Up to 80% offFinancial AidNeeds an application
edX for free or cheap.
edX Financial Assistance cuts the verified-certificate fee by up to 80%. You learn for free on the audit track either way; this makes the certificate cheap.
✅ Covers
- Most regular courses on the verified track
🚫 Doesn't cover
- Professional Education and Executive Education courses
- Boot Camps
- Courses past their upgrade deadline
How to do it
- 1
Enroll in the course on the free audit track.
- 2
Open the Financial Assistance application and pick that course from the list. One course at a time.
- 3
Tick the declarations (paying the fee would be a hardship, you'll work to finish) and submit.
- 4
Wait for the email. edX says about a week, sometimes longer.
- 5
Apply the discount code at checkout to upgrade to the verified track before the deadline.
⚠️ Watch out
- Maximum 5 approvals in any 12 months. Spend them on courses you'll actually finish.
- The discount only works for the course it was granted for.
- Apply before the course's upgrade deadline, or the code is useless.
Golden rules
Five rules that keep you safe.
- 1Only use official platform pages. Never give your password to any "free course" site.
- 2Be honest on every form. These are honor-code declarations, and false info can get your account blocked.
- 3Write answers in your own words. Copied answers get rejected.
- 4One course at a time. Finish it, then apply for the next.
- 5Set reminders for deadlines (180 days on Coursera, trial end dates).