5 Free Online Courses Every Average Student Must Take

In 2025 there will be two groups of people, first those who will be just completing the assignments of their college degree, and second will be those who will upskill themselves, learn new-age skills, focus on themselves and will grow as well.

If you are here reading this article then you want to be in the second group, and that’s why in this article we will be discussing the 5 courses that you must do in 2025 if you think that you are average.

Before diving in let me clear that “A person is not average but the thinking of the person can be average”.

So, today we will be discussing the 5 courses from top colleges and institutions like Stanford, Harvard, google etc. and after completing these courses you will get certificates as well.

Without further let's discuss these 5 courses that you need to do in 2025.

1. CS50 Introduction to Computer Science

An amazing course called CS50 is taught by an instructor named “David J. Malan”. If you want to learn anything about computer science, and software development, and if you even have the slightest curiosity, then definitely do this course. This course is the overall foundation of computer science.

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I think this is the course that everyone should do regardless of which stream you want to go into. Knowing how software works is important because as ‘Mark Andersen’ said ‘software is eating the world’ and so you need to know how the software can revolutionize your industry. And that’s why this course is so important.

In the beginning, David Malan talks about how the software really works and how algorithms operate, what are data structures, what languages can do, how web development works, how game development works, and how AI works. And so much more.

 In this course, you will be learning languages like C++ and Python.

You can visit the course by the link provided or just go to Edex and enroll for the course. Or you can go to YouTube channel of cs50 and take a look at this course.

Every year a new version of this course is launched, just go and learn about all the above-mentioned things.

2. HUBSPOTS Digital Marketing Certification

Digital marketing in 2025 is probably the hottest industry to be in, as there are a lot of opportunities and a lot of people who are making lakhs and crores of rupees as a digital marketer in their jobs or by building their businesses.

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Despite having so many opportunities, many people do not know what the potential of digital marketing is and that’s why it’s a very important field for you to learn about, and this is a perfect course for you to get started.

HubSpot Academy is a platform where this course is available for you for completely free and along with that you will also get a certificate if you complete this course.

It’s a very short and simple, to-the-point course which is taught by experienced professionals.

These professionals tell you everything about digital marketing like what is email marketing, what is social media marketing, blogging, search engine optimization, and how you can start in all these fields from scratch.

This is a very interesting course, if you are ever interested in social media, Instagram, and then take this course and you will understand the basics of how websites work, how you can work with a website and create their digital presence.

You will also learn about how you can bring more clients, customers or visitors to a website and on their business.

In just 4 to 5 hours you will learn all the basics from start to end. So, what are you waiting for go and enroll for the course.

3. Augmented Reality

Another exciting and fascinating field I.e. Artificial Intelligence (AI).

After the launch of Apple Vision Pro and meta quist, this field has exploded and a lot of people are trying out AR and VR for the first time in their lives, which means they will be using AR applications and that’s where the big opportunity lies, In creating those AR experiences for them from scratch.

In 2007, when the iPhone was launched, the app store came out and that became a billion-dollar opportunity for people to make a ton of money by creating applications for iPhones.

The same opportunity is here again but in the form of AR on AR headsets. If you want to get started Meta has itself created a course for you to try out on course era named the “FOUNDATIONS OF AR”.

Simply by just logging in on course era and enroll for the course for free.

In this course you will be taught about the basics of AR, “How are AR apps Built”, what is vufoira, how to use Unity, and how to use spark AR which is a self-made application by meta for building AR applications and experiences.

You do not need any coding, you just need to have curiosity to take up this course and after that, you can go on to the next level and learn more about spark AR.

After completing this course, you can take another course by meta and audit to enroll for free.

So, if you want to learn about how to create AR applications, enroll for the course for free using the link.

4. INTRODUCTION TO GENERATIVE AI BY GOOGLE

Google has launched the course of generative AI which is a very simple, 45-minute course that you can take and learn the basics of Generative AI.

After the advent of ChatGPT, there is a huge rise in the number of Generative AI applications and this industry is blowing up like crazy.

If you want to get into it and take the opportunity then you need to learn about Generative AI.

What is Generative AI, how do you build AI apps, how do you get started, and that is why this course by Google is a great starting point.

Google has launched a 9-course series and this is the first among them, enroll for it and later check out other courses as well, and learn much more about how can you build these LLMS etc.

If you want to enroll just enroll using the link. 

5.NO CODE AND LOW CODE

NO CODE LOW CODE is a new movement taking shape where in you don’t need to use coding languages, you just need to know what you want to make and you can do it by dragging and dropping or just using basic pseudo-code to create what you want.

Today you can find many no-code tools like webflow, framer, carrd, and Bubble, and using these tools you can create amazing websites from scratch without learning coding.

An amazing business idea that you can implement is to go to Google Maps and look at the businesses around you like restaurants, malls etc. and look at their websites and try to create a website for them and then show them that this is a website that I created for you using no-code tools and tell them you can use this website and charge a small amount of money for that.

It is an amazing idea for you to generate extra income on the side.

To learn webflow there is a course created by Webflow itself, called “Webflow 101” which is on their website itself, where you can learn the basics of building websites from building user interfaces from scratch.

If you want to enroll link is given, go and check out.

Conclusion:

These were the 5 courses every person should take in 2025 for completely free. If you have any questions let us know in the comment section.

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