Automation Anywhere University is the training arm of one of the two or three major RPA vendors, offering free courses on its own platform with paid certifications on top. It follows the model UiPath established, and comparing the two is the most useful way to evaluate it, since anyone approaching this is usually choosing an ecosystem rather than a course. The good parts are real. Course material is free, learning paths are organised by role, and the developer, business analyst and administrator tracks each cover what someone in that position needs.
Practice environments are provided so you can work in the actual product rather than watching someone else use it, which is the minimum bar for automation training and one that plenty of vendor courses fail to clear. The document automation and AI modules have had recent attention and cover intelligent document processing, extraction confidence and validation workflows at a reasonable level. The agentic process automation material exists and covers the newer product direction. Certifications are recognised inside the ecosystem and do help with roles at organisations that have standardised on the platform.
Where it falls short is mostly in comparison. UiPath Academy is better sequenced, better produced and deeper. Its exercises are more demanding, its learning plans have a clearer sense of progression, and its content is more consistently maintained. Automation Anywhere University is perfectly adequate and it is the second best free RPA education, and if you have a free choice about which ecosystem to invest in, that difference should influence you.
Course discovery on the platform is poor. Finding the right path is harder than it should be, search returns unhelpful results, and the relationship between courses, learning paths and certification requirements is not always clearly presented. Progress tracking has been unreliable in my experience. These are small frictions individually and they add up across a thirty hour learning path.
The lock in point applies here as it does to all vendor training, and more sharply because Automation Anywhere has a smaller market share than UiPath. You will learn Control Room, Bot Creator and the platform's specific idioms. Transfer to another automation tool is partial: the underlying ideas about process decomposition, exception handling, queue management and human escalation do generalise, and the vocabulary and the mechanics do not. With a smaller installed base, the number of jobs where this specific knowledge is directly valuable is correspondingly smaller.
The agentic AI content is the weakest section and I want to be direct about it. There is a great deal of language about agents and autonomous processes that, read carefully, describes conditional workflow logic with a model call in it. Some of that is genuinely new capability and some is repositioning of existing product, and the training does not help you tell which is which. UiPath's equivalent material is more substantive on the actual design questions, particularly around evaluation and escalation.
Certification exams cost money, which is standard and fair, and the free content is clearly structured to lead there. Worth budgeting for if the certificate is the point. My three point five is for free, adequate, product-specific training that does what it needs to do without distinction. If your employer runs Automation Anywhere, work through the relevant path and take the certification.
If you are deciding where to spend your learning time in automation, go to UiPath Academy instead, and consider whether either is a better use of six months than learning to build automations in code.