How to receive Financial Aid on Coursera to Get Paid Course for Free in 2-Easy Steps?

Step-by-step process to get you closer to your dream career 😍

Written by Vaibhav Desai

Coursera is an American massive open online course (MOOC) provider founded in 2012 by two Stanford university professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. The platform works with Universities and other platforms to offer online courses, certificates, and degrees across a variety of subjects.

The course offerings on the platform are for a large part free, i.e, if you take a course with only the purpose of learning and accessing the course materials you won’t be charged anything. But, if you also need a course completion certificate from the University/Institution offering the course and Coursera, you will need to pay the course fees.

Note: The completion certificate is a digital certificate provided by Coursera which is easily shareable and contains credentials wherein the certificate viewer can testify that the claimant has actually taken the course.

However, Coursera has a provision wherein the learner who requires a course completion certificate but could not afford to pay for it can opt for Financial Aid.