6 Best Positive Psychology Courses on Coursera
We compared 6 Positive Psychology courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $29.00 to $99.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including University of Pennsylvania, University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Santa Cruz. 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
- 6
- Price range
- $29.00 – $99.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "positive psychology" 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 $29.00 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Foundations of Positive Psychology
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman welcome you to Foundations of Positive Psychology. Our five-course specialization provides you with the key theories and research in the field of positive psych...
$79.00listed price -
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Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life with Dr. Karen Reivich. In this course, you are exposed to the foundational research in resilience, including protective factors...
$99.00listed price -
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Creating an Intentional Life: Attention, Values, and Purpose
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Creating an Intentional Life equips learners with evidence-based frameworks for designing a life aligned with their values, reclaiming attention in a distraction-driven world, and leading themselves with clarity and purp...
$49.00listed price -
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The Career Design Lab: Change your Job, Change your Life
Offered by University of California, Santa Cruz
If your work isn’t fulfilling, now is the time to change direction and design a life you love. This course is for people at any life stage who want a job they enjoy and a career aligned with their values. If you’re langu...
$49.00listed price -
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Build Healthy Habits With Latest Neuroscience Research
Offered by Alex Genadinik
Learn fundamental and Scientific ways of looking at habits, and learn about concepts like habit strength, discipline, procedural memory identity-based goals, and Neuroplasticity as they relate to building strong and heal...
$49.00listed price -
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Trabajar para ser feliz
Offered by Universidad Austral
En nuestra vida diaria nos movemos a toda velocidad por diferentes escenarios: la familia, el trabajo, la vida social. Muchas veces podemos quedar atrapados en la vorágine o en la rutina del día a día y olvidarnos de alg...
$29.00listed price
Best Positive Psychology Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Foundations of Positive Psychology | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $79.00 | View → |
| 2 | Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $99.00 | View → |
| 3 | Creating an Intentional Life: Attention, Values, and Purpose | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | The Career Design Lab: Change your Job, Change your Life | Coursera | University of California, Santa Cruz | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Build Healthy Habits With Latest Neuroscience Research | Coursera | Alex Genadinik | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Trabajar para ser feliz | Coursera | Universidad Austral | $29.00 | 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 6 priced courses on this page run from $29.00 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $70.00. 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. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Pennsylvania, University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Santa Cruz — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.