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Curated, up-to-date online courses and certifications from Coursera, Udemy, edX, LinkedIn Learning, Google, HubSpot and Microsoft — reviewed by the Kurums editorial team.
Microsoft Learn paths and Applied Skills are free; fundamentals exams (AZ-900, AI-900, DP-900, SC-900, MS-900, PL-900) cost $99 but are routinely free with Virtual Training Day vouchers. The complete 2026 guide to free Microsoft credentials, with study hours and what employers value.
Inbound, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, SEO, Email, Social Media, Inbound Sales, RevOps, Marketing Hub Software, Reporting, Sales Software and AI for Marketing: the 12 free HubSpot Academy certifications worth earning in 2026, ranked by value.
Google Ads, GA4, Skillshop, Google Cloud Skills Boost badges, Google for Education and the Career Certificate scholarships: every Google credential that is free in 2026, plus the $49/month certificates and how to get those free too.
IBM’s Product Manager Professional Certificate, Maryland’s specialization, Product School, Reforge, Pragmatic Institute, Udemy’s Become a Product Manager and LinkedIn Learning compared for 2026 — costs from $15 to $4,000 and the roles each unlocks.
Y Combinator’s free Startup School, Wharton’s Entrepreneurship specialization, MIT’s Entrepreneurship 101, Maryland’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford lectures and Udemy’s Lean Startup course compared for founders in 2026 — costs, hours, what each teaches.
Wharton Business Foundations, HBS Online CORe, edX MicroMasters, Illinois’ iMBA-stackable specializations and other business programs compared as MBA alternatives in 2026 — with costs from $200 to $2,500 and credit pathways.
AZ-900, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Google Cloud Digital Leader — plus the associate-level next steps — compared for 2026 with exam fees, free vendor study paths and the best Coursera and Udemy prep courses.
Google AI Essentials, DeepLearning.AI’s Generative AI for Everyone, Vanderbilt’s Prompt Engineering, Microsoft’s AI-900 path, IBM’s Generative AI certificate and Udemy’s ChatGPT course compared for 2026 — for managers, not engineers.
Google’s two data analytics certificates, IBM Data Analyst, Microsoft’s Power BI Data Analyst, Duke’s Excel-to-MySQL specialization and Udemy’s SQL and Python bootcamps compared for 2026 — with costs, hours and who each suits.
Google’s Project Management certificate, PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, Professional Scrum Master, IBM’s Project Manager certificate and Udemy PMP prep compared for 2026 — what each costs, how long it takes and who it suits.
Michigan’s Leading People and Teams, HEC Paris’s Inspirational Leadership, Harvard Online’s Leadership Principles, edX and Udemy picks: the eight leadership and management courses worth your time and money in 2026.
SHRM-CP, aPHR and PHR, HRCI’s Human Resource Associate certificate on Coursera, Minnesota’s HR Management specialization, people analytics and free options: the HR credentials worth earning online in 2026.
