15 Best Python Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Python courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $158.00. 11 come from a named university or institution, including The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Michigan and Google. 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 – $158.00
- 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 "python" 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 $158.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis
Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Course Overview: https://youtu.be/JgFV5qzAYno Python is now becoming the number 1 programming language for data science. Due to python’s simplicity and high readability, it is gaining its importance in the financial indu...
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Applied Social Network Analysis in Python
Offered by University of Michigan
This course will introduce the learner to network analysis through tutorials using the NetworkX library. The course begins with an understanding of what network analysis is and motivations for why we might model phenomen...
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Python Fundamentals for Designers
Offered by University of Michigan
Python Fundamentals for Designers is an introduction to programming using Python meant for students interested in how programming is applied to visual applications and design. The course introduces the foundations of pro...
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Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python/Rhinoscript
Offered by University of Michigan
Why should a designer learn to code? As our world is increasingly impacted by the use of algorithms, designers must learn how to use and create design computing programs. Designers must go beyond the narrowly focused use...
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Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python
Offered by Google
This is the seventh course in the Google Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, learners will be introduced to the Python programming language and learn how to apply it to a security setting to automate tasks. First,...
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BiteSize Python: Data Visualization
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course focuses on data visualization, an essential skill for effectively communicating insights derived from data. It introduces three widely used Python packages: Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly, each known for its...
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BiteSize Python for Absolute Beginners: Flow Controls
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course focuses on mastering Python’s control flow mechanisms, including branching, looping, and functions. It covers essential concepts such as making decisions with if, if-else, and if-elif-else structures (branchi...
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Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL
Offered by IBM
Data science is one of the hottest professions of the decade, and the demand for data scientists who can analyze data and communicate results to inform data driven decisions has never been greater. This Specialization fr...
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AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python
Offered by Vanderbilt University
Master the Art of Building Intelligent Python Agents That Think, Reason, and Act Unlock the full potential of Python for creating autonomous AI agents that solve complex problems without constant human direction. In this...
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Accounting Data Analytics with Python
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course focuses on developing Python skills for assembling business data. It will cover some of the same material from Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, but in a more general purpose progra...
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Introduction to Python for Researchers
Offered by Imperial College London
This course teaches the fundamentals of Python 3 in the context of academic research. Our tutor team support researchers across the whole of Imperial College London, including in science, engineering, mathematics, comput...
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Introduction to Programming with Python and Java
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
This Specialization starts out by teaching basic concepts in Python and ramps up to more complex subjects such as object-oriented programming and data structures in Java. By the time learners complete this series of four...
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Using Python to Access Web Data
Offered by University of Michigan
This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This...
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Python and Rust with Linux Command Line Tools
Offered by Duke University
This course is designed for beginners and those with some programming experience in either Python or Rust that want to implement automation and utilities in the command-line. Although no prior knowledge of Python or Rust...
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Introduction to Python
Offered by Arizona State University
In today’s society, uses for new technologies are broadening in scope and revolutionizing the world. Many new technologies automate redundant tasks so people may complete tasks of greater priority. These new automated te...
$49.00listed price
Best Python 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 $158.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $109.00. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 11 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Michigan and Google — 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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