15 Best Rust Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Rust courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Duke 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
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- 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 "rust" 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 $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Rust Programming
Offered by Duke University
This comprehensive Rust Specialization from Coursera and Duke University, a top Data Science and AI program, provides software engineers, data scientists, and technical professionals with applied skills to leverage Rust’...
$49.00listed price -
2
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...
$49.00listed price -
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Rust for Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)
Offered by Duke University
Do you aspire to be a Rust developer at the forefront of the AI revolution? This groundbreaking course is designed specifically to train you in Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) using Rust. This course doesn't jus...
$49.00listed price -
4
Building Rust AWS Lambda Microservices with Cargo Lambda
Offered by Duke University
In this project, you will learn how to build an AWS Lambda function with Rust using Cargo Lambda. We will create a simple "Marco Polo" Lambda that responds with "Polo" when it receives "Marco" in the request. You will le...
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5
Learn to Code with Rust
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
6
Rust Programming Essentials: Unit 1
Offered by Pearson
Designed for aspiring developers and seasoned programmers alike, this course offers a deep dive into the fundamentals of Rust, a language renowned for its performance and safety. Through engaging lessons and hands-on exe...
$49.00listed price -
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Rust Programming Essentials: Unit 4
Offered by Pearson
This course is meticulously designed for programmers who are ready to elevate their Rust skills to the next level. Through engaging lessons, you will delve into the intricacies of traits, generics, multithreading, and mo...
$49.00listed price -
8
SQLite for Rust
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Use SQLite from Rust to build production-grade data tooling — the embedded, single-file SQL engine that ships in every Android phone, every iOS device, and most web browsers. You'll start with the basics of SQLite as a s...
$49.00listed price -
9
Rust Basics and Core Concepts
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
10
Rust Programming Masterclass from Beginner to Expert
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
11
Rust DataOps: CI/CD and Containers for Data Pipelines
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
e.g. This is primarily aimed at first- and second-year undergraduates interested in engineering or science, along with high school students and professionals with an interest in programming.Master modern DataOps practice...
$49.00listed price -
12
Rust From Zero
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Learn Rust from the ground up — the systems language that gives you C-level speed without the footguns and Python-level safety without a garbage collector. This course starts with `rustup`, `cargo`, and your first `Hello...
$49.00listed price -
13
Rust for Beginners: Building Target Proximity Game
Offered by Coursera
In this 2-hour long project-based course, we will focus on handling API responses fetched from a given RPC URL. Then we are going to build a target proximity game which can act as a foundation layer for big projects like...
$9.99listed price -
14
Craft an AutoGPT Gen AI Instrument with Rust & GPT-4
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
15
Rust for Data Engineering
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Rust for Data Engineering is a hands-on specialization that teaches you how to build production-grade data systems in Rust — from terminal tools and ETL pipelines to serverless functions, SQL and NoSQL data stores, and f...
$49.00listed price
Best Rust 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 $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. 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. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Duke University — 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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