February 20, 2007 3:01 PM

Get ahead: Yale on $0 a day
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 3:01 PM

Want to get an Ivy League education without having to negotiate the near-impossible admissions gauntlet or pay those outrageous tuitions?

Well, amazingly, your dream is coming true. As CareerJournal reports, there is an increasing number of institutions of higher learning, MIT and Yale among them, offering their courses for free - albeit virtually:

Following the lead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other highly competitive schools, more institutions are posting online everything from lecture notes to sample tests, and even making audio and video files of actual lectures publicly available. The sites attract anywhere from thousands to more than one million unique visitors each month.
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Yale University. . .has announced it will produce digital videos of undergraduate lecture classes and make them available free to the public. This academic year, it is taping seven classes -- from Introduction to the Old Testament to Fundamentals of Physics -- to be posted online this fall.

At this point, no degree is attached. But who knows what the future might hold.

Learn more.