15 Best Forecasting Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Forecasting courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including Macquarie University, University of Michigan and Duke University. 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 "forecasting" 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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Excel Time Series Models for Business Forecasting
Offered by Macquarie University
This course explores different time series business forecasting methods. The course covers a variety of business forecasting methods for different types of components present in time series data — level, trending, and se...
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Project Sales: Excel Forecasting Functions
Offered by Coursera
Ready to move beyond basic data entry and unlock the predictive power of Excel? This intermediate course, Project Sales: Excel Forecasting Functions, is designed for aspiring financial analysts, business planners, and da...
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AI-Powered Finance: Forecasting, Planning & Reporting
Offered by Coursera
Transform your finance career with cutting-edge Generative AI skills that top financial institutions are already using. This comprehensive program equips you with practical AI tools to automate financial reporting, optim...
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Regression & Forecasting for Data Scientists using Python
Offered by EDUCBA
This course provides comprehensive training in regression analysis and forecasting techniques for data science, emphasizing Python programming. You will master time-series analysis, forecasting, linear regression, and da...
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Valuation Techniques: Forecasting, and Performance Analysis
Offered by John Wiley & Sons
Delve into advanced valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow models, financial statement analysis, forecasting, and performance measurement. Build expertise in applying rigorous valuation frameworks to ass...
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Excel Simulation & Forecasting Techniques
Offered by EDUCBA
Master Excel simulation, forecasting, and scenario analysis techniques used for modern business decision-making. Learn how to build dynamic Excel models, automate calculations, analyze uncertainty, and generate actionabl...
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FP&A Modeling: Variance Analysis & Forecasting
Offered by IBM
By the end of this course, you will structure financial models in Excel with clean, auditable architecture, calculate and decompose budget-to-actual variances into price, volume, and mix, build variance bridges that turn...
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Statistics and Data Analysis with Excel
Offered by Macquarie University
Statistical literacy is a highly transferable professional skill. This Specialization offers a structured path from descriptive statistics to advanced predictive modelling using Microsoft Excel. Across three progressivel...
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Prediction Models with Sports Data
Offered by University of Michigan
In this course the learner will be shown how to generate forecasts of game results in professional sports using Python. The main emphasis of the course is on teaching the method of logistic regression as a way of modelin...
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Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business
Offered by Duke University
Formulate data questions, explore and visualize large datasets, and inform strategic decisions. In this Specialization, you’ll learn to frame business challenges as data questions. You’ll use powerful tools and methods s...
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Infectious Disease Modeling in Practice
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
Mathematical modeling is an increasingly widespread tool for understanding infectious disease transmission and informing public health decision making. This course provides an in depth overview of the practical uses of m...
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Practical Time Series Analysis
Offered by The State University of New York
Welcome to Practical Time Series Analysis! Many of us are "accidental" data analysts. We trained in the sciences, business, or engineering and then found ourselves confronted with data for which we have no formal analyti...
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Making Evidence-Based Strategic Decisions
Offered by University of Maryland, College Park
Turn data into decisions that drive real business impact. In this course, you'll learn how to make evidence-based strategic decisions by using data analytics, AI, and digital transformation to align people, processes, an...
$49.00listed price -
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Finance for Technical Managers
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In Finance for Technical Managers, you will explore the fundamental principles of financial management. Topics include understanding and interpreting a company’s financial statements, the time value of money and its role...
$79.00listed price -
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Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
Offered by Institute for the Future
Do you want to learn how to simulate the future more creatively and more effectively? This course is for you. Humans are the only living creatures with the ability to think about and make plans for the long- term future....
$49.00listed price
Best Forecasting 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. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Macquarie University, University of Michigan and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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