NextGenU.org

Free Education for Anyone, Anywhere

Learners from every country and territory have accessed our courses for free!

We support over 650,000 learners globally!

We increase the sustainability of universities worldwide! NextGenU.org's learners are from over 3,500 educational institutions.

Over half of medical schools in the USA have learners enrolled at NextGenU.org

Our funders and partners include the CDC, Harvard, NATO, Stanford, and the WHO.

Many learning communities adopt NextGenU.org materials, and we have the privilege of assisting professors from around the world as they adapt the courses to their students’ unique learning environments. NextGenU.org provides quality courses that other learning communities build upon, decreasing costs for students and learning communities with the goal of increasing the numbers of physicians and other health workers and contributing to improved learning and health equity for all

Making education globally accessible helps make the world a healthier place.

Dr. Erica Frank, had a vision to democratize education, starting in health education. To improve the health of humanity and the planet, she founded the Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health and then, launched NextGenU.org, a platform to educate the world.

Our courses are cost-free, advertising-free, barrier-free and carbon-free, and competency-based.

NextGenU.org’s expertly created learning materials in medicine, nursing, public and global health, humanitarian response, and math and science create opportunities for learners everywhere and reduce bottlenecks in preparing healthcare workers. Our subject matter experts, curriculum developers, and instructional designers, alongside the millions of experts who have generously shared their learning resources online, are providing this unprecedented opportunity for globally transforming education.

“They have sustainably and permanently transformed education, with the opportunity to supply millions of well-trained physicians, nurses, public health workers, and other professionals to the world.”

“The World Health Organization was not only the first to fund NextGenU.org’s free learning platform, but one of its first users. The WHO is proud to be a partner of the Master’s in Public Health, an extraordinary innovation that promotes global equity and diversity in health and education.”

"We are honored to work with NextGenU.org in being the first University to use this outstanding and freely-available curriculum, thanks to NextGenU.org’s unique success in making high-quality health sciences education globally available with its partners."