Studying at Stanford

Anyone can now study at the elite Stanford University – online. Stanford has been offering free online courses since October, and due to high demand the offering has now been expanded.
Stanford University campus with buildings and palm trees.

Archive notice: This article was originally published on January 11, 2012. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.

New courses start from January/February 2012, including on the topics of game theory, human-computer interaction and machine learning. Of the previous courses, “Artificial Intelligence” was the most popular course, with 160,000 enrollments. The courses take place entirely virtually. For each topic there are one or more video lessons that can not only be streamed but also downloaded if required.

The courses are intended to be tailored to both bachelor’s and master’s students, although prior specialist knowledge is not intended to be necessary. For the new courses, the video content is additionally intended to be supplied as text. Degrees can be obtained, but this is not an obligation; particpation out of pure curiosity or a hunger for knowledge is also possible.

Links to various courses:

Game Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Information Theory

Machine Learning