Last update: 23/10/2025
Education drives prosperity amid an ever-changing job market. At Santander Open Academy, we give customers and non-customers of all ages the training they need for further growth and to become more employable and develop the professional skills that the job market is demanding most.
euros invested in 28 years
euros invested in 28 years
We offer courses by leading universities and institutions all over the world, free of charge. Check out our programmes on our global online platform.
Whether you’re a student, worker or don’t have any qualifications or work experience, Santander Open Academy offers a wide range of courses, content and scholarships for you to build up your career prospects.
In a digital world with economic and environmental issues, the job market is demanding the latest knowledge and skills that our global online platform can offer. Santander Open Academy has hundreds of course and scholarship postings every year. You don’t have to be a Santander customer or hold a degree.
We open application periods for courses and scholarships in the 11 countries where we operate. Each subsidiary also runs programmes that adapt to the needs of its communities.
We offer a wide range of educational programmes to meet people’s employability needs, with grants for higher education, travel, research and internships, plus free, admissions-based or open enrolment courses, as well as learning content.
Santander has been a stalwart of education, employability and entrepreneurship for over 28 years, investing over 2.4 billion euros and helping over 3.7 million people and companies. We were named in Fortune magazine’s 2025 “Change the World” list as one of the biggest contributors to making the world a better place.
Over 1,000 courses, materials and scholarships
Check out everything we have to offer to university students and people over 18 years of age on our Santander Open Academy global online platform. It has details of each programme’s modules, selection process and application deadlines.
What’s more, we offer Santander Open Academy users free content to help enhance their job skills.
These are some of the courses we have open at the moment: