Distance Education Opportunities
Y Combinator Startup School
Startup School is a free 6-week online program and global community of founders. Start anytime.
Coursera from University of Michigan
This specialization is a guide to creating your own business. We will cover a progression of topics necessary for successful business creation including mindset, ideation, planning, action, and strategy. Rather than just describing what to do, the focus will be on guiding you through the process of actually doing it. The Capstone course will bring all of the tools and lessons discussed together for you to launch your business. It may not be the business of your dreams, but it will be a functional business giving you the execution capability to start something you are passionate about.
$79/month — self-paced
Developing an entrepreneurial mindset
The Search for Great Ideas: Harnessing creativity to empower innovation
Planning: Principled, proposing, proofing & practicing
Structure: Building the frame for business growth
Coursera From U Penn/Wharton
Wharton's Entrepreneurship Specialization covers the conception, design, organization, and management of new enterprises. This five-course series is designed to take you from opportunity identification through launch, growth, financing and profitability. With guidance from Wharton's top professors, along with insights from current Wharton start-up founders and financiers, you'll develop an entrepreneurial mindset and hone the skills you need to develop a new enterprise with potential for growth and funding, or to identify and pursue opportunities for growth within an existing organization.
$79/month — self-paced
1. Developing the opportunity
2. Launching your start-up
3. Growth strategies
4. Finance & Profit
5. Developing the opportunity
Ed X
All free content. 3000+ courses available from over 160 Universities. Choose over 700 self-paced courses.
Future Learn
Learn 100% online with world-class universities and industry experts. Develop hobbies, new skills, and career-changing expertise with our flexible courses.
Harvard Online
345 courses available including 137 business courses. Some are free.
MIT Open Course Ware
Free material from thousands of MIT courses.
Open Learn
900+ short courses ranging from 1 - 100 hours of study
Open Yale
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. Registration is not required. No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website.
Stanford Online
Choose from graduate and professional certificates, advanced degrees, global and executive education programs, lifelong learning, and free content. Entrepreneurial Leadership Graduate Certificate available.