238 Free Online Science, Math and Pre-Medical Courses

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

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