15 Best Professional Development Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Professional Development courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 10 come from a named university or institution, including University of Minnesota, Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Davis. 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 "professional development" 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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Accelerate: Professional Development with an Advanced Degree
Offered by University of Minnesota
This specialization helps graduate students, postdocs, and advanced degree holders take a strategic approach to professional development and career planning. Through four focused courses—on Individual Development Plans (...
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Professional Development for Future-Ready Leadership
Offered by Skillshare
Cultivate great leadership communication at work that evolves overtime with social practice artist and entrepreneur Musa Murchison! There’s no one way to lead at work, and how you lead will transform over time, but there...
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Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
Offered by Case Western Reserve University
This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and imp...
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The Growth Mindset
Offered by University of California, Davis
Are you interested in expanding your career, and want to be a more creative and innovative employee who embraces problems and challenges, and thrives in those circumstances? This course will help you determine if you hav...
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Decision-Making: Blending Art & Science
Offered by Dartmouth College
Why do smart people sometimes think they are right when they are very, very wrong? Our brains are designed to make quick decisions, and sometimes we miss out on what’s really going on. Knowing this, Professor Sydney Fink...
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Foundations of Trauma Informed Pedagogy
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course is aimed at anyone who is interested in trauma and education. The MOOC includes four units that cover an introduction to trauma, the trauma-informed framework, issues of equity, and ways to shift your everyda...
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Health Coaching Conversations
Offered by Imperial College London
Are you a healthcare practitioner or student in a healthcare field? Do you want to learn how to have more empowering conversations with your patients and support them to take control of their own health and wellbeing? Ar...
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Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success
Offered by IBM
Collaboration is not just the act of working together. It goes beyond that. Through collaboration, you can accomplish much more than what you would if you worked alone. Having the skills to communicate with the people yo...
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Leadership and Influence
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organ...
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The Teacher's Social and Emotional Learning
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Social and emotional learning, or SEL, programs have flourished in schools during the last decade. While this growth has been impressive, inadequate attention has been paid to teachers’ social and emotional learning. In...
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Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings
Offered by Rice University
Welcome to Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings! This course is structured in four modules, each one revolving on a topic related to the physician-patient interaction. Each module contains four les...
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Present with Purpose: Create/Deliver Effective Presentations
Offered by IBM
Knowing how to create a presentation is a powerful tool when it comes to communication. Presentations are a key part of every office or business related job and you need to have the skills to deliver a presentation that...
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Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In this Specialization, Professional IQ: Preventing Solving Problems at Work, learners use real-world dilemmas and ethical problems experienced by professionals around the world to clarify and articulate their personal v...
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Conflict Management
Offered by University of California, Irvine
Master the fundamentals of conflict resolution, harness the power of positive conflict, and hone your intercultural communication skills. In this Specialization, you’ll learn to strengthen your personal and professional...
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Graphic Design
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Welcome to Graphic Design, the second course in the Effective Communications Specialization. Over 70 different companies have provided this specialization to their employees as a resource for internal professional develo...
$79.00listed price
Best Professional Development Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accelerate: Professional Development with an Advanced Degree | Coursera | University of Minnesota | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Professional Development for Future-Ready Leadership | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change | Coursera | Case Western Reserve University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | The Growth Mindset | Coursera | University of California, Davis | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Decision-Making: Blending Art & Science | Coursera | Dartmouth College | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Foundations of Trauma Informed Pedagogy | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Health Coaching Conversations | Coursera | Imperial College London | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Leadership and Influence | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 10 | The Teacher's Social and Emotional Learning | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $79.00 | View → |
| 11 | Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings | Coursera | Rice University | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Present with Purpose: Create/Deliver Effective Presentations | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 14 | Conflict Management | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Graphic Design | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $79.00 | 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 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. 10 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Minnesota, Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Davis — 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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