9 Best Quantum Mechanics Courses on Coursera
We compared 9 Quantum Mechanics courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Dartmouth College and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 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
- 9
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "quantum mechanics" 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 $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Quantum Mechanics
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Course 2 of Statistical Thermodynamics presents an introduction to quantum mechanics at a level appropriate for those with mechanical or aerospace engineering backgrounds. Using a postulatory approach that describes the...
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Quantum Mechanics for Engineers
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This Specialization is intended for engineers seeking to acquire fundamental understanding of quantum mechanics which are the basis of modern electrical, mechanical and quantum engineering. Through 3 courses, you will le...
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Question Reality: Matter
Offered by Dartmouth College
In this course, you'll explore the evolution of our understanding of the atom, tracing back to ancient Greece and highlighting pivotal discoveries throughout the 20th century. You'll also gain insights into modern concep...
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Understanding Modern Physics III: Simplicity and Complexity
Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The 20th century was known as the century of physics. In the past 120 years, concepts such as space, time, energy, entropy and particles were understood to much deeper levels. New paradigms of thinking such as relativity...
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The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Offered by The University of Edinburgh
The discovery of a new fundamental particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is the latest step in a long quest seeking to answer one of physics’ most enduring questions: why do particles have mass? The experimen...
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Electrodynamics: Electric and Magnetic Fields
Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
This course is a continuation of Electrodynamics: An Introduction and Electrodynamics: Analysis of Electric Fields. Here, we will introduce magnetostatics and relate it to the material we learned previously. In addition,...
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Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons
Offered by École Polytechnique
This course gives you access to basic tools and concepts to understand research articles and books on modern quantum optics. You will learn about quantization of light, formalism to describe quantum states of light witho...
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Density Functional Theory
Offered by École Polytechnique
The aim of this course is to give a thorough introduction to Density Functional Theory (DFT). DFT is today the most widely used method to study interacting electrons, and its applicability ranges from atoms to solid syst...
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Exploring Quantum Physics
Offered by University of Maryland, College Park
An introduction to quantum physics with emphasis on topics at the frontiers of research, and developing understanding through exercise.
$49.00listed price
Best Quantum Mechanics Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Quantum Mechanics | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Quantum Mechanics for Engineers | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Question Reality: Matter | Coursera | Dartmouth College | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Understanding Modern Physics III: Simplicity and Complexity | Coursera | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | The Discovery of the Higgs Boson | Coursera | The University of Edinburgh | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Electrodynamics: Electric and Magnetic Fields | Coursera | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Quantum Optics 1 : Single Photons | Coursera | École Polytechnique | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Density Functional Theory | Coursera | École Polytechnique | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Exploring Quantum Physics | Coursera | University of Maryland, College Park | $49.00 | 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 9 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. 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. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Dartmouth College and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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