free iTunes Video – Free Course Info & Audio – Brian White, UMass-Boston
- General Biology 2 – Free iTunes Video – Free Course Info & Audio – Brian White, UMass-Boston
- General Biology – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Course Video – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Free iTunes Video – Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- General Human Anatomy – Free Online Video – Free Course Video – Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
- General Introduction to Plant Development, Form, and Function – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Course Video – Multiple profs, UC Berkeley
- Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law – Free Online Video – Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA
- Genomes and Diversity – Free Course Info & Video – Mark Siegal, NYU
- Genomics & Computational Biology – Free Online Course Info & Audio – George Church, MIT
- Genomic Medicine – Free Online Course Info & Audio – Isaac Kohane, MIT
- Global Problems of Population Growth – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – Robert Wyman, Yale
- Growing Up in the Universe – Free Online Video – Richard Dawkins, Oxford
- Hacking Consciousness: Consciousness, Cognition and the Brain – Free iTunes Video – Michael Heinrich, Stanford
- Health and Culture – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Health Behavior Change at the Individual, Household and Community Levels – Free Course Info & Audio – Free iTunes Audio – Peter Winch, Johns Hopkins
- Human Behavioral Biology – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Robert Sapolsky, Stanford
- Introduction to Biochemistry – Free iTunes Video (see free related ebook on iPad) – Kevin Ahern, Oregon State
- Introductory Biology – Free Course Info & Online Video – Multiple professors, MIT
- Introduction to Biology – Free Online Video – Multiple Professors – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Biology – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Introduction to Cellular & Molecular Biology – Free iTunes Audio – Lawrence Chasin & Deborah Mowshowitz, Columbia U.
- Introduction to Human Nutrition – Free Online Audio – Nancy Amy, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Human Physiology – Free iTunes Audio – Robin Ball, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Immunology – Free iTunes Video – Gregory Beck, U Mass-Boston
- Introduction to Toxicology – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Daniel Nomura, Christopher D. VULPE, Wally Wang, UC Berkeley
- Issues in Mental Health Research in Developing Countries – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Course Info & Audio – Judith Bass, Johns Hopkins
- Life, Concepts and Issues: Introduction to Life Sciences for Non-Science Majors – Free Online Video – Jay Phelan, UCLA
- Modern Biology – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Molecular Biology: Macromolecular Synthesis and Cellular Function – Free iTunes Audio – Multiple Professor, UC Berkeley
- Molecules and Cells – Feed – Johns Hopkins
- Pharmacology – Free iTunes Video – Sharon Burke, La Salle University
- Plant Science – Free iTunes Audio – Michael Emmerling, La Trobe University
- Pre-Med Primer: What Your Advisor Won’t Tell You – Free iTunes Video (plus related textbook on iPad and or PDF) – Kevin Ahern, Oregon State
- Principles of Human Development – Free iTunes Video – Jim Meyer, Missouri State
- Principles of Human Nutrition – Free iTunes Audio – Regina Belski, La Trobe University – Australia
- Pulmonary Medical School – Free iTunes Audio – Matthew Exline, Ohio State
- Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering – Free iTunes Audio – Jill Helms, Stanford
- Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics – Free iTunes Audio – Christopher Scott, Stanford
- The Brain: A User’s Guide – Free iTunes Video – Barry Jacobs, Princeton
- The Future of Human Health – Free Online Video – Jennifer Raymond, Stanford
- The History of Public Health – Free iTunes Audio – Free Course Info & Online Audio – Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
- The Stanford Mini Med School (Fall) – Free Online Video – Free Course Video & Info – Multiple Professors
- The Stanford Mini Med School (Winter) – Free Online Video – Free Course Video & Info – Multiple Professors
- The Stanford Mini Med School (Spring) – Free Online Video & Course Info – Multiple Professors
- The Stanford Mini Med School: The Heart – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Multiple Professors
- Urban Health in Developing Countries – Free Web Cours – Abdullah Baqui and William Brieger, Johns Hopkins
- Virology – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University
Chemistry Courses
- Biochemistry 1 – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – S. Dasgupta, IIT
- Chemical Structure and Reactivity –Free Online Video – Web – Peter Vollhardt, UC Berkeley
- Chemistry (Chemical Stoichiometry) – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Core Concepts in Chemistry – Free iTunes iOS Course – Stephen L. Craig – Duke
- Freshman Organic Chemistry – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Course Materials – J. Michael McBride, Yale
- Freshman Organic Chemistry II – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Course Materials – J. Michael McBride, Yale
- Fundamentals of Chemistry – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Vernon Thielmann, Missouri State
- General Chemistry – Free iTunes Video – Matthew Stoltzfus, Ohio State
- Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability – Free Online Video – John Arnold, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Chemistry – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Channing Robertson, Stanford
- Introduction to Green Chemistry – Free Online Video – Paul Anastas, Yale
- Introduction to Solid State Chemistry – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Video & Course Info – Donald Sadoway, MIT
- Introductory Quantum Chemistry – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – KL Sebastian, IISc Bangalore
- Life, Universe & Everything: Chemistry of Our Daily Lives – Free iTunes Video – Sean Hickey, University of New Orleans
- Lights, Camera, Action: The Chemistry of Movies & TV – Free iTunes Video – Sean Hickey, University of New Orleans
- Organic Chemistry – Free iTunes Video – James Nowick, UC Irvine
- Organic Chemistry 1 – Free iTunes iOS Course – Sean Hickey, U. of New Orleans
- Organic Chemistry 2 – Free iTunes iOS Course – Sean Hickey, U. of New Orleans
- Organic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals – Free Online Video – Steven Hardinger, UCLA
- Organic Spectroscopy – Free iTunes Video – James Nowick, UC Irvine
- Physical Chemistry 1 – Free iTunes Video – James Lisy, University of Illinois
- Physical Chemistry 2 – Free iTunes Video – James Lisy, University of Illinois
- Principles of Chemical Science – Free Online Video – MIT, Catherine Drennan and Elizabeth Vogel Taylor
Physics Courses
- A Brief Guide to Everything – Web Video – John Ellis, King’s College London, CBE
- A Descriptive Introduction to Physics – Free Online Video – Steven W. Stahler, UC Berkeley
- A Descriptive Introduction to Physics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Yury G. Kolomensky, UC Berkeley
- Advanced Quantum Mechanics – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Atomic and Optical Physics I – Free Online Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
- Atomic and Optical Physics II – Free Online Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
- Classical Field Theory – Free Online Video – Free Video Download– Suresh Govindarajan, IIT Madras
- Classical Physics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – V.Balakrishnan, IIT Madras.
- Effective Field Theory – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Iain Stewart
- Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Course Info & Free Video – Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
- Descriptive Introduction to Physics – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
- Electromagnetism and Optics – Free iTunes Video – Michael Thorpe, Arizona State
- Fundamentals of Physics – Free Online Video – Free Video & Course Materials – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
- Fundamentals of Physics II – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Web Site – Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
- History and Mysteries of the Universe – Free Online Video + Course Info – Max Tegmark, MIT
- Inflationary Theory – Free Online Video – Alan Guth, MIT/World Science U
- Introduction to Astrophysics – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Josh Bloom, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Cosmology and Particle Physics – Free Online Video – Sean Carroll, Caltech
- Introduction to Cosmology – Free iTunes Audio – James Bullock, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Solar System Astronomy – Free iTunes Audio – Feed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
- Introductory Physics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Melvin Pomerantz, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Physics – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Classical Mechanics – Free iTunes iOS Course – Free Online Video – Video & Materials – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (2008) – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (2013)– Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Video & Materials – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity (2013) – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Video & Materials – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (2012) – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Video & Course Materials
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Cosmology (2009) – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Cosmology (2013) – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Video & Course Materials – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Statistical Mechanics (2013) – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Video & Course Materials – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- New Adventures in Spacetime – Web Video – Eleanor Knox, King’s College London
- Physics: What We Still Don’t Know – Web Video – David Tong, Cambridge
- Principles of Physics – Free iTunes Audio – David Hoxley, La Trobe
- Quantum Electrodynamics – Free Online Video – Richard Feynman, Presented at University of Auckland
- Quantum Entanglement Part 1: (Video) – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Quantum Entanglement Part 3: (Video) – Free Online Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Quantum Mechanics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio & Video – Free YouTube Video – JJ Binney, Oxford University
- Quantum Mechanics – Free iTunes Audio – Feed – John Terning, UC Davis
- Quantum Mechanics 1 – Free iTunes Audio – Ruza Markov, UC Berkeley
- Quantum Mechanics 2 – Free iTunes Audio – Ruza Markov, UC Berkeley
- Quantum Physics 1 – Free Online Video & Course Info – Free iTunes Video – Allan Adams, MIT
- Quantum Physics 2 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Barton Zweibach, MIT
- Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple – Free Online Video – Our Post – Hans Bethe, Cornell University
- Quantum Theory – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Prasanta Tripathy, IIT Madras
- Physics I: Classical Mechanics – Free Online Video – Walter Lewin, MIT
- Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism – Free Online Video – Walter Lewin, MIT
- Physics III: Vibrations and Waves – Free Online Video – Walter Lewin, MIT
- Physics for Future Presidents – Free Online Video – Web – Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers – Free Online Audio – Free iTunes Audio – Achilles Speliotopoulos, UC Berkeley
- Physics for the 21st Century – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Matthew H. Schneps – Harvard/Smithsonian
- Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter – Free Online Video – Team taught, Harvard
- Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation – Free Online Video – David Attwood, UC Berkeley
- Solid State Basics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Steven Simon, Oxford
- Space, Time and Einstein – World Science U
- Special Relativity – Free Online Video – Brian Greene, Columbia/World Science U
- Special Theory of Relativity – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Shiva Prasad, IIT Bombay
- Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe – Free iTunes Audio – Feed – Richard Pogge, Ohio State
- Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles – Free Online Video + Course Materials – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Mehran Kardar, MIT
- Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Physics of Fields – Free iTunes Video– Mehran Kardar, MIT
- String Theory, Black Holes, and the Laws of Nature (Video) – Free Online Video – Andrew Strominger, Harvard
- String Theory and M Theory – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- The Character of Physical Law – Free Course Video – Free Online Video – Richard Feynman, Cornell
- The Early Universe – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Free Online Video + Course Info – Alan Guth, MIT
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat – Text/Web – Richard Feynman, Caltech
- The Mechanical Universe – Free Online Video – Cal Tech
- The Past and Future of Unification – Free Online Video – Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
- Universe or Multiverse – Free Online Video + Course Info – Andrei Linde, Stanford
- Wave Physics – Free Online Video – F. Romanelli (University of Trieste)
Math Courses
- A First Course in Linear Algebra – Free Online Video – N J Wildberger, UNSW
- Abstract Algebra – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Benedict Gross – Harvard
- Against All Odds: Inside Statistics – Free Online Video – Pardis Sabeti, Harvard
- Algebraic Topology: A Beginner’s Course – Free Online Video – NJ Wildberger, University of New South Wales
- Analytic Geometry and Calculus – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Benjamin Johnson, UC Berkeley
- Analytic Geometry and Calculus (Continuation of above) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video, Thomas Scanlon, UC Berkeley
- Brief Calculus – Free iTunes Video – Omayra Ortega, Arizona State
- Calculus – Free iTunes Audio – F. Michael Christ, UC Berkeley
- Calculus 1 – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – Matthew Leingang, NYU
- Calculus One – Free iTunes iOS Course – Jim Fowler, Ohio State
- Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus (1970) – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – Free Course Info & Online Video – Herb Gross, MIT
- Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus (1970) – Free Online Video –Free iTunes Video – Free Course Info & Online Video – Herb Gross, MIT
- Calculus Revisited: Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra (1972) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Course Info & Online Video – Herb Gross, MIT
- Causal & Statistical Reasoning – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- College Algebra – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Patti Blanton, Missouri State
- College Algebra – Free iTunes Video – Oiyin Pauline Chow, HACC
- College Mathematics – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Patti Blanton, Missouri State
- Computational Science and Engineering I Free Online Video – Web Site – Gilbert Strang, MIT
- Core Science Mathematics – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – SK Ray, IIT
- Differential Equations – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – MIT – Arthur Mattuck
- Differential & Integral Calculus – Free Online Video – Steve Butler, UCLA
- Empirical Research Methods – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Engineering Statistics – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Geometric Folding Algorithms:Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra – Free Online Video & Course Info – Erik Demaine, MIT
- History of Mathematics – Free Online Video – N J Wildberger, UNSW
- Hyperbolic Geometry – Free Online Video – N J Wildberger, UNSW
- Introduction to Probability and Statistics – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Deborah Nolan, UC Berkeley
- Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business – Free Online Video– Free iTunes Video – Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis – Free iTunes Video – Brenda Gunderson, University of Michigan
- Linear Algebra – Free Online Video – Free Course Materials – Gilbert Strang, MIT
- Logic & Proofs – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Mathematical Logic – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Arindama Singh, IIT Madras
- Mathematics in India – From Vedic Period to Modern Times – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Multiple profs, IIT Bombay
- Mathematics for Computer Science – Free Web Video – Tom Leighton, MIT
- Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Keith Devlin, Stanford
- Mathematics Illuminated – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College
- Multiple View Geometry – Free Online Video – Daniel Cremers, Technische Universität München
- Multivariable Calculus – Free Online Video – Free Video & Course Info – Dennis Auroux, MIT
- Probability and Statistics – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Probability for Math Science – Free Online Video – Herbert Enderton, UCLA
- Rational Trigonometry – Free Online Video – N J Wildberger, UNSW
- Real Analysis – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – S.H. Kulkarni, IIT Madras
- Real Analysis – Free Online Video – Francis Su, Harvey Mudd
- Regression Analysis – Free Online Video – Free Video Download – Soumen Maity, IIT Kharagpu
- Single Variable Calculus – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Info – David Jerison, MIT
- Social Statistics – Free iTunes iOS Course – University of Oklahoma
- Statistical Reasoning – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Statistical Reasoning I – Free iTunes iOS Course – Free iTunes iOS Course – John McGready, Johns Hopkins
- Statistical Reasoning II – Free iTunes iOS Course – Free Online Audio & Course Materials – John McGready, Johns Hopkins
- Statistics – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences – Free Online Video – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Elizabeth Bauer, NYU
- Statistics for the Social Sciences – Free iTunes Video – Brad Fulton, Duke
- Statistics: Introduction to Probability – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard
- STEM Readiness – Free Web Course – Carnegie Mellon
- The Calculus Lifesaver – Free Online Video – Princeton Web Site – Adrian Banner, Princeton
- The Infinite Quest – Web Video – Peter Cameron, Queen Mary University of London
- Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance – Free Online Video & Course Materials – Multiple Staff, MIT
- Trigonometry – Free iTunes Video – Jason Rosenberry, HACC
- Vector Calculus – Free Online Video – Dr. Chris Tisdell, UNSW Sydney
