25 Best Policy Analysis Courses Online
We compared 25 Policy Analysis courses currently listed on Coursera and edX, priced from $25.00 to $189.00. 20 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University and O.P. Jindal Global 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
- 25
- Price range
- $25.00 – $189.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX
- Last updated
- 5 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, matched to "policy analysis" 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 $25.00 to $189.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Assisting Public Sector Decision Makers With Policy Analysis
Offered by University of Michigan
Develop data analysis skills that support public sector decision-makers by performing policy analysis through all phases of the policymaking process. You will learn how to apply data analysis techniques to the core publi...
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Global Forex & Macroeconomic Policy Analysis
Offered by EDUCBA
Master global macroeconomic analysis and forex market dynamics to understand how policy decisions impact currency movements. Learn how to interpret economic data and central bank actions across major economies. This cour...
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edX MOOC / Non-creditPublic Policy Analysis
Offered by LSE
Gain analytical frameworks and practical skills for analysing, evaluating, and communicating public policy.
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Systems Thinking In Public Health
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course provides an introduction to systems thinking and systems models in public health. Problems in public health and health policy tend to be complex with many actors, institutions and risk factors involved. If an...
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Complexity and Public Policy
Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University
Complex public policy challenges rarely have simple solutions. This course helps you develop the systems thinking and analytical skills needed to understand wicked problems, navigate uncertainty, and design more effectiv...
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Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design
Offered by University of Toronto
Current conversations about diversity & inclusion often forget that these are not just HR issues but affect how products, services, processes & policies create outcomes that differ by gender, race, differences in ability...
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Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
Offered by Lund University
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between t...
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History of Medical Cannabis
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This History of Medical Cannabis course is designed to have you think critically about past, present, and future research on the health effects of cannabis by developing a more nuanced understanding of the barriers to re...
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Indigenous Canada
Offered by University of Alberta
Indigenous Canada is a 12-module course from the Faculty of Native Studies (University of Alberta). Through interdisciplinary lenses, this course invites you to build foundational knowledge about Indigenous histories and...
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Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders course is designed to have you think critically about the health effects of cannabis (i.e., marijuana) in the context of several mental health and neurocognitive disorder...
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Global Diplomacy: the United Nations in the World
Offered by SOAS University of London & University of London
The course offers a well-researched and broad-ranging primer to the United Nations system. Consisting of an introduction to the complex UN family and its history, and a series of ‘snapshots’ of key UN functions, which ar...
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Agriculture, Economics and Nature
Offered by University of Western Australia
Sound economic thinking is crucial for farmers because they depend on good economic decision making to survive. Governments depend on economic information to make good policy decisions on behalf of the community. This co...
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Theories of Public Policy
Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University
Understand how public policy is shaped, implemented, and evaluated—and develop the frameworks to analyze real-world policy challenges. This course is designed for learners interested in government, governance, public adm...
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Gender Analytics for Innovation
Offered by University of Toronto
Gender Analytics is a way to analyze your products, services, processes and policies with a gender lens to uncover hidden opportunities for innovation and effectiveness. We'll answer questions such as: Why are women 47%...
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Water Resources Management and Policy
Offered by University of Geneva
Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water c...
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Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models
Offered by Institute for Capacity Development
This online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Research Department, explains how to analyze the relation between public investment, growth, and public debt dynamics, using two dynamic str...
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The Korean Economic Development
Offered by Yonsei University
You will review the evolution of the Korean economy decade by decade since Korea’s independence from Japan in 1945. Major policies of each decade will be explained and their effect on the Korean economy will be analyzed....
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Trade & investment: evidence-based policies for development
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam
This MOOC prepares students that want to analyse trade and investment policies of developing countries and emerging markets. We couch you for the task of giving evidence-based policy. For students interested in policy ad...
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Microeconomics: When Markets Fail
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated. But real markets are imperfect. In this course we will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible rem...
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Generative AI HR Professional
Offered by Vanderbilt University
This specialization teaches HR professionals how to use generative AI through proven prompting patterns that transform complex hiring processes, create personalized employee development plans, improve workplace communica...
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African cities : An Introduction to Urban Planning
Offered by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
This course teached the basics of urban planning in Africa through technical, environmental, social and economical dimensions. It focuses on African cities only. Although, they exemplify well cities in the Global South,...
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Wetland Science and Conservation
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This specialization provides a comprehensive exploration of wetland science, covering ecological principles, human impacts, regulatory frameworks, and conservation strategies. Learners will develop skills in wetland deli...
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Immigration and Labour Markets in Economic History
Offered by University of Bayreuth
Do immigrants lower the wages of low-skilled workers? How quickly do immigrants integrate into the labour market and what policies foster integration? Explore these questions from the perspective of economic history, usi...
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Menstruation in a Global Context: Addressing Policy and Practice
Offered by Columbia University
Recently, menstruation has attracted attention as an important public health issue, resulting in the proliferation of new research, programs, and policies aimed at tackling menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) challenges f...
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Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy
Offered by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
This course provides a basic understanding of the overall components of economies which tend to be the key factor for taking decisions in a large scale. The course deals with theoretical models of Consumption, Savings, I...
$189.00listed price
Best Policy Analysis Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assisting Public Sector Decision Makers With Policy Analysis | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Global Forex & Macroeconomic Policy Analysis | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Public Policy Analysis | edX | LSE | — | View → |
| 4 | Systems Thinking In Public Health | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Complexity and Public Policy | Coursera | O.P. Jindal Global University | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Gender Analytics: Gender Equity through Inclusive Design | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia | Coursera | Lund University | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | History of Medical Cannabis | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Indigenous Canada | Coursera | University of Alberta | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Cannabis, Mental Health, and Brain Disorders | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Global Diplomacy: the United Nations in the World | Coursera | SOAS University of London & University of London | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Agriculture, Economics and Nature | Coursera | University of Western Australia | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Theories of Public Policy | Coursera | O.P. Jindal Global University | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Gender Analytics for Innovation | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Water Resources Management and Policy | Coursera | University of Geneva | $49.00 | View → |
| 16 | Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models | edX | Institute for Capacity Development | $25.00 | View → |
| 17 | The Korean Economic Development | Coursera | Yonsei University | $49.00 | View → |
| 18 | Trade & investment: evidence-based policies for development | Coursera | Erasmus University Rotterdam | $49.00 | View → |
| 19 | Microeconomics: When Markets Fail | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $49.00 | View → |
| 20 | Generative AI HR Professional | Coursera | Vanderbilt University | $49.00 | View → |
| 21 | African cities : An Introduction to Urban Planning | Coursera | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | $49.00 | View → |
| 22 | Wetland Science and Conservation | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 23 | Immigration and Labour Markets in Economic History | edX | University of Bayreuth | $79.00 | View → |
| 24 | Menstruation in a Global Context: Addressing Policy and Practice | edX | Columbia University | $50.00 | View → |
| 25 | Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy | edX | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | $189.00 | View → |
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 24 priced courses on this page run from $25.00 to $189.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $164.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. 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 and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 20 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University and O.P. Jindal Global University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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