15 Best ETL Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 ETL courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including IBM and University of California, Irvine. 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
- $49.00 – $79.00
- 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 this topic 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 $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Python Project for Data Engineering
Offered by IBM
Showcase your Python skills in this Data Engineering Project! This short course is designed to apply your basic Python skills through the implementation of various techniques for gathering and manipulating data. You will...
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2
Database Design and Operational Business Intelligence
Offered by University of California, Irvine
The goal of this specialization is to provide a comprehensive and holistic view of business intelligence and its enabling technologies, including relational databases, data warehousing, descriptive statistics, data minin...
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BI Foundations with SQL, ETL and Data Warehousing
Offered by IBM
The job market for business intelligence (BI) analysts is expected to grow by23 percent from 2021 to 2031 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). This IBM specialization gives you sought-after skills employers look for when rec...
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4
Trace and Fix Data Anomalies
Offered by Coursera
Did you know that hidden data anomalies can cascade through pipelines and corrupt entire dashboards, models, and business decisions? Finding the source of a data issue quickly is essential for maintaining trustworthy ana...
$49.00listed price -
5
ETL and Data Pipelines with Shell, Airflow and Kafka
Offered by IBM
Delve into the two different approaches to converting raw data into analytics-ready data. One approach is the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process. The other contrasting approach is the Extract, Load, and Transform (EL...
$49.00listed price -
6
AWS Data Processing and Analysis
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now 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 yo...
$49.00listed price -
7
SQLite for Rust
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Use SQLite from Rust to build production-grade data tooling — the embedded, single-file SQL engine that ships in every Android phone, every iOS device, and most web browsers. You'll start with the basics of SQLite as a s...
$49.00listed price -
8
Introduction to Data Engineering on AWS
Offered by Packt
This course 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 through the co...
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9
SQL at Scale: Querying, Transforming, and Governing
Offered by Coursera
Writing a SQL query that works is a low bar. Writing queries that perform at scale, validate automatically, update safely, and integrate into auditable pipelines teams can trust — that is what production SQL engineering...
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10
Introduction to Data Engineering
Offered by IBM
Start your journey in one of the fastest growing professions today with this beginner-friendly Data Engineering course! You will be introduced to the core concepts, processes, and tools you need to know in order to get a...
$49.00listed price -
11
Extract, Transform, and Load Data
Offered by CertNexus
This course is designed for business and data professional seeking to learn the first technical phase of the data science process known as Extract, Transform and Load or ETL. Learners will be taught how to collect data f...
$49.00listed price -
12
Data Pipeline Engineering & Analytics
Offered by Coursera
Transform your data engineering capabilities with this comprehensive specialization that covers the entire analytics pipeline from data ingestion to actionable insights. You'll learn automated ETL processes, optimize SQL...
$49.00listed price -
13
Automate Data Pipelines: Schema Evolution
Offered by Coursera
Automate Data Pipelines: Schema Evolution is an intermediate course designed for data engineers, analysts, and developers looking to build robust, failure-resistant data workflows. In today's dynamic data landscape, pipe...
$49.00listed price -
14
Processing and Analyzing Big Data in AWS
Offered by Packt
This course 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 through the co...
$49.00listed price -
15
Generative AI for Data Engineers
Offered by IBM
Data Engineering is all about efficient data collection, generation, transformation and storage. Generative AI tools have the capability of making each of data engineering tasks more efficient, effective, and convenient...
$49.00listed price
Best ETL Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. 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. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including IBM and University of California, Irvine — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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