Business & Money
20 courses
Start something, grow something, and keep what you earn.
Business 101: How a Kid Made a Million Dollars With Lemonade · Business 101: The Online Business Edition · Startups 101 · Marketing 101 · Sales 101 · and 15 more
A free university. Open to everyone, everywhere.
Starvard.
113 real courses. Zero dollars. No applications, no tuition, no deadlines, no debt. One of the largest free universities on the internet, and class is always in session.
113
full courses, live now
$0
tuition. Forever. For everyone.
9
schools, from AI to sailing
24/7
always open. No semesters.
The front door
New here? Start with these five.
Every university has a first day. Ours takes about ten minutes. These five courses are where most students begin: money, machines, happiness, the fine print, and the habits that hold it all together.
The Money Index Card: All of Personal Finance on One Card · Artificial Intelligence 101 · Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness · Law 101: Read Before You Sign · Habits 101
The catalog
Nine schools. One campus.
Starvard is organized like a real university, because it is one. Pick a school, wander its halls, take anything you like. There are no prerequisites and no one will ever check.
Technology & AI
19 courses
The machines are here. Learn to drive them.
Artificial Intelligence 101 · AI Agents: Your First $10,000 · AI Prompting 101 · Machine Learning 101 · Python 101 · and 14 more
Mind & Life
24 courses
Understand your head. It comes with you everywhere.
Psychology 101 · Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness · Anxiety and Calm 101 · Meditation 101 · Habits 101 · and 19 more
Career & Craft
14 courses
Get the job, do the job beautifully, get the next one.
Career Growth 101 · Resumes and LinkedIn 101 · Job Interviews 101 · Networking 101 · Remote Work 101 · and 9 more
Health & Body
6 courses
Simple rules, honestly taught, for the body you live in.
Health 101: Simple Rules for a Healthy Body · Nutrition 101 · Strength and Fitness 101 · Running 101 · Yoga 101 · and 1 more
Home & Outdoors
10 courses
Fix it, grow it, cook it, then go outside.
Cooking 101 · Gardening 101 · DIY Home Repair 101 · Camping 101 · Fishing 101 · and 5 more
Arts & Wonder
9 courses
Make things. Look up. Ask the big questions.
Graphic Design 101 · Drawing 101 · Photography 101 · Guitar 101 · Learn Piano · and 4 more
Languages
3 courses
Say hello like you mean it, in three languages.
Society & Play
8 courses
How we live together, and how we play together.
Law 101: Read Before You Sign · Civics and Politics 101 · American History 101 · Parenting 101 · Sailing 101 · and 3 more
Most loved
Featured courses. The ones students write home about.
Featured course
AI Agents: Your First $10,000
The most wanted skill on the internet, taught from zero. Build agents that work while you sleep.
Featured course
The Money Index Card
All of personal finance on one index card. The famous lesson, the whole course, free.
Featured course
Law 101: Read Before You Sign
Contracts, leases, and the fine print, translated into plain English before it costs you.
Featured course
Positive Psychology
The science of happiness, taught plainly: what actually makes people flourish, and what does not.
Featured course
Health 101
Simple rules for a healthy body. No fads, no fear, no supplements to buy.
Featured course
Universe Building 101
Our most unusual elective: how to build a world people want to live in. Taught by Dave Dlaney.
The Masters Library
Taught by the Masters. The greatest teachers who ever lived.
Every expensive university on Earth builds its courses on the same shelf of books. At Starvard, the shelf itself is free. Read the originals in our Clear Reader, beautiful on a phone, with free audio for every book. The first ten classics are on the shelf today. One hundred are coming.
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Socrates
Athens · 399 BC
He wrote nothing and taught everyone. Meet him in Plato's Dialogues, where the questions are still sharper than most answers.
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Aristotle
Greece · 384 BC
The tutor of Alexander and the inventor of thinking clearly. Start with the Ethics: how to live well, argued like a science.
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Marcus Aurelius
Rome · AD 121
An emperor who wrote himself reminders to be kind. Meditations is the most honest self-help book ever written, and he never meant to publish it.
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Confucius
China · 551 BC
The Analects: two thousand five hundred years of students have started here, with respect, ritual, and decency as a curriculum.
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Shakespeare
England · 1564
Every human feeling, in the best sentences ever built. The plays and sonnets, free, the way his own audience heard them: standing up and spellbound.
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Jane Austen
England · 1775
The funniest serious writer in English. Pride and Prejudice is on the shelf today, with audio, in the Clear Reader.
Also on the shelf: Homer · Dante · Seneca · Epictetus · Laozi · Montaigne · Frederick Douglass · Charles Dickens · Mark Twain · Thoreau · Melville
Admissions
How it works. Three steps. Zero gatekeepers.
Other universities ask for essays, transcripts, and four years of your income. We ask for your curiosity. That is the whole application.
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Pick a course
Browse the nine schools or the full catalog below. If it sounds interesting, it is for you. That is the entire admissions standard.
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Learn at your pace
Every course is written to be finished, not just started. Read it in an evening, or take a year. The campus never closes and nobody takes attendance.
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Take another one
There are 113. Students rarely stop at one, and since tuition is zero, the only cost of a second degree is a few more evenings.
Why free
Education is a kindness. So we give it away.
Knowledge used to be locked behind gates, and the gates charged rent. Starvard exists because we think a person who wants to learn should simply be allowed to. Every course here is written carefully, taught plainly, and priced at zero, permanently. No ads in the classroom. No upsell at graduation. Just the learning.
Honest answers
Questions. Asked straight, answered straight.
Is it really free?
Yes. All 113 courses, the whole catalog, forever. There is no premium tier, no trial that expires, and no credit card form hiding anywhere. Free means free.
Do I need to apply or sign up?
No. There is no application, no account, and no admissions office to impress. Click a course and begin. You are already accepted. You were accepted before you arrived.
Is Starvard accredited? Will I get a degree?
No, and we will never pretend otherwise. Starvard is a free university for learning, not a credential mill. You will not leave with a diploma. You will leave knowing how taxes, contracts, code, and your own mind work. We think that trade favors you.
Who writes the courses?
The Starvard faculty at The Studio, the team behind E2. Every course is written to be clear, kind, and finishable, the way we would want to be taught. One elective, Universe Building 101, is taught by our founder, Dave Dlaney. Comedy 101 is taught by Marty, who insisted on academic freedom.
Why 101 for everything?
Because everybody starts somewhere, and the beginning is the most important part. Master the 101s and the rest of any subject gets dramatically easier. Also, honestly, it keeps the catalog tidy.
The full catalog
All 113 courses. A to Z.
Every course at Starvard, listed in full. By school: Business & Money (20) · Technology & AI (19) · Mind & Life (24) · Career & Craft (14) · Health & Body (6) · Home & Outdoors (10) · Arts & Wonder (9) · Languages (3) · Society & Play (8)
Acting 101 · AI Agents: Your First $10,000 · AI Prompting 101 · American History 101 · Anxiety and Calm 101 · Artificial Intelligence 101 · Astronomy 101 · Boundaries 101: Protect Your Peace · Budgeting 101 · Business 101: How a Kid Made a Million Dollars With Lemonade · Business 101: The Online Business Edition · Camping 101 · Career Growth 101 · Cars 101 · Chess 101 · Civics and Politics 101 · Cloud Computing 101 · Coffee 101 · Comedy 101 with Marty · Communication 101 · Conflict Resolution 101 · Cooking 101 · Copywriting 101 · Credit and Debt 101 · Critical Thinking 101 · Crypto 101 · Cybersecurity 101 · Data Analysis 101 · Dating 101 · DIY Home Repair 101 · Drawing 101 · E-commerce 101 · Economics 101 · Emotional Intelligence 101 · Estate Planning and Wills 101 · Everyday Math 101 · Excel and Spreadsheets 101 · First Aid 101 · Fishing 101 · Focus and Deep Work 101 · Freelancing 101 · French 101 · Friendship 101 · Gardening 101 · German 101 · Get Customers 101: Customers Without the Sleaze · Golf 101 · Graphic Design 101 · Guitar 101 · Habits 101 · Health 101: Simple Rules for a Healthy Body · Hiking 101 · Home Buying 101 · Insurance 101 · Investing 101 · Job Interviews 101 · Journalism 101 · Law 101: Read Before You Sign · Leadership 101 · Learn Piano · Learning How to Learn 101 · Machine Learning 101 · Marketing 101 · Meditation 101 · Memory 101 · Music Production 101 · Negotiation 101 · Networking 101 · No-Code and Automation 101 · Nutrition 101 · Parenting 101 · Persuasion 101 · Philosophy 101 · Photography 101 · Podcasting 101 · Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness · Project Management 101 · Psychology 101 · Public Speaking 101 · Python 101 · Real Estate 101 · Relationships 101 · Remote Work 101 · Research 101 · Resumes and LinkedIn 101 · Retirement 101 · Running 101 · Sailing 101 · Sales 101 · Screenwriting 101 · SEO 101 · Skiing 101 · Sleep 101 · Social Media 101 · Social Skills 101 · Spanish 101 · Startups 101 · Statistics 101 · Stoicism 101 · Storytelling 101 · Strength and Fitness 101 · Taxes 101 · Tennis 101 · The Money Index Card: All of Personal Finance on One Card · Time Management 101 · Travel Hacking 101 · Universe Building 101: Taught by Dave Dlaney · Video Editing 101 · Web Development 101 · Wine 101 · Writing 101 · Yoga 101 · YouTube 101
Only at Starvard
The only free university that plays like a game.
School should feel like progress, not paperwork. So Starvard is gamified, the first free university built this way from the ground up.
Starvard Points
Every lesson you finish, every course you complete, every master you read earns points. Your learning adds up to something you can see, and watching it grow is half the fun.
Cartoon Mode
One tap flips any book in the Masters Library into an illustrated cartoon edition. Same great words, drawn world. Frankenstein was never this friendly.
No catch, ever
Points cost nothing and unlock nothing paid, because there is nothing paid. No premium tier, no lives to refill, no ads between levels. The game is just the joy of learning, keeping score.
Class is in session.
It always is.