NPTEL

A government-backed consortium of the Indian Institutes of Technology and IISc. 800+ complete engineering courses, with free certification exams.

57 courses here1,805 hours of teaching3,323 lectures & chapters800+ in their full catalog

Every NPTEL course

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NPTELIntermediate

Deep Learning

IIT's complete deep learning course — from perceptrons to seq2seq.

30h60 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Fluid Mechanics

IIT Kharagpur's flagship — among the most-watched NPTEL courses ever.

56h58 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Electrical Machines I

Transformers and DC machines — the first half of the power world.

54h95 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

Every building stands on soil — the IITs' geotechnical engineering course.

51h57 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Real Analysis

Why calculus is true — the IITs' rigorous construction of the real numbers.

45h52 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Database Management System

The complete database course — ER diagrams to transactions.

41h81 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Strength of Materials

Why structures stand — stress, bending, and the margin of safety.

40h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Computer Graphics

How images on your screen are really made — the IITs' graphics course.

40h43 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Linear Algebra

The classic IIT Madras linear algebra course — vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, and the theorems every engineer and data scientist needs.

40h52 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Semiconductor Optoelectronics

IIT Delhi on light and semiconductors — LEDs, lasers, and photodetectors, from first principles up.

40h46 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Engineering Mechanics

The first course of every engineer — forces, bodies, and balance.

39h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Computer Architecture

The machine under the compiler — pipelines, caches, and cores.

38h41 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Probability and Statistics

Chance, done properly — the math every data scientist needs.

38h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Digital Image Processing

From pixels to perception — the IITs' classic image processing course.

38h40 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Theory of Computation

Automata, Turing machines, and what can never be computed.

36h70 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Heat Transfer

Conduction, convection, radiation — the thermal engineering trilogy.

36h61 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Digital Signal Processing

The mathematics inside every phone — DFT, FFT, and digital filters.

36h107 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Operations Management

The engines of business — inventory, scheduling, and lean systems.

36h41 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Quantum Mechanics

The IITs' complete quantum mechanics course — from the Schrödinger equation onward.

36h41 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Discrete Mathematics

The mathematics computer science runs on — logic to graph theory.

35h41 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Analog VLSI Design

The transistor-level craft — IIT Kanpur's complete analog chip design course.

35h64 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Genetic Engineering: Theory and Application

Editing the code of life — the theory and tools of genetic engineering, from the IITs.

34h42 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Programming in Java

The IITs' Java course — among the most-enrolled in NPTEL history.

33h61 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

An Introduction to Programming through C++

Modern C++ — classes, templates, and the STL, taught properly.

33h121 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Computer Networks and Internet Protocol

The internet, layer by layer — from the IITs' networking group.

33h61 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Thermodynamics

Energy, entropy, and the laws that rule every engine.

33h69 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

IIT Delhi's modern AI survey — search, RL, NLP, and vision in one arc.

32h99 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Machine Learning for Engineering and Science Applications

IIT Madras teaches machine learning to engineers and scientists — the same algorithms, taught for physical systems and scientific data.

32h106 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Foundations of Psychology: Concepts and Applications

IIT Guwahati's complete psychology foundations course — the science of mind and behavior, from neurons to social dynamics.

32h34 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Basic Electric Circuits

The starting line of electrical engineering — KVL to AC power.

31h61 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Organizational Behaviour

Why organizations behave as they do — motivation, teams, and leadership, studied scientifically.

31h60 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Financial Institutions and Markets

IIT Kharagpur on how money actually moves — banks, bond markets, equities, and the institutions that hold the system together.

31h61 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices

IISc Bangalore on the physics of the devices the modern world runs on — from band diagrams to transistors, taught properly.

31h60 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Compiler Design

How code becomes machine code — lexers to optimizers.

30h62 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Signals and Systems

The mathematics of everything that varies — audio to control.

30h103 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Control Systems

Making machines behave — stability, root locus, and feedback.

30h73 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Physical Chemistry

Chemistry as physics — thermodynamics, kinetics, and the quantum rules.

30h53 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Fundamentals of Power Electronics

Converters and inverters — the electronics inside solar and EVs.

29h97 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Software Engineering

Why software projects fail — and the discipline that prevents it.

28h60 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms using Python

The engine of IIT Madras's online BSc degree — Python to algorithms.

28h84 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Basics of Materials Engineering

Why materials do what they do — IIT Madras' complete first course in materials.

28h67 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Biochemistry

Life at the molecular scale — proteins, enzymes, and metabolism.

27h34 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Algorithms in Computational Biology and Sequence Analysis

The algorithms inside modern biology — taught at the Indian Institute of Science.

27h48 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Data Structures and Algorithms

The classic IIT Kharagpur DSA lectures — stacks to spanning trees.

25h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Introduction to Embedded System Design

The computers inside everything — microcontrollers, buses, and real-time design.

25h41 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Entrepreneurship

From idea to venture — the IIT playbook for starting things.

24h44 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Operations Research

The mathematics of decisions — linear programming, queues, and optimization.

24h41 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Introduction to C Programming

C from first principles — the language the IITs teach first.

23h60 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Organic Chemistry

Carbon's architecture — mechanisms over memorization, the IIT way.

22h53 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Introduction to Machine Learning

IIT Madras's classic ML survey — rigorous, examinable, free.

20h40 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

The Joy of Computing using Python

Python taught through games, puzzles, and real-world magic.

20h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Cloud Computing

Virtualization, IaaS, and the engineering of the cloud — from IIT Kharagpur.

20h40 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Operating System

What Linux is actually doing — processes to file systems.

20h50 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Marketing Management

Marketing as a discipline — segmentation, brands, and metrics.

19h37 lec

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NPTELIntroductory

Introduction to Cell Biology

IISER Pune on the fundamental unit of life — membranes, organelles, DNA, and the molecular machines inside every cell.

19h59 lec

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NPTELIntermediate

Data Mining

Finding structure in oceans of data — the IIT Kharagpur survey.

16h36 lec

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NPTELAdvanced

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Algorithms with the proofs kept in — the IIT Madras classic.

15h56 lec