Melsetter College is a tuition-free online college in business, finance, accounting, computing and AI, from Certificate III to a Master's. Real university lectures, Harvard-style cases, AI-marked timed exams and dissertations, and certificates and transcripts you can put on your CV. Built to work without data or Wi-Fi.
First intake open. Learner #1 already enrolled.
Four streams, mapped to the Australian AQF, the UK RQF and the European EQF. Every program runs at least one full year, including every Master's. No level is a weekend course. Bachelor's and Master's programs admit by application; certificates and diplomas are open enrolment.
The entry rung. Where every learner starts, including the college's own founder.
Supervisor-level skills. You stop doing the work and start running the rota.
The manager's toolkit: budgets, people, projects, compliance.
Senior management. Strategy, risk, and leading through a crisis.
The full degree, assembled from real university lectures.
The flagship, an intensive one-year Master's taught through cases, not slides.
Money from first principles, taught the way analysts actually use it.
Valuation, portfolio thinking and risk, at analyst level.
The full finance degree, from microeconomics to derivatives.
An intensive one-year graduate finance program for people who already work with money.
Books, statements and taxes, from the first entry to the trial balance.
Management accounting, audit thinking and company records.
The full professional degree for the numbers people.
Free preparation for all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst exams, the world's investment benchmark: ethics, quantitative methods, financial reporting, equity, fixed income, derivatives, portfolio management. The CFA exams themselves are set and charged by the CFA Institute, an outside body, and those fees are theirs; everything Melsetter College teaches you to pass them is free, on the same rigor the Institute expects. The Diploma and BSc in this stream follow the same syllabus, so your coursework is CFA-grade by design.
Prep free · CFA Institute exam fees are separate and outside the collegeFree preparation aligned to the ACCA syllabus, from Applied Knowledge through Applied Skills: accountant in business, management accounting, financial accounting, corporate and business law, performance management, taxation, financial reporting, audit and assurance, financial management. ACCA exams and registration are set and charged by ACCA, an outside body; Melsetter College's preparation and its Diploma and BSc syllabus are free, and they cover the same ground.
Prep free · ACCA exam fees are separate and outside the collegeHow machines actually work, from logic gates to networks.
Build and fix real systems: hardware, OS and networks together.
The full engineering degree, from silicon to systems.
Code from day one: Python, the web and how software gets built.
Data structures, full-stack builds and shipping real apps.
The full software degree for people who want to build products.
Marketing that runs on a phone and a data bundle.
Paid ads, brands and the numbers behind the posts.
AI literacy for every level: use it properly, not just chat with it.
From using AI to building with it.
The full AI degree: models, data and the systems around them.
An intensive one-year graduate program in building intelligent systems.
Certificates and diplomas are open enrolment: pick one and start. Bachelor's and Master's programs are different: you apply, and the AI admissions office reviews your file and admits you before you can start.
Send your application with your details and whatever you already have: school results, a prior certificate, work experience. No application fee, ever.
The AI admissions office reads your file against the published entry standard for the level you asked for, and issues its decision with reasons.
Admitted applicants get an admission letter with their learner number and intake date. Refused applicants get the reasons and what to strengthen, free to reapply.
Enrol with your learner number, get your module plan, and begin. Your first timed exam is scheduled from day one.
Free to apply. Send your details and documents; the AI admissions office reviews your file and your decision letter arrives by email within 24 hours.
Every module points to free lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare, Yale Open Courses and Stanford Graduate School of Business. The same material Ivy League students pay for.
Harvard-style case studies, written for Zimbabwe: real numbers, hard choices, no obvious right answer. Then argue your decision in a marked essay.
Proper timed exams, marked by an AI examiner against a published rubric. 70% to pass, at least 50% in every section. Fail and you restudy, then resit.
Degrees and Master's programs end in a supervised dissertation, AI-marked with human-set questions, defended in writing. Then your certificate and transcript are issued.
Every pass earns a certificate in the classic university style, and every program earns an official transcript with your module grades and GPA. The US$30 one-time fee covers your verified certificate and your transcript, delivered as PDFs with a verification code. Tuition itself stays US$0.
Sample shown. Your name, program and dates go on yours.
| Module | Credits | Grade | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIN 501 · Financial Records & Budgets | 12 | A | 4.0 |
| FIN 502 · Managing People & Performance | 12 | A | 4.0 |
| BUS 503 · Project Coordination | 12 | B+ | 3.3 |
| BUS 504 · Cross-Border Operations | 12 | A | 4.0 |
| BUS 505 · Case Essay Portfolio | 12 | A- | 3.7 |
Sample transcript shown. Yours lists your real modules and grades.
A bakery in Bulawayo sells 4,200 loaves a week at US$0.90, at a 22% gross margin. A second site in Gwanda needs US$6,500 in fit-out, adds US$780 a month in fixed costs, and projects 2,600 loaves a week at the same margin. Fuel to service the second site eats 3% of its revenue. The owner has US$4,000 in cash and a supplier offering 45-day credit on flour. Expand now, negotiate the credit line first, or wait six months?
Your task: take a position and defend it with the numbers.
Your freight firm must quote a Musina-to-Harare contract: 18 tonnes a month, a competitor quoted US$1,850. Your cost per trip is US$1,420 including fuel, border fees and the driver's bonus, but your truck is at 82% utilisation already. Quote to win at US$1,795, decline, or bid only for 10 tonnes?
Every program here is a working course: real university lecture videos, a case study in every module, notes you can keep, timed exams marked the moment you submit, essays read by the AI examiner, and a printable certificate when you finish. Progress saves on your device and works offline once loaded.
Open any program to start. Your learner number is issued the first time you enter.
Tuition is US$0 at every level, and applications are free. The one-time US$30 fee covers your verified certificate AND your official transcript, delivered as PDFs with verification codes. Nothing else is charged, ever.
Certificates and diplomas are open enrolment: pick one and start. Bachelor's and Master's programs require an application, and the AI admissions office reviews your file and admits you against the published entry standard for that level, with reasons either way.
Yes. Timed, once per module, marked by an AI examiner against a published rubric, 70% to pass with at least 50% in every section. Degrees and Master's programs also require a full dissertation, checked for plagiarism and defended in writing.
No program is shorter than one year. Certificates one year, diplomas 18 months, the Advanced Diploma two years, the degrees three years, and every Master's is an intensive one year.
Those charters are granted by outside bodies (the CFA Institute and ACCA) and their exams carry their own fees. Melsetter College prepares you for them for free, and our finance and accounting diplomas and degrees follow the same syllabus.
You can put your certificate, transcript and verified results on your CV and show them to employers. For roles or visas that require government-accredited qualifications, Melsetter's certificates are self-issued and we tell you that plainly; pair them with the free accredited routes we point you to where it counts.
No. Open the site once with data and it keeps working offline from then on. Notes and case briefs come as light PDFs, and every module tells you which lectures to stream when you next have Wi-Fi.