Who is GetSmarter?GetSmarter, a brand of 2U, Inc., is a digital education company that partners with the world's leading universities to select, design and deliver premium online short courses with a data-driven focus on learning gain. Technology meets academic rigour in our people-mediated model which enables lifelong learners across the globe to obtain industry-relevant skills that are certified by the world’s most reputable academic institutions.
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Earn a premier certificate from the university as powerful proof of your new competencies and use it to differentiate yourself and get recognised in the job market.
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UCT Graduate School of Business
Join over 50,000 students globally, who have already benefitted from the opportunity to:
Earn a premier certificate from the university as powerful proof of your new competencies and use it to differentiate yourself and get recognised in the job market.
Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience that consistently achieves a 90%+ course completion rate.
Gain verifiable and relevant competencies through a career-focused curriculum that achieves specific learning outcomes and skill gains.
Rated as Africa’s top business school, the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is pioneering a new business school model based on the emerging market. The GSB prides itself on academic excellence, societal relevance, and thought leadership. Coupled with its online short course offerings, it attempts to instill in its students a new way of thinking about business.
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Learn online with MIT CSAIL
The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is committed to pioneering new approaches to computing that will bring about positive changes in the way people around the globe live, play, and work. The online short courses delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter support MIT CSAIL in reaching, inspiring, and educating innovators around the globe.
Learn online with Harvard's Derek Bok Center
The mission of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is to enhance the quality of teaching and learning across the world, by fostering a culture of experimentation, innovation, and evidence-based practices. Harvard’s Bok Center makes this possible through a diverse range of initiatives and learning opportunities through in-person learning, and online short courses.
Learn online with LSE
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is the world’s leading dedicated social science university, established in 1895 with the founding aim to understand the causes of things for the betterment of society. Over a century of experience, the School has built expertise in delivering this mission through applied, compact learning. LSE's online certificate courses allow the School to open up its state of the art research to the largest possible audience in a relevant and practical way.
Learn online with Rice University
Rice University is consistently ranked among the U.S. top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Online short courses are run through The Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, a school that consistently challenges learners, embraces a diverse student body, and champions a unique teaching and learning culture that prides itself on providing a superior education for practical skills applicable to real-world challenges.
Learn online with the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
The MIT School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) believes that humanity’s toughest problems and their solutions exist in the same space: between people and their environment. Since the opening of the Department of Architecture in 1868, MIT SA+P has been home to those who explore the human landscape to discover—and deliver—better futures. The online courses delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter embrace a spirit of interdisciplinary exploration and fuel MIT’s drive for meaningful progress.
Learn online with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford offers high-touch, supported, and interactive online programmes, designed specifically for busy working professionals. These digital programmes allow business leaders, decision-makers, and professionals across the globe to prepare for an ever-changing and uncertain future online and in their own time. Learning from industry experts, and interacting with an international cohort of like minded professionals, you’ll expand your knowledge, global network and perspective – in a matter of weeks.
Learn online with the University of Cape Town (UCT)
Founded in 1829, UCT has a proud tradition of academic excellence and effecting social change and development through its pioneering scholarship, faculty and students. UCT’s reputation for excellence is underpinned by its distinctive research, led by its distinguished faculty, many of whom are world-leaders in their field. UCT has amplified their reach by offering online short courses for the global audience.
Learn online with the UCT Graduate School of Business
Rated as Africa’s top business school, the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is pioneering a new business school model based on the emerging market. The GSB prides itself on academic excellence, societal relevance, and thought leadership. Coupled with its online short course offerings, it attempts to instill in its students a new way of thinking about business.
Learn online with the University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand is an internationally recognised institution, situated in Johannesburg. Wits is highly distinguished in the fields of research, academic standards and its commitment to social justice, and wished to effect meaningful change and create a bright future for generations to come. Through utilising online short courses, Wits is able to achieve this on a global scale.
Learn online with the University of Stellenbosch Business School
The University of Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development (USB-ED) is the private executive development company of Stellenbosch University. Their mission is to create a learning space to enable – through uniquely designed interventions, such as online short courses, and applied research – a network of globally responsible leaders to forge a sustainable future.
Learn online with Harvard's VPAL
Harvard University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) offers faculty and students support and services to create highest-quality 21st century learning and research environment on campus, through online short courses, and beyond.
Learn online with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is an institution within the University of Cambridge. Its mission is to empower individuals and organisations to take the lead in tackling critical global challenges. Offering supported, interactive online short courses helps CISL take this knowledge and purpose to a global audience.
Learn online with the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies serves as the center of innovative lifelong learning at the University of Chicago — one of the world’s premier academic and research institutions. UChicago’s impressive research portfolio and its reputation for being a health research thought-leader, make it the ideal institution for learning through their online short courses.