Is Open University courses free?

An Open University degree is accredited in the same way as degrees from universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Sunderland, Durham etc. It is as valid as any.

UNDERGRADUATE

The Open degree is the most popular qualification at the university . Around 20,000 students are enrolled in this programme, which makes the Open University the UK’s largest multidisciplinary education provider. As of 2018, over 236,000 alumni have graduated with an Open degree.

The OU provides around 5% of its formal course materials as free open educational content every year on OpenLearn . OpenLearn includes over 1,000 free courses derived from the OU’s curriculum and dozens of specially commissioned. Learners can filter by subject, skills for life, skills for study or search by any term.