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MOOC MBA (2026 update)
An updated take on the 2019 freeCodeCamp / benedictusdps/MOOC-MBA list.
What changed since 2019
- Coursera replaced its free audit option (Aug 2025) with a free preview of each course's first module. Full access and certificates need a subscription or a 7-day trial.
- Ways to take the Coursera courses free now:
- Financial aid: on each course page, "Financial aid available". Historically grants full access incl. certificate.
- 7-day free trial: do one course in a week.
- Open alternatives (marked Free below): MIT OpenCourseWare, Damodaran's NYU lectures, etc.
- Legend: ✅ checked on the course page in Oct 2026 · ❓ carried over from the 2019 list, not re-checked (links may have moved) · 🆕 added in this update (from memory; verify availability).
Foundational Business Concepts
All four are in Penn's Business Foundations Specialization (6 courses incl. a capstone). Take them as individual courses to use financial aid per course.
- ✅ Introduction to Marketing (Penn)
- ✅ Introduction to Financial Accounting (Penn)
- ✅ Introduction to Operations Management (Penn)
- ✅ Introduction to Corporate Finance (Penn)
- ✅ Managing Social and Human Capital (Penn), also in the Specialization
- ✅ Wharton Business Foundations Capstone (Penn), only via the Specialization
Free substitutes
- Free ✅ MIT OCW: Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting: problem sets and exams with solutions (2004 materials, fundamentals still valid)
- Free 🆕 Aswath Damodaran, Corporate Finance and Valuation (NYU Stern, lectures and slides on his website / YouTube)
General Business and Management Skills
- ❓ Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling (Penn)
- ❓ Decision-Making and Scenarios (Penn)
- ❓ Managing Talent (Michigan)
- ❓ Leading Teams (Michigan)
- ❓ Inspiring and Motivating Individuals (Michigan)
- ❓ Making Successful Decisions through the Strategy, Law & Ethics Model (Michigan)
- ❓ Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills (Michigan)
- ❓ Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution (Northwestern)
- ❓ High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation (Northwestern)
- ❓ Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling (Northwestern)
Free substitutes / additions
- Free 🆕 MIT OCW: Sloan leadership, negotiation and marketing courses (search ocw.mit.edu, Sloan School of Management)
- 🆕 Financial Markets (Yale), listed in Coursera's current catalog
- 🆕 Rumelt, Good Strategy / Bad Strategy (book): strategy backbone
Concentration: pick one and go deep
Entrepreneurship
- ❓ Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity (Penn)
- ❓ Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up (Penn)
- ❓ Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies (Penn)
- ❓ Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability (Penn)
- ❓ Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Harvard, edX)
- ❓ Becoming an Entrepreneur (MIT, edX)
- ❓ CS50's Computer Science for Business Professionals (Harvard, edX)
- Free 🆕 MIT OCW: New Enterprises
Finance
- ❓ Financial Engineering and Risk Management (Columbia), quantitative
- ❓ Modeling Risk and Realities (Penn)
- ❓ Free Cash Flow Analysis (Columbia, edX)
- ❓ Advanced Valuation and Strategy: M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital (Erasmus)
Digital Strategy / Marketing Analytics
The 2019 social media and content-strategy courses (Northwestern) are dated and have been dropped from this update. Kept:
- ❓ Marketing Analytics series (UC Berkeley, edX): Price and Promotion, Competitive Analysis and Segmentation, Products/Distribution/Sales, Measurement Strategy
- ❓ Omnichannel Strategy and Management (Dartmouth, edX)
New: AI and analytics (not in 2019)
- 🆕 AI For Business Specialization (Wharton)
- 🆕 AI For Everyone (Andrew Ng)
- 🆕 Excel Skills for Business Specialization
- Free 🆕 MIT OCW: The Analytics Edge (statistics / analytics)
Capstone
Write a business plan or a full strategy-and-financials analysis of a real company, applying everything above. Use the Wharton capstone only if you take the Specialization.
Last checked: October 2026. Coursera availability and pricing change often. Confirm on each course page before starting.