279 real courses. Zero dollars. No applications, no tuition, no deadlines, no debt.
Get Paid to Learn
Some Starvard courses come with cash challenges attached. We have hundreds of dollars set aside right now to reward students who do the work and show it: finish the challenge, upload your proof, get paid.
See the challenges →First up: the 99 Days of Piano Challenge, with a $100 prize pool shared between everyone who finishes.
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Three doors, three obsessions. AI, games, and building a business: the courses students actually finish.
The game course · $10 bounty inside
You describe the game. The AI builds it. You steer, tune, and ship it. Build a game, get $10. That is the whole deal: a finished, playable game earns you ten dollars, no coding experience needed.
Start building your game >Learn from the best
Full university courses, curated into proper Starvard hubs: lessons in order, one click each.
Psychology
Paul Bloom, Robert Sapolsky, John Gabrieli, and Hank Green. Four full courses.
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Philosophy
Michael Sandel on justice, Shelly Kagan on death, and Crash Course to warm up.
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Computer Science
Mehr Sahami's legendary CS106A, MIT's 6.0001, and Carrie Anne Philbin's Crash Course.
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Starvard Research
Sixty-two pages and more than 120 figures, every one of them sourced and footnoted: the five-day explosion of ChatGPT, the second rocket rising beside it, the compute and money race underneath both, and the 2.2 billion people AI has not reached yet. We built the deepest public account of this moment we could, and we are proud of it. Like everything at Starvard, it is free.
New on campus
Parachute in over the quad, then walk it all: Main Hall, the library, the innovation labs, the VR dome. The full university, explorable right in your browser.
Jump in and explore >The catalog
Starvard is organized like a real university, because it is one. Pick a topic, wander its halls, take anything you like. There are no prerequisites and no one will ever check.
20 courses · BUS
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
23 courses · TEC
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 · Vibe Coding Video Games: with a $10 bounty · Computer Science hub: Stanford and MIT on video · and 17 more
32 courses · MND
Understand your head. It comes with you everywhere.
Psychology 101 · Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness · Anxiety and Calm 101 · Meditation 101 · Habits 101 · Psychology hub: Yale, Stanford and MIT on video · Philosophy hub: Harvard and Yale on video · and 23 more
14 courses · CAR
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
6 courses · HLT
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
10 courses · HOM
Fix it, grow it, cook it, then go outside.
Cooking 101 · Gardening 101 · DIY Home Repair 101 · Camping 101 · Fishing 101 · and 5 more
9 courses · ART
Make things. Look up. Ask the big questions.
Graphic Design 101 · Drawing 101 · Photography 101 · Guitar 101 · Learn Piano · and 4 more
3 courses · LNG
Say hello like you mean it, in three languages.
8 courses · SOC
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
The Masters Library
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 the Masters Library, beautiful on a phone, many with free audio. Fifty-four classics are on the shelf today, and the shelf is growing to one hundred.
Athens · 399 BC
He wrote nothing and taught everyone. Meet him in Plato's Dialogues, where the questions are still sharper than most answers.
Read The Republic >
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.
Read the Ethics >
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.
Read Meditations >
China · 551 BC
The Analects: two thousand five hundred years of students have started here, with respect, ritual, and decency as a curriculum.
Read the Analects >
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.
Read Hamlet >
England · 1775
The funniest serious writer in English. Pride and Prejudice is on the shelf today, with full audio.
Read Pride and Prejudice >
Also on the shelf: Homer · Dante · Seneca · Epictetus · Laozi · Montaigne · Frederick Douglass · Charles Dickens · Mark Twain · Thoreau · Melville
STARVARD
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Starvard Radio
Book club
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Sally 9:41 PM
The sorting hat put me in Harbor House. We read out on the green.
Marty 9:42 PM
Radio night at 8. Frankenstein, chapter 4. Bring cocoa.
Harsh 9:43 PM
House points are updated. Harbor leads by twelve.
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The Commons
Courses are half of college. The people are the other half. Join and the sorting hat places you in one of four fraternities: earn house points, compete with your house, and show up for radio nights, read-alongs, and a book club that actually finishes the book.
Join the Discord >Field notes
Four courses, introduced by the question they answer.
FIELD NOTE 01MIND & LIFE
Spot the assumptions hiding in plain sight, and give your first answer a second thought.
FIELD NOTE 02MIND & LIFE
A friendly tour of how minds actually work, from Yale's lecture hall to your own head.
FIELD NOTE 03MIND & LIFE
Shrink the first step until you cannot talk yourself out of it, then let the streak do the rest.
FIELD NOTE 04ARTS & WONDER
A character, a want, and something in the way. Learn to build all three on purpose.
Go global
The same university, in your own words. Pick a language in the header of any page, or start here.
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