(Original article published by Katherine Ouellette on Medium | October 20, 2025)
What if you could tap into MIT’s top-ranked undergraduate programs without ever setting foot on campus? With MIT Learn, developed by MIT Open Learning, anyone in the world can access thousands of courses and resources — 98% of them for free — including offerings from U.S. News and World Report’s top 2025–26 choices. Kickstart your engineering learning journey on MIT Learn with these recommendations, and stay tuned for other educational materials from our top-ranked computer science and business programs!
Engineering
- New Engineering Education Transformation Ways of Thinking
- Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems
- Models in Engineering
- Model-Based Systems Engineering: Documentation and Analysis
- Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
- Machine Learning, Modeling, and Simulation: Engineering Problem-Solving in the Age of AI
- Professional Certificate in Data Engineering
Aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering
- Unified Engineering: Materials and Structures
- Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight
- Engineering the Space Shuttle
- Analytical Subsonic Aerodynamics
- Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
Biomedical engineering
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Applications
- Design of Medical Devices and Implants
- Drug and Medical Device Development: A Strategic Approach
- Making a Cell Therapy
- Tissue Engineering and Organ Regeneration
Chemical engineering
- Math Boot Camp for Engineers
- Analysis of Transport Phenomena
- Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
- Advanced Thermodynamics
Computer engineering
- Computer System Engineering
- Computer Systems Security
- Introduction to Quantum Computing
- Quantum Algorithms for Cybersecurity, Chemistry, and Optimization
- Practical Realities of Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication
- Requirements for Large-Scale Universal Quantum Computation
- Professional Certificate in Data Engineering
Electrical/electronic/communications engineering
- Circuits and Electronics
- Electromagnetic Energy: From Motors to Lasers
- Power Electronics
- Signals, Systems, and Inference
- Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems
Materials engineering
- Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry
- Structure of Materials
- Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials
- Mechanical Behavior of Materials (Part 1): Linear Elastic Behavior
- Cellular Solids
- Organic and Biomaterials Chemistry: An Introduction to Polymer Chemistry
Mechanical engineering
- Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers
- Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes
- Elements of Structures
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals
- Engineering of Nuclear Reactors
Adapted from an MIT News story.
These courses and materials are available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, MITx MicroMasters, and MIT xPROⓇ, which are part of MIT Open Learning. OpenCourseWare offers free, online, open educational resources from more than 2,500 courses that span the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. MITx offers high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide. MicroMasters Programs are graduate-level digital credentials from MIT that help learners accelerate their careers and Master’s degrees. xPROⓇ provides professional development opportunities to a global audience via online courses and blended programs.
