[2026] 1300+ Free SWAYAM + NPTEL Courses

Swayam Courses

Swayam is India’s national online course platform, designed to support the country’s National Education Policy, which entails improving access to quality education in India.

At Class Central, we’ve been paying attention to Swayam since the very beginning. It launched in beta in 2016, and has now reached over 61 million enrollments with over 6.2 million certificates issued. It’s been growing rather fast.

Swayam offers courses in a wide variety of disciplines, including from prestigious institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Central Universities.

In this article, I’ve compiled the over 1,300 courses currently open for registration on Swayam.

Platform & Offering

Swayam was first announced in August 2014 and launched in beta August 2016.

In July 2019, Swayam’s homepage and course catalog were revamped, among others to include all courses offered by NPTEL, a joint initiative of some of India’s most prominent engineering institutions.

All Swayam courses can be taken for free. Students can choose to pay a small fee (about $15) to sit a proctored exam in an exam center in India to earn a certificate of completion.

These certificates can be used by students in India to earn academic credit. Indeed, universities can earmark Swayam courses as credit-eligible. If you’d like to know Swayam’s role in India’s higher education, head to our previous article: In India, MOOCs Are Now Part of the Education System.

In 2020, Indian universities also started offering online degrees. Class Central has compiled a list: 2000+ UGC Approved Online Degrees from India’s Top Universities.

Finally, students in India may also complete part of their degree online via Swayam. Since 2021, students may earn up to 40% of the academic credit required for graduation by taking relevant courses on Swayam.

My Experience

The certificate of completion for my Swayam database course
The certificate of completion for my Swayam database management course

I personally completed several courses on Swayam, including an NPTEL course during the last semester of my master’s degree in computer science (specialization in AI) at the Central University of Rajasthan, India.

I paid a small extra fee (less than $2) to receive my certificate by mail. Paper certificates have been discontinued, but students can still obtain virtual certificates that afford the same privileges. You can see one of mine above.

I joined the Class Central engineering team in April 2019, and part of my job is to make sure that Class Central’s catalog of 250k courses is up-to-date. This means that I develop and maintain scrapers that collect course information from different providers.

I am happy to say that we list all Swayam courses. There are over 1,300 courses open for enrollment on Swayam right now. You can find the full list below. If you want to be kept in the loop about the platform’s new courses, visit the Swayam page and click the Follow button.

Subjects

Below is a list of all Swayam courses broken down by subject. Click on a subject to jump to the corresponding courses:

More Courses

If you don’t find what you need in the course list below, browse Class Central‘s catalog of 250k courses or visit our thematic collections:

You can find all the Class Central free certificate articles here.


Humanities (252)

Art & Design (31)

Social Sciences (186)

Business (209)

Information Security (InfoSec) (7)

Personal Development (53)

Education & Teaching (57)

Data Science (18)

Science (174)

Programming (47)

Health & Medicine (46)

Engineering (109)

Computer Science (65)

Artificial Intelligence (29)

Mathematics (45)

Others (27)

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