15 Best Data Structures Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Data Structures courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $99.00. 5 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $99.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "data structures" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithms
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, searching, and indexing....
$79.00listed price -
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Data Structures and Algorithms
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Welcome to the Data Structures and Algorithms course! Dive into the essential principles and techniques that form the backbone of computer science and software development. This comprehensive course explores the efficien...
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Unordered Data Structures
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Unordered Data Structures course covers the data structures and algorithms needed to implement hash tables, disjoint sets and graphs. These fundamental data structures are useful for unordered data. For example, a ha...
$79.00listed price -
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Data Structures
Offered by University of California San Diego
A good algorithm usually comes together with a set of good data structures that allow the algorithm to manipulate the data efficiently. In this online course, we consider the common data structures that are used in vario...
$79.00listed price -
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Advanced Data Structures, RSA and Quantum Algorithms
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Introduces number-theory based cryptography, basics of quantum algorithms and advanced data-structures. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Masters of Science in Computer Science (MS-CS)...
$99.00listed price -
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Object Oriented Java Programming: Data Structures and Beyond
Offered by University of California San Diego
This Specialization covers intermediate topics in software development. You’ll learn object-oriented programming principles that will allow you to use Java to its full potential, and you’ll implement data structures and...
$49.00listed price -
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Data Structures for Designers Using Python
Offered by University of Michigan
In Data Structures for Designers Using Python, you’ll delve into the critical concepts of data structures and object-oriented programming, tailored specifically for design and visual content creation applications. You’ll...
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BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners: Data Structures
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course provides an in-depth exploration of Python’s four built-in data structures: lists, tuples, sets, and dictionaries. Each structure will be introduced in detail, focusing on how to create, access, and manipulat...
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Python Fundamentals: Apply Data Structures
Offered by EDUCBA
Master the fundamentals of Python data structures and build practical programming skills for organizing, manipulating, and analysing data. In Master Python Fundamentals: Analyze & Apply Data Structures, you will progress...
$49.00listed price -
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Java: Data Structures and Algorithms
Offered by Codio
This specialization is intended for people with an intermediate understanding of Java. These topics include basic syntax, control structures, loops, methods, and object-oriented programming. The skills in this specializa...
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Master Data Structures & Algo – Ace Leetcode & Blind 75+
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
$49.00listed price -
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Choose Optimal Data Structures for ML
Offered by Coursera
Poor data structure selection causes 60% of ML performance bottlenecks, making architecture choices highly critical. This course equips Java developers to build high-performance ML data processing systems that handle ent...
$49.00listed price -
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C++ Data Structures in the STL
Offered by Coursera
In this project you will read weather data from a file and populate a C++ Vector with the file data. The data is then uniquified in a Set data structure and stored in a Map for accessing data by year. C++'s standard temp...
$9.99listed price -
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Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
$49.00listed price -
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Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
Offered by Packt
Unlock the power of algorithms and data structures with this comprehensive course. Begin your journey by mastering essential concepts such as Big O notation, space complexity, and recursion. Through clear explanations an...
$49.00listed price
Best Data Structures Courses on Coursera compared
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What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $89.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 5 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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