In this article, we’ve compiled over 300 online courses offered by the 60 best universities in the world for studying math.

We did so by combining popular university rankings to identify the best institutions, and then using the Class Central database to find all their math online courses.

Methodology

I built the list following the same data-driven approach used to build the list of computer science courses from the top CS universities.

First, I identified the leading world university rankings. Since I was specifically interested in math, I looked at their latest rankings of the best universities for studying math (or closest superset). Here are the rankings I ended up using:

Then, we crawled and scraped each ranking.

Now that I had some data, I used Jupyter with Python to process it. I combined the three rankings into one by averaging the position of each university in each ranking. Then, I filtered out the universities that didn’t offer online courses, and limited the list to the top 60 institutions.

For the latest update of this article, Suparn used the same sources and methodology to find the top 60 universities offering online math courses.

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Combined ranking: top 10 universities for studying mathematics in 2024

As you can see in the image above, I found that the top three math institutions are:

  1. Harvard

  2. MIT

  3. Stanford

Finally, we used the Class Central database, with its 250K online courses, to find all the math courses offered by the universities in the ranking.

The end result is a list of more than 300 online courses offered by 60 best universities in the world for studying math in 2025.

While processing the data, I noticed something interesting: 59 of the top 60 universities offer online courses, a lot more than I would have guessed. The world’s top institutions are very prolific creators of online courses.

Stats

  • Enrollments range from 21 to over 13 million. There are 8 courses with over 1 million enrollments

  • Altogether, the courses in this list have over 52 million enrollments, with an average of over 296 thousand enrollments

  • 222 courses are free and 98 are paid

  • 291 courses are in English, 19 Chinese, 7 French, and 1 each in Spanish, German, Korean.

  • Together, they account for 2,118 reviews at Class Central, with an average of 28 reviews

  • Average Rating 4.51 out of 5.0

  • 80 courses are beginner level, 57 are intermediate level, and 11 are advanced level.


General Mathematics (45)

Linear Algebra (32)

Differential Equations (12)

Statistics & Probability (54)

Calculus (30)

Mathematical Modeling (9)

Convex Optimization (17)

Probability Theory (8)

Others (113)

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With over 300 courses to pick from, we hope you find something you like. But if these aren’t enough, check out Class Central’s catalog of 250K online courses or our thematic collections: